MCO to ACY flight delays
Orlando, FL (MCO) Atlantic City, NJ (ACY) · 852 miles
1,366 flights · July 2024 – July 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
76.15%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
3%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
67 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
17 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
The season swings this route hard. In October it ran 49.8 points more punctual than in March — a difference bigger than the one between the best and worst airlines on most routes. If the date is flexible, it is worth more than the carrier.
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 3% of scheduled flights never operated. A late flight still gets you there. A cancelled one leaves you rebooking, and on a route with few daily departures that can mean losing a day.
The route has been getting worse. The later months run 11.7 points less punctual than the earlier ones. A drift of that size is rarely weather; it is more often an airline adding frequencies faster than the airports can absorb them.
The two directions do not behave alike. ACY to MCO arrives on time 8.9 points more often than the outbound. Delay accumulates through the flying day, so whichever direction is scheduled later tends to carry the worse record — which is an argument for booking the morning departure if the choice exists.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over July 2024 – July 2026, Spirit Airlines arrived on time most often on MCO to ACY. Flights ran closest to schedule in September and worst in March.
Every airline on MCO to ACY
Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Avg delay | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spirit Airlines | 1,366 | 76.15% | 3% | 67 min | D |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
ACY to MCO Atlantic City back to Orlando 85.03% on time COther routes from Orlando
Common questions
Are flights from Orlando to Atlantic City usually delayed?
76.15% of flights on the MCO to ACY route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 2 in every ten arrived late. That is about the same as the average route in this record.
Which airlines fly from Orlando to Atlantic City?
Only Spirit Airlines appears in the published record on this route, with 1,366 flights and 76.15% arriving on time.
How often are MCO to ACY flights cancelled?
3% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 30 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
What is the best month to fly Orlando to Atlantic City?
October, when 93.6% of flights arrived on time. The worst was March at 43.8%.
When MCO to ACY flights are late, how late are they?
About 67 minutes on average across the flights that arrived more than 15 minutes behind schedule.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on MCO to ACY during July 2024 – July 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.
A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.
Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →