OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Louisville to Orlando

718 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on SDF–MCO arrive on time 82% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate82%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay35 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.4%of scheduled flights

based on 712 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time82%
    Medianon time
    p9035 min
    Cancel1.4%
    Flights712

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline20%
  • Weather1%
  • Air traffic (NAS)28%
  • Late aircraft51%
  • 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 SDF → MCO

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

Best time of day

Middays are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 84% on time.

  • Middays84% on time · p90 25 min · 455 flights
  • Mornings80% on time · p90 35 min · 1,395 flights
  • Afternoons71% on time · p90 60 min · 201 flights
  • Evenings69% on time · p90 60 min · 619 flights
  • Overnights54% on time · p90 100 min · 76 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 71% to 82% on time.

  • Tuesdays82% on time · p90 30 min · 348 flights
  • Wednesdays80% on time · p90 40 min · 336 flights
  • Fridays79% on time · p90 40 min · 377 flights
  • Mondays77% on time · p90 40 min · 378 flights
  • Thursdays76% on time · p90 35 min · 386 flights
  • Saturdays75% on time · p90 55 min · 487 flights
  • Sundays71% on time · p90 55 min · 434 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.