OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Sacramento to Orlando

2,408 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on SMF–MCO arrive on time 93% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate93%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay5 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.0%of scheduled flights

based on 122 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time93%
    Medianon time
    p905 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights122

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline60%
  • Weather0%
  • Air traffic (NAS)3%
  • Late aircraft37%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Airline.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly SMF → MCO

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 90% to 93% on time.

  • Overnights93% on time · p90 5 min · 152 flights · limited
  • Mornings90% on time · p90 10 min · 110 flights · limited
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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.