Orlando International in March 2024

69.0%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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 15,650 domestic departures from Orlando International (MCO). 69.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 66.9% reached their destination on time; 1.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so MCO departures were 9.5 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at MCO that month were on time 68.4% of the time (15,654 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 44%, air carrier 29% and national aviation system 25%.

On time 66.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 31.4%
Cancelled 1.5%
Diverted 0.2%

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

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

Measure	Mar 2024	Year earlier	MCO, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	69.0%	—	72.3%	78.5%
Arrived on time	66.9%	—	73.0%	78.3%
Cancelled	1.5%	—	1.7%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	23.8 min	—	19.6 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	522	—	440	19,726
Scheduled departures	15,650	—	160,601	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	4,449	28%	64.6%	19.2 min	2.4%
NK Spirit Airlines	2,488	16%	62.9%	18.9 min	1.4%
DL Delta Air Lines	1,980	13%	74.5%	13.2 min	0.2%
F9 Frontier Airlines	1,962	13%	66.2%	20.9 min	2.1%
AA American Airlines	1,627	10%	69.1%	20.3 min	0.7%
B6 JetBlue Airways	1,534	10%	61.3%	26.5 min	1.7%
UA United Airlines	1,339	9%	75.4%	9.5 min	0.9%
AS Alaska Airlines	271	2%	68.3%	17.1 min	0.4%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MCO–ATL	Orlando to Atlanta	819	67.8%	18.3 min	1.3%
MCO–EWR	Orlando to Newark	626	70.8%	12.0 min	1.8%
MCO–ORD	Orlando to Chicago	542	72.5%	14.2 min	0.9%
MCO–SJU	Orlando to San Juan	533	69.0%	17.8 min	0.9%
MCO–PHL	Orlando to Philadelphia	530	66.6%	20.5 min	1.1%
MCO–BWI	Orlando to Baltimore	498	69.9%	14.6 min	2.2%
MCO–CLT	Orlando to Charlotte	494	66.2%	20.7 min	0.6%
MCO–LGA	Orlando to New York	487	68.2%	15.5 min	0.8%
MCO–DFW	Orlando to Dallas/Fort Worth	484	55.8%	31.9 min	1.9%
MCO–BOS	Orlando to Boston	470	72.8%	18.7 min	1.9%
MCO–DCA	Orlando to Washington	467	76.0%	11.3 min	1.1%
MCO–DEN	Orlando to Denver	461	67.5%	19.1 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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	29.3%	32.1%	107,866
Late-arriving aircraft	43.5%	42.1%	159,914
National Aviation System	24.5%	21.4%	90,312
Extreme weather	2.3%	4.2%	8,347
Security	0.4%	0.2%	1,548

367,987 delay minutes on 4,910 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 March 2024?

69.0% of 15,650 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 66.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

March 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 March 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.