Orlando International in October 2023

80.5%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 October 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 13,927 domestic departures from Orlando International (MCO). 80.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 81.5% reached their destination on time; 0.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.8% of flights departed on time and 84.0% arrived on time, so MCO departures were 3.3 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at MCO that month were on time 81.9% of the time (13,936 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 43%, late-arriving aircraft 41% and national aviation system 15%.

On time 81.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 17.8%
Cancelled 0.6%
Diverted 0.1%

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

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

Measure	Oct 2023	Year earlier	MCO, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Oct 2023
Departed on time	80.5%	—	72.3%	83.8%
Arrived on time	81.5%	—	73.0%	84.0%
Cancelled	0.6%	—	1.7%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	12.3 min	—	19.6 min	11.0 min
Scheduled departures a day	464	—	440	19,966
Scheduled departures	13,927	—	160,601	598,968

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	3,731	27%	81.2%	3.4 min	0.2%
NK Spirit Airlines	2,500	18%	76.4%	6.3 min	2.4%
F9 Frontier Airlines	1,819	13%	76.0%	6.9 min	0.4%
DL Delta Air Lines	1,696	12%	91.6%	-6.4 min	0.1%
AA American Airlines	1,516	11%	85.9%	4.2 min	0.2%
B6 JetBlue Airways	1,407	10%	74.3%	10.9 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	1,072	8%	89.4%	-5.2 min	0.2%
AS Alaska Airlines	186	1%	87.1%	-2.6 min	0.5%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MCO–ATL	Orlando to Atlanta	779	83.1%	4.3 min	0.5%
MCO–EWR	Orlando to Newark	575	88.2%	-7.3 min	0.9%
MCO–PHL	Orlando to Philadelphia	554	82.9%	1.0 min	1.3%
MCO–CLT	Orlando to Charlotte	516	81.6%	6.8 min	0.4%
MCO–LGA	Orlando to New York	478	85.8%	-5.2 min	0.0%
MCO–SJU	Orlando to San Juan	461	78.3%	6.2 min	0.2%
MCO–BWI	Orlando to Baltimore	458	79.5%	3.9 min	0.2%
MCO–ORD	Orlando to Chicago	448	82.8%	0.3 min	1.6%
MCO–DFW	Orlando to Dallas/Fort Worth	410	78.3%	3.8 min	2.2%
MCO–BOS	Orlando to Boston	406	74.4%	13.1 min	0.2%
MCO–JFK	Orlando to New York	377	79.8%	5.9 min	0.0%
MCO–DEN	Orlando to Denver	370	85.1%	-0.5 min	0.0%

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), October 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Oct 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	42.5%	41.3%	61,229
Late-arriving aircraft	41.1%	40.5%	59,234
National Aviation System	14.9%	14.4%	21,505
Extreme weather	0.9%	3.7%	1,230
Security	0.7%	0.2%	1,003

144,201 delay minutes on 2,485 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 October 2023?

80.5% of 13,927 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 81.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.8% and 84.0%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

October 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 October 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.