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One route, as origin and destination codes joined by a hyphen, e.g. ATL-LGA. Shows the airlines with enough flights on it, up to four.

Airlines on MCO → DCA

Every airline with at least 200 flights on this route, over the route's reporting period.

No side is clearly ahead of the rest on any of the 4 rates measured; the best figures are too close to call: American Airlines and Delta Air Lines on 1, JetBlue and Southwest Airlines on 1, Southwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines on 1, American Airlines, JetBlue, and Delta Air Lines on 1.

Airlines on MCO → DCA compared
MetricAmerican AirlinesJetBlueSouthwest AirlinesDelta Air Lines
On-time arrival · too close to call73.5% (too close to call with the best)70.8%70.7%74.9% (best, but too close to call)
Cancellation rate · too close to call2.00%1.67% (too close to call with the best)1.33% (best, but too close to call)2.55%
Severe delay (60+ min) · too close to call11.8%12.4%10.3% (best, but too close to call)11.7% (too close to call with the best)
Average arrival delay18 min16 min13 min13 min
Median arrival delay-4 min-4 min0 min-7 min (best)
Departure on-time · too close to call74.8% (too close to call with the best)75.4% (too close to call with the best)65.8%75.5% (best, but too close to call)
Flights analyzed5,8413,5923,3041,881

A check mark and green mark the best figure in a row (higher for on-time rates, lower for delays and cancellations) when it is clearly better than every other side’s: a two-proportion test against each, on that side’s flight count, at about 95% confidence. When it is not, the row says “too close to call” and a “≈” marks the sides that cannot be told apart from the best figure. Average and median delay carry no sample-error estimate here, so they are marked by the printed figure alone.

MCO → DCA (Orlando to Washington · 759 mi): July 2023 – July 2026. FlyerIntel keeps one total per airline for the route, not the dates each airline started or stopped flying it, so an airline that flew the route for only part of that time is measured over that part.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · Airlines with fewer than 200 flights on this route are left out.

Month by month

There is no month-by-month chart for these airlines. FlyerIntel keeps monthly figures for each route and for each airline across its whole network, but not for one airline on one route. The MCO → DCA route page shows the route’s own trend.