OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Orlando to Birmingham

478 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on MCO–BHM arrive on time 70% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate70%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay60 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.4%of scheduled flights

based on 786 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time70%
    Medianon time
    p9060 min
    Cancel0.4%
    Flights786

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline26%
  • Weather4%
  • Air traffic (NAS)12%
  • Late aircraft57%
  • Security1%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly MCO → BHM

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

On-time rates are fairly even by time of day on this route — ranging from 48% to 90% on time.

  • Mornings90% on time · p90 10 min · 681 flights
  • Middays87% on time · p90 20 min · 267 flights
  • Afternoons68% on time · p90 70 min · 421 flights
  • Evenings64% on time · p90 70 min · 432 flights
  • Overnights48% on time · p90 90 min · 361 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 67% to 82% on time.

  • Tuesdays82% on time · p90 30 min · 281 flights
  • Wednesdays79% on time · p90 45 min · 279 flights
  • Mondays73% on time · p90 60 min · 290 flights
  • Thursdays73% on time · p90 45 min · 286 flights
  • Fridays71% on time · p90 45 min · 291 flights
  • Sundays70% on time · p90 70 min · 378 flights
  • Saturdays67% on time · p90 70 min · 357 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.