MCO to TYS flight delays
Orlando, FL (MCO) Knoxville, TN (TYS) · 532 miles
234 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
70.39%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
0.43%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
65 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
20 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Which airline you fly changes the odds here. Southwest Airlines arrived on time 8.5 points more often than Allegiant Air 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 two directions do not behave alike. TYS to MCO arrives on time 10.3 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.
Flights from Orlando to Knoxville run late more often than the average route, though not severely.
This is a thin route — 234 flights across the whole period. On a route this infrequent a cancellation is far more costly than the rate suggests, because the next departure may not be the same day.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over January 2025 – August 2026, Southwest Airlines arrived on time most often on MCO to TYS. Allegiant Air was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in February and worst in October.
Every airline on MCO to TYS
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 | 118 | 74.58% | 0% | 65 min | C |
| Allegiant Air | 116 | 66.09% | 0.86% | 64 min | D |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
TYS to MCO Knoxville back to Orlando 80.7% on time COther routes from Orlando
Common questions
Are flights from Orlando to Knoxville usually delayed?
70.39% of flights on the MCO to TYS 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 Knoxville?
Southwest Airlines, at 74.58% on time across 118 flights. The least punctual on the route was Allegiant Air at 66.09%.
How often are MCO to TYS flights cancelled?
0.43% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 4 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.
When MCO to TYS flights are late, how late are they?
About 65 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 TYS 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 →