Orlando International in January 2024

70.6%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 January 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 14,296 domestic departures from Orlando International (MCO). 70.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 70.9% reached their destination on time; 2.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so MCO departures were 3.4 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at MCO that month were on time 68.8% of the time (14,304 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 42%, air carrier 33% and national aviation system 21%.

On time 70.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 25.9%
Cancelled 2.9%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled departure from MCO in January 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

January 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Jan 2024	Year earlier	MCO, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time	70.6%	—	72.3%	74.0%
Arrived on time	70.9%	—	73.0%	72.9%
Cancelled	2.9%	—	1.7%	3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	20.1 min	—	19.6 min	18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	477	—	440	18,242
Scheduled departures	14,296	—	160,601	547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	3,782	26%	68.4%	11.3 min	2.1%
NK Spirit Airlines	2,182	15%	68.0%	16.1 min	1.6%
F9 Frontier Airlines	1,952	14%	70.2%	15.0 min	2.3%
DL Delta Air Lines	1,870	13%	80.4%	4.9 min	0.3%
AA American Airlines	1,579	11%	71.2%	21.5 min	1.3%
B6 JetBlue Airways	1,421	10%	74.5%	8.7 min	1.4%
UA United Airlines	1,249	9%	70.3%	10.4 min	11.5%
AS Alaska Airlines	261	2%	53.3%	9.5 min	26.8%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MCO–ATL	Orlando to Atlanta	792	74.9%	12.5 min	0.1%
MCO–EWR	Orlando to Newark	619	76.9%	1.2 min	6.9%
MCO–PHL	Orlando to Philadelphia	531	68.2%	19.9 min	1.5%
MCO–SJU	Orlando to San Juan	520	70.0%	15.7 min	0.4%
MCO–CLT	Orlando to Charlotte	499	71.3%	16.9 min	1.0%
MCO–BWI	Orlando to Baltimore	496	75.0%	8.6 min	2.0%
MCO–LGA	Orlando to New York	470	75.5%	6.3 min	1.7%
MCO–ORD	Orlando to Chicago	462	66.5%	13.7 min	6.3%
MCO–DCA	Orlando to Washington	458	76.2%	8.6 min	3.1%
MCO–DFW	Orlando to Dallas/Fort Worth	435	59.8%	30.2 min	1.1%
MCO–BOS	Orlando to Boston	423	74.9%	8.1 min	1.4%
MCO–DEN	Orlando to Denver	400	66.8%	15.1 min	3.0%

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), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	32.6%	32.6%	84,853
Late-arriving aircraft	42.2%	39.0%	109,851
National Aviation System	20.7%	17.9%	53,794
Extreme weather	3.9%	10.3%	10,270
Security	0.5%	0.2%	1,306

260,074 delay minutes on 3,702 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 January 2024?

70.6% of 14,296 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 70.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 74.0% and 72.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

January 2023 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 January 2024; 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.