Orlando International in May 2024

70.9%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 May 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 13,837 domestic departures from Orlando International (MCO). 70.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 69.3% reached their destination on time; 0.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 73.4% of flights departed on time and 72.3% arrived on time, so MCO departures were 2.5 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at MCO that month were on time 71.3% of the time (13,838 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 42%, air carrier 27% and national aviation system 25%.

On time 69.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 29.4%
Cancelled 0.9%
Diverted 0.4%

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

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

Measure	May 2024	Year earlier	MCO, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, May 2024
Departed on time	70.9%	—	72.3%	73.4%
Arrived on time	69.3%	—	73.0%	72.3%
Cancelled	0.9%	—	1.7%	1.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	22.0 min	—	19.6 min	20.8 min
Scheduled departures a day	461	—	440	20,325
Scheduled departures	13,837	—	160,601	609,743

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	3,934	28%	67.5%	18.1 min	0.7%
NK Spirit Airlines	2,183	16%	68.8%	15.9 min	0.9%
DL Delta Air Lines	1,865	13%	73.0%	14.6 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	1,536	11%	64.5%	25.0 min	1.9%
B6 JetBlue Airways	1,524	11%	68.6%	19.6 min	0.6%
F9 Frontier Airlines	1,391	10%	74.0%	8.9 min	1.6%
UA United Airlines	1,166	8%	73.0%	14.1 min	1.4%
AS Alaska Airlines	218	2%	66.5%	12.4 min	0.5%
G4 Allegiant Air	20	0%	50.0%	15.3 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MCO–ATL	Orlando to Atlanta	794	69.1%	19.6 min	0.6%
MCO–EWR	Orlando to Newark	586	73.5%	12.4 min	1.2%
MCO–SJU	Orlando to San Juan	558	74.0%	13.1 min	0.4%
MCO–CLT	Orlando to Charlotte	475	64.6%	24.3 min	2.1%
MCO–BWI	Orlando to Baltimore	455	72.5%	12.2 min	1.3%
MCO–PHL	Orlando to Philadelphia	447	67.6%	21.4 min	0.2%
MCO–ORD	Orlando to Chicago	434	66.6%	21.7 min	0.9%
MCO–DFW	Orlando to Dallas/Fort Worth	433	57.3%	31.5 min	4.4%
MCO–DCA	Orlando to Washington	430	73.3%	14.4 min	0.5%
MCO–JFK	Orlando to New York	407	66.8%	20.7 min	1.0%
MCO–DEN	Orlando to Denver	393	64.1%	16.3 min	1.5%
MCO–LGA	Orlando to New York	374	72.5%	12.1 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), May 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, May 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	27.0%	29.8%	81,782
Late-arriving aircraft	42.3%	43.0%	128,021
National Aviation System	24.6%	20.1%	74,525
Extreme weather	5.8%	7.0%	17,474
Security	0.4%	0.1%	1,110

302,912 delay minutes on 4,068 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 May 2024?

70.9% of 13,837 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 69.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 73.4% and 72.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

May 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 May 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.