OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

San Diego to Orlando

2,149 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

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

On-time rate74%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay35 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.3%of scheduled flights

based on 720 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-time67%
    Median5 min
    p9035 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights92
  • Alaska Airlines
    On-time75%
    Medianon time
    p9035 min
    Cancel0.3%
    Flights628

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline22%
  • Weather4%
  • Air traffic (NAS)37%
  • Late aircraft36%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Air traffic (NAS).

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly SAN → MCO

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

Best time of day

Overnights are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 76% on time.

  • Overnights76% on time · p90 35 min · 750 flights
  • Mornings71% on time · p90 55 min · 471 flights
  • Middays68% on time · p90 50 min · 818 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 66% to 78% on time.

  • Tuesdays78% on time · p90 35 min · 279 flights
  • Mondays73% on time · p90 40 min · 300 flights
  • Saturdays72% on time · p90 45 min · 305 flights
  • Wednesdays72% on time · p90 50 min · 275 flights
  • Thursdays71% on time · p90 45 min · 303 flights
  • Sundays67% on time · p90 55 min · 308 flights
  • Fridays66% on time · p90 50 min · 305 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.