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Orlando (MCO) departure delays

12,541 departures · 83 routes · February 2025 – July 2026

71.16%

Left on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

1%

Cancelled

Share of departures

71 min

When late, late by

Average delayed departure

#93

Rank

Among graded US airports

What the record says about MCO

Departures from Orlando run late more often than average — enough that a tight connection at the far end deserves a second look.

The airlines flying from here are not equally affected. Delta Air Lines left on time 13 points more often than Southwest Airlines from the same airport — which is the clearest evidence available that a delayed departure is not purely the airport's fault.

With 40 routes in the record, MCO is a hub, and hubs carry a particular risk: a delay early in the day propagates through every aircraft that was due to fly on afterwards. Morning departures from a hub are reliably better than evening ones.

Which airlines run best out of MCO

Airline Departures On time
Delta Air Lines 1,724 81%
United Airlines 1,161 79%
Virgin Atlantic 1,528 77.2%
Frontier Airlines 1,683 74.9%
JetBlue Airways 1,649 74.5%
American Airlines 1,668 72.5%
British Airways 841 70.6%
Southwest Airlines 4,435 68%

Routes out of MCO

MCO → LGW London 806 flights · 70.57% on time D MCO → LHR London 759 flights · 77.08% on time C MCO → MAN Manchester 712 flights · 78.45% on time B MCO → ATL Atlanta 665 flights · 76.34% on time C MCO → SJU San Juan 604 flights · 75.75% on time C MCO → ORD Chicago 430 flights · 75.77% on time C MCO → DEN Denver 423 flights · 73.87% on time C MCO → EWR Newark 415 flights · 76.23% on time C MCO → DFW Dallas/Fort Worth 410 flights · 65.74% on time F MCO → PHL Philadelphia 408 flights · 71.29% on time C MCO → DCA Washington 387 flights · 73.28% on time D MCO → CLT Charlotte 378 flights · 78.46% on time B MCO → JFK New York 373 flights · 75.48% on time C MCO → BWI Baltimore 354 flights · 70.49% on time D MCO → LGA New York 345 flights · 65.17% on time D MCO → LAX Los Angeles 296 flights · 79.52% on time B MCO → AUS Austin 291 flights · 74.56% on time C MCO → BOS Boston 288 flights · 74.2% on time C MCO → BNA Nashville 286 flights · 64.79% on time D MCO → MIA Miami 264 flights · 68.7% on time D MCO → IAH Houston 257 flights · 74.12% on time C MCO → MDW Chicago 234 flights · 63.84% on time F MCO → DAL Dallas 232 flights · 60.71% on time F MCO → RDU Raleigh/Durham 220 flights · 80.37% on time B MCO → DTW Detroit 212 flights · 82.46% on time B MCO → CLE Cleveland 208 flights · 79.02% on time B MCO → STL St. Louis 204 flights · 72.91% on time C MCO → PIT Pittsburgh 195 flights · 74.23% on time — MCO → MSY New Orleans 189 flights · 68.98% on time — MCO → IND Indianapolis 187 flights · 75.82% on time — MCO → HOU Houston 176 flights · 67.05% on time — MCO → LAS Las Vegas 172 flights · 77.91% on time — MCO → IAD Washington 171 flights · 83.53% on time — MCO → CVG Cincinnati 153 flights · 72% on time — MCO → SEA Seattle 150 flights · 75.33% on time — MCO → PHX Phoenix 150 flights · 80% on time — MCO → MSP Minneapolis 147 flights · 74.15% on time — MCO → CMH Columbus 140 flights · 71.94% on time — MCO → BDL Hartford 136 flights · 80% on time — MCO → MCI Kansas City 125 flights · 62.1% on time —