Orlando International in September 2023

73.4%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 September 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 12,265 domestic departures from Orlando International (MCO). 73.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 71.9% reached their destination on time; 1.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.1% arrived on time, so MCO departures were 7.1 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at MCO that month were on time 73.6% of the time (12,258 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 39%, air carrier 28% and national aviation system 21%.

On time 71.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 26.5%
Cancelled 1.3%
Diverted 0.3%

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

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

Measure	Sep 2023	Year earlier	MCO, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Sep 2023
Departed on time	73.4%	—	72.3%	80.5%
Arrived on time	71.9%	—	73.0%	80.1%
Cancelled	1.3%	—	1.7%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	22.1 min	—	19.6 min	14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day	409	—	440	18,978
Scheduled departures	12,265	—	160,601	569,338

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	2,845	23%	73.6%	11.6 min	0.4%
NK Spirit Airlines	2,292	19%	69.2%	14.6 min	1.7%
F9 Frontier Airlines	1,634	13%	67.1%	19.0 min	2.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	1,565	13%	80.3%	7.6 min	0.8%
B6 JetBlue Airways	1,386	11%	57.4%	35.4 min	2.6%
AA American Airlines	1,380	11%	76.9%	16.2 min	1.3%
UA United Airlines	983	8%	80.6%	6.4 min	1.2%
AS Alaska Airlines	180	1%	74.4%	11.4 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MCO–ATL	Orlando to Atlanta	744	78.2%	9.2 min	0.7%
MCO–PHL	Orlando to Philadelphia	548	67.3%	26.7 min	2.6%
MCO–EWR	Orlando to Newark	530	71.7%	12.8 min	2.5%
MCO–SJU	Orlando to San Juan	460	65.9%	20.8 min	0.2%
MCO–CLT	Orlando to Charlotte	435	74.3%	17.6 min	1.4%
MCO–LGA	Orlando to New York	433	64.4%	19.1 min	4.2%
MCO–BWI	Orlando to Baltimore	400	67.3%	15.0 min	2.5%
MCO–BOS	Orlando to Boston	395	62.3%	26.9 min	3.3%
MCO–JFK	Orlando to New York	389	59.4%	31.5 min	3.3%
MCO–ORD	Orlando to Chicago	373	75.6%	12.8 min	1.1%
MCO–DFW	Orlando to Dallas/Fort Worth	372	71.2%	18.5 min	1.3%
MCO–MIA	Orlando to Miami	357	77.0%	13.2 min	0.6%

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), September 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Sep 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	28.4%	36.4%	74,425
Late-arriving aircraft	39.1%	38.3%	102,392
National Aviation System	21.1%	19.9%	55,404
Extreme weather	11.1%	5.1%	29,097
Security	0.3%	0.2%	744

262,062 delay minutes on 3,254 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 September 2023?

73.4% of 12,265 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 71.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

September 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 September 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.