Orlando International in August 2023

66.4%departed on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In August 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 13,360 domestic departures from Orlando International (MCO). 66.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 66.2% reached their destination on time; 1.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 76.7% of flights departed on time and 76.9% arrived on time, so MCO departures were 10.3 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at MCO that month were on time 68.5% of the time (13,356 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 41%, air carrier 32% and national aviation system 19%.

On time 66.2%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 31.7%
Cancelled 1.7%
Diverted 0.4%

Every scheduled departure from MCO in August 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

August 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Aug 2023	Year earlier	MCO, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Aug 2023
Departed on time	66.4%	—	72.3%	76.7%
Arrived on time	66.2%	—	73.0%	76.9%
Cancelled	1.7%	—	1.7%	1.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	26.9 min	—	19.6 min	17.3 min
Scheduled departures a day	445	—	440	20,100
Scheduled departures	13,360	—	160,601	602,987

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	3,265	24%	73.3%	8.0 min	1.2%
NK Spirit Airlines	2,428	18%	54.0%	30.1 min	1.1%
DL Delta Air Lines	1,723	13%	76.9%	7.5 min	0.7%
F9 Frontier Airlines	1,613	12%	58.9%	27.5 min	4.0%
AA American Airlines	1,559	12%	70.3%	30.3 min	1.5%
B6 JetBlue Airways	1,535	11%	52.5%	39.7 min	3.1%
UA United Airlines	1,052	8%	77.0%	5.2 min	1.2%
AS Alaska Airlines	185	1%	81.1%	2.3 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MCO–ATL	Orlando to Atlanta	753	66.3%	22.1 min	1.9%
MCO–SJU	Orlando to San Juan	602	53.5%	29.8 min	1.7%
MCO–EWR	Orlando to Newark	582	69.2%	14.3 min	1.5%
MCO–PHL	Orlando to Philadelphia	575	58.6%	34.8 min	2.1%
MCO–BWI	Orlando to Baltimore	474	66.2%	15.2 min	3.0%
MCO–CLT	Orlando to Charlotte	466	67.2%	27.2 min	1.9%
MCO–LGA	Orlando to New York	434	65.9%	16.1 min	1.4%
MCO–JFK	Orlando to New York	431	63.6%	30.4 min	2.6%
MCO–ORD	Orlando to Chicago	430	66.5%	20.7 min	2.3%
MCO–BOS	Orlando to Boston	415	57.8%	30.7 min	1.7%
MCO–DFW	Orlando to Dallas/Fort Worth	398	65.6%	27.0 min	1.3%
MCO–DEN	Orlando to Denver	388	70.9%	10.1 min	0.8%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), August 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Aug 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	31.9%	36.7%	107,021
Late-arriving aircraft	41.0%	42.2%	137,479
National Aviation System	18.6%	15.7%	62,491
Extreme weather	7.8%	5.1%	26,242
Security	0.6%	0.2%	2,175

335,408 delay minutes on 4,241 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

How many flights left MCO on time in August 2023?

66.4% of 13,360 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 66.2% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 76.7% and 76.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

August 2022 is outside the 36 months on file, or the airport had too few reported flights that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for August 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for MCO · methodology · corrections.