Orlando International in February 2024

80.7%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 February 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 13,577 domestic departures from Orlando International (MCO). 80.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 78.7% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 84.0% of flights departed on time and 83.4% arrived on time, so MCO departures were 3.3 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at MCO that month were on time 81.3% of the time (13,573 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 40%, air carrier 35% and national aviation system 22%.

On time 78.7%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 20.8%
Cancelled 0.3%
Diverted 0.1%

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

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

Measure	Feb 2024	Year earlier	MCO, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Feb 2024
Departed on time	80.7%	—	72.3%	84.0%
Arrived on time	78.7%	—	73.0%	83.4%
Cancelled	0.3%	—	1.7%	0.6%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	12.6 min	—	19.6 min	11.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	453	—	440	17,307
Scheduled departures	13,577	—	160,601	519,221

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	3,566	26%	79.9%	5.1 min	0.1%
NK Spirit Airlines	2,137	16%	72.4%	10.9 min	0.3%
F9 Frontier Airlines	1,855	14%	79.1%	3.4 min	0.3%
DL Delta Air Lines	1,738	13%	83.6%	2.2 min	0.3%
AA American Airlines	1,497	11%	79.6%	7.2 min	0.1%
B6 JetBlue Airways	1,343	10%	72.7%	11.1 min	1.0%
UA United Airlines	1,199	9%	83.8%	1.5 min	0.4%
AS Alaska Airlines	242	2%	81.8%	-0.1 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MCO–ATL	Orlando to Atlanta	737	80.3%	5.1 min	0.1%
MCO–EWR	Orlando to Newark	578	83.7%	1.3 min	0.7%
MCO–PHL	Orlando to Philadelphia	482	75.1%	8.9 min	0.0%
MCO–CLT	Orlando to Charlotte	479	79.3%	7.1 min	0.0%
MCO–LGA	Orlando to New York	471	71.8%	8.9 min	1.1%
MCO–BWI	Orlando to Baltimore	459	77.3%	8.7 min	0.0%
MCO–ORD	Orlando to Chicago	440	82.7%	0.7 min	0.2%
MCO–BOS	Orlando to Boston	435	77.9%	6.1 min	1.4%
MCO–DCA	Orlando to Washington	434	79.0%	5.9 min	0.2%
MCO–SJU	Orlando to San Juan	429	77.2%	8.5 min	0.7%
MCO–DFW	Orlando to Dallas/Fort Worth	402	75.6%	7.4 min	0.0%
MCO–DEN	Orlando to Denver	385	76.1%	5.5 min	0.3%

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), February 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Feb 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	35.3%	35.9%	55,835
Late-arriving aircraft	39.5%	36.9%	62,498
National Aviation System	22.3%	21.7%	35,277
Extreme weather	1.4%	5.3%	2,278
Security	1.4%	0.3%	2,175

158,063 delay minutes on 2,828 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 February 2024?

80.7% of 13,577 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 78.7% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 84.0% and 83.4%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

February 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 February 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.