Orlando International in December 2023

76.0%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 December 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 15,112 domestic departures from Orlando International (MCO). 76.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 78.2% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.1% of flights departed on time and 83.8% arrived on time, so MCO departures were 7.1 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at MCO that month were on time 77.4% of the time (15,125 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 43%, air carrier 39% and national aviation system 17%.

On time 78.2%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 21.3%
Cancelled 0.3%
Diverted 0.2%

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

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

Measure	Dec 2023	Year earlier	MCO, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Dec 2023
Departed on time	76.0%	—	72.3%	83.1%
Arrived on time	78.2%	—	73.0%	83.8%
Cancelled	0.3%	—	1.7%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	15.4 min	—	19.6 min	11.6 min
Scheduled departures a day	504	—	440	19,013
Scheduled departures	15,112	—	160,601	570,394

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	4,068	27%	77.6%	5.7 min	0.6%
NK Spirit Airlines	2,382	16%	71.5%	11.6 min	0.6%
F9 Frontier Airlines	1,976	13%	75.5%	9.5 min	0.2%
DL Delta Air Lines	1,926	13%	87.5%	-4.4 min	0.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways	1,706	11%	71.5%	13.1 min	0.3%
AA American Airlines	1,554	10%	80.8%	3.8 min	0.1%
UA United Airlines	1,219	8%	87.2%	-1.4 min	0.1%
AS Alaska Airlines	281	2%	87.5%	-8.7 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MCO–ATL	Orlando to Atlanta	821	81.2%	4.9 min	0.2%
MCO–EWR	Orlando to Newark	706	80.7%	4.0 min	0.1%
MCO–SJU	Orlando to San Juan	571	69.0%	11.9 min	0.2%
MCO–PHL	Orlando to Philadelphia	551	77.1%	9.6 min	0.4%
MCO–BWI	Orlando to Baltimore	534	79.6%	3.8 min	0.4%
MCO–CLT	Orlando to Charlotte	494	82.2%	3.9 min	0.4%
MCO–BOS	Orlando to Boston	491	77.4%	4.2 min	0.6%
MCO–DCA	Orlando to Washington	483	78.5%	9.5 min	0.2%
MCO–ORD	Orlando to Chicago	462	76.4%	4.3 min	0.2%
MCO–LGA	Orlando to New York	461	82.0%	1.7 min	0.0%
MCO–DFW	Orlando to Dallas/Fort Worth	450	74.2%	6.5 min	0.2%
MCO–JFK	Orlando to New York	413	74.3%	13.8 min	0.7%

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), December 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Dec 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	38.5%	37.1%	73,519
Late-arriving aircraft	43.3%	38.8%	82,573
National Aviation System	16.7%	17.6%	31,954
Extreme weather	0.8%	6.2%	1,561
Security	0.7%	0.3%	1,280

190,887 delay minutes on 3,214 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 December 2023?

76.0% of 15,112 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 78.2% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.1% and 83.8%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

December 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 December 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.