OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Orlando to Louisville

718 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

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

On-time rate74%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay60 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.1%of scheduled flights

based on 711 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time74%
    Medianon time
    p9060 min
    Cancel1.1%
    Flights711

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline27%
  • Weather4%
  • Air traffic (NAS)15%
  • Late aircraft54%
  • 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 → SDF

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 — 91% on time.

  • Mornings91% on time · p90 10 min · 832 flights
  • Middays81% on time · p90 35 min · 405 flights
  • Afternoons71% on time · p90 40 min · 246 flights
  • Evenings54% on time · p90 105 min · 724 flights
  • Overnights52% on time · p90 125 min · 545 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 50 min · 346 flights
  • Tuesdays75% on time · p90 60 min · 346 flights
  • Mondays72% on time · p90 75 min · 369 flights
  • Thursdays72% on time · p90 65 min · 387 flights
  • Fridays71% on time · p90 45 min · 377 flights
  • Saturdays65% on time · p90 75 min · 484 flights
  • Sundays63% on time · p90 95 min · 443 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.