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MCO to ORF flight delays

Orlando, FL (MCO) Norfolk, VA (ORF) · 655 miles

808 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics

72.67%

Arrived on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

3.09%

Cancelled

Share of scheduled flights

58 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

Which airline you fly changes the odds here. Frontier Airlines arrived on time 21.8 points more often than Spirit Airlines over the same period on the same route — same airports, same weather, same air traffic control. A gap that survives all of that is about how the two airlines are run.

The season swings this route hard. In September it ran 42.8 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: 3.09% 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 11.1 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.

Which airline should you fly on this route?

Over January 2025 – August 2026, Frontier Airlines arrived on time most often on MCO to ORF. Spirit Airlines was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in September and worst in March.

Every airline on MCO to ORF

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
Southwest Airlines 382 75.6% 1.31% 47 min C
Spirit Airlines 244 60.35% 6.97% 63 min F
Frontier Airlines 182 82.12% 1.65% 78 min C

Month by month

Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.

Jul 2025 peak 93 Jun 2026
On-time arrival rate, %

Common questions

Are flights from Orlando to Norfolk usually delayed?

72.67% of flights on the MCO to ORF route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 3 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.

Which airline is most on time from Orlando to Norfolk?

Frontier Airlines, at 82.12% on time across 182 flights. The least punctual on the route was Spirit Airlines at 60.35%.

How often are MCO to ORF flights cancelled?

3.09% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 31 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 Norfolk?

September, when 93.5% of flights arrived on time. The worst was March at 50.7%.

When MCO to ORF flights are late, how late are they?

About 58 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 ORF during January 2025 – August 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 →