OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Charlotte to Orlando

468 miData through May 2026Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on CLT–MCO arrive on time 68% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate68%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay70 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled2.1%of scheduled flights

based on 4,700 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Too close to call — no single carrier is clearly more on-time here.

  • Frontier Airlines
    On-time68%
    Medianon time
    p9085 min
    Cancel2.7%
    Flights565
  • American Airlines
    On-time68%
    Medianon time
    p9070 min
    Cancel1.8%
    Flights3,685
  • Spirit Airlines
    On-time66%
    Medianon time
    p9070 min
    Cancel3.8%
    Flights450

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline24%
  • Weather6%
  • Air traffic (NAS)26%
  • Late aircraft43%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

When flights don't go

Why flights were cancelled

  • Airline12%
  • Weather79%
  • Air traffic (NAS)9%
  • Security0%

Most cancellations here are attributed to Weather. Shares are among 99 cancellations with a reported cause (BTS reports causes from June 2003).

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly CLT → MCO

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-06 .. 2026-05).

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 85% on time.

  • Mornings85% on time · p90 25 min · 3,110 flights
  • Middays76% on time · p90 40 min · 4,004 flights
  • Afternoons64% on time · p90 85 min · 3,017 flights
  • Overnights61% on time · p90 85 min · 2,799 flights
  • Evenings59% on time · p90 100 min · 2,677 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 63% to 76% on time.

  • Wednesdays76% on time · p90 55 min · 2,045 flights
  • Tuesdays75% on time · p90 55 min · 2,001 flights
  • Mondays70% on time · p90 60 min · 2,352 flights
  • Fridays69% on time · p90 70 min · 2,360 flights
  • Saturdays68% on time · p90 65 min · 2,149 flights
  • Thursdays68% on time · p90 70 min · 2,331 flights
  • Sundays63% on time · p90 85 min · 2,374 flights

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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.