OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Orlando to Memphis

683 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on MCO–MEM arrive on time 74% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate74%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay50 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.8%of scheduled flights

based on 658 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-time73%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel1.0%
    Flights396
  • Spirit Airlines
    On-time74%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel0.4%
    Flights262

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline24%
  • Weather3%
  • Air traffic (NAS)35%
  • Late aircraft38%
  • Security0%

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 → MEM

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 54% to 85% on time.

  • Mornings85% on time · p90 20 min · 273 flights
  • Middays82% on time · p90 25 min · 357 flights
  • Evenings73% on time · p90 75 min · 397 flights
  • Afternoons71% on time · p90 65 min · 711 flights
  • Overnights54% on time · p90 100 min · 687 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 66% to 76% on time.

  • Tuesdays76% on time · p90 55 min · 276 flights
  • Wednesdays71% on time · p90 55 min · 279 flights
  • Mondays71% on time · p90 75 min · 329 flights
  • Sundays70% on time · p90 80 min · 425 flights
  • Saturdays69% on time · p90 60 min · 451 flights
  • Fridays67% on time · p90 60 min · 325 flights
  • Thursdays66% on time · p90 70 min · 340 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.