OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Norfolk to Orlando

655 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

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

On-time rate72%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay70 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.7%of scheduled flights

based on 453 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
    p9070 min
    Cancel0.3%
    Flights360
  • Spirit Airlines
    On-time73%
    Medianon time
    p9060 min
    Cancel2.2%
    Flights93

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline16%
  • Weather4%
  • Air traffic (NAS)32%
  • Late aircraft48%
  • 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 ORF → MCO

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 — 84% on time.

  • Mornings84% on time · p90 20 min · 302 flights
  • Middays76% on time · p90 45 min · 838 flights
  • Overnights71% on time · p90 80 min · 174 flights · limited
  • Afternoons70% on time · p90 70 min · 468 flights
  • Evenings62% on time · p90 105 min · 502 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 69% to 79% on time.

  • Tuesdays79% on time · p90 45 min · 270 flights
  • Wednesdays77% on time · p90 60 min · 253 flights
  • Mondays73% on time · p90 55 min · 314 flights
  • Thursdays72% on time · p90 55 min · 338 flights
  • Fridays71% on time · p90 55 min · 302 flights
  • Sundays69% on time · p90 90 min · 380 flights
  • Saturdays69% on time · p90 70 min · 427 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.