OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Orlando to Kansas City

1,072 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on MCO–MCI arrive on time 72% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate72%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay50 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.4%of scheduled flights

based on 1,426 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.

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time72%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel1.4%
    Flights1,202
  • Spirit Airlines
    On-time74%
    Medianon time
    p9060 min
    Cancel1.3%
    Flights224

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline26%
  • Weather5%
  • Air traffic (NAS)21%
  • Late aircraft47%
  • 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 → MCI

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

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 89% on time.

  • Mornings89% on time · p90 10 min · 1,311 flights
  • Middays78% on time · p90 35 min · 759 flights
  • Afternoons68% on time · p90 60 min · 951 flights
  • Overnights59% on time · p90 80 min · 1,237 flights
  • Evenings49% on time · p90 100 min · 601 flights

Best day of week

Tuesdays are the most reliable day to fly this route — 78% on time.

  • Tuesdays78% on time · p90 45 min · 617 flights
  • Wednesdays73% on time · p90 55 min · 633 flights
  • Mondays73% on time · p90 50 min · 677 flights
  • Thursdays71% on time · p90 60 min · 657 flights
  • Fridays70% on time · p90 50 min · 671 flights
  • Saturdays66% on time · p90 60 min · 870 flights
  • Sundays65% on time · p90 75 min · 734 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.