CLT → MCO Flight Reliability

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Route reliability

July 2023 – July 2026

Route Reliability Score

46/ 100Fair

Better than 10% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)

Calculated from 15,960 flights. How this is calculated

On-time arrivals

71.2%

11,135 of 15,645

Cancellation rate

1.74%

277 cancelled

Median arrival delay

-2 min

Average 16.6 min

Severe delays

11.7%

60+ minutes late

Delay when late

76 min

Average, when 15+ min late

Flights analyzed

15,960

3 carriers

CLT → MCO arrives on time 71.2% of the time; the return trip, MCO → CLT, arrives on time 77.2% of the time, a 6.0-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.

CLT → MCO spends 32.3 minutes on the ground on a 468-mile trip: 19.3 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at CLT and 13.0 minutes from touchdown to gate at MCO.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

What stands out

Reliability here swings unusually widely by season, a wider month-to-month spread than 99% of 3,357 comparable routes.

81.4% on time in a typical November, against 51.6% in July.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Ranked against every other route with the same kind of figure and at least 3,357 in the comparison.

Why CLT → MCO flights are cancelled

July 2023 – July 2026

CLT → MCO cancelled 277 of 15,960 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 58. The reason filed most often was extreme weather, 78.0% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 74 scheduled flights.

Share of cancellations

Weather78.0%

Airline15.5%

Air traffic6.5%

Security0.0%

Of 277 cancelled departures carrying a reason code.

What each reason means

Extreme weather1 in 74

Conditions the carrier judged severe enough to stop the flight: a blizzard, a hurricane, a line of thunderstorms.

216 cancellations, 78.0% of the total.

The airline1 in 371

Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.

43 cancellations, 15.5% of the total.

The air traffic system1 in 887

Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.

18 cancellations, 6.5% of the total.

Security—

A terminal evacuation, a security breach, screening equipment failure, or screening queues over 29 minutes.

0 cancellations, 0.0% of the total.

Reason codes are the operating airline’s own filing with US DOT, not an independent finding of fault. Ordinary bad weather is filed under air traffic, so weather’s full share is larger than its bar.

277 coded cancellations were recorded on CLT → MCO; the section appears from 50.

When it goes wrong

July 2023 – July 2026

One arrival in ten is worse than

69 min late

against a median of 2 min early

Arrived an hour or more late11.7%

Typical delay when late76 min

Cancelled1.74%

Landed somewhere else0.24%

CLT → MCO has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 2 min early, but the worst tenth are 71 minutes worse than that. If the trip has something unmissable at the end of it, the median is the wrong number to plan against.

Percentiles over 15,960 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.

Will your connection be tight enough?

Layovers at MCO after arriving from CLT.

Connection buffer and chance of missing by layover length, CLT → MCO arrivals
Connection time	Chance of missing	Reads as
30 min	46%	Likely to miss
45 min	28%	High risk
60 min	20%	High risk
90 min	12%	Some risk
120 min	7.3%	Some risk

This is one leg of a connection. Gate changes and the next flight's own schedule matter too. And a connection can fail before delay is even the question — this route cancels 1.74% of the time and diverts 0.24% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.

Chance of missing is the share of 15,645 arrivals on this route that landed later than the connection time less 30 minutes to reach the next gate.

The worst tenth of arrivals on this route land at least 69 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 15,960 operations.

Any other layover length: connection checker.

Best time to fly

CLT → MCO flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 87.8% of the time, against 60.3% for 6–9 PM departures, a gap of 27.5 percentage points.

By day and hour

On-time arrival rate for each weekday and scheduled departure hour, in local time at the departure airport (CLT).

Hour of departure matters more than day of the week: hourly averages sit a typical 10.1 points from the route-wide rate, weekday averages 4.1 points.

On-time arrival rate for CLT to MCO by weekday and scheduled departure hour, local time. Each button reads out one slot.
Hour	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
7 AM–8 AM
8 AM–9 AM
9 AM–10 AM
10 AM–11 AM
11 AM–12 PM
12 PM–1 PM
1 PM–2 PM
2 PM–3 PM
3 PM–4 PM
4 PM–5 PM
5 PM–6 PM
6 PM–7 PM
7 PM–8 PM
8 PM–9 PM
9 PM–10 PM
10 PM–11 PM

On-time rate, % · stronger color, fewer on time

40–49
50–59
60–69
70–79
80–89
90–99

Fewer than 120 flights, not scored

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · On time is arrival within 15 minutes of schedule. Cells round to whole percentages; the table shows one decimal.

No slot is named best or worst: too few reach 500 flights. Departures before 7 AM and after 11 PM (193 flights) are not drawn: no slot in those hours has enough flights to score.

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On-time arrival rate (%) with flights beneath, by scheduled departure hour and weekday for CLT to MCO. A dash means fewer than 120 flights, which are not scored.
Hour	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
7 AM–8 AM	90.8% on time154 flights	107 flights, too few to score	88.1% on time137 flights	89.0% on time157 flights	89.2% on time157 flights	80.7% on time136 flights	87.5% on time160 flights
8 AM–9 AM	89.1% on time129 flights	116 flights, too few to score	118 flights, too few to score	91.5% on time145 flights	87.8% on time140 flights	109 flights, too few to score	87.9% on time143 flights
9 AM–10 AM	81.6% on time162 flights	85.2% on time122 flights	86.6% on time136 flights	77.6% on time149 flights	81.9% on time153 flights	75.7% on time143 flights	80.4% on time143 flights
10 AM–11 AM	80 flights, too few to score	83 flights, too few to score	77 flights, too few to score	63 flights, too few to score	83 flights, too few to score	52 flights, too few to score	61 flights, too few to score
11 AM–12 PM	80.8% on time186 flights	84.3% on time161 flights	87.8% on time158 flights	77.5% on time193 flights	81.2% on time189 flights	79.6% on time170 flights	75.9% on time196 flights
12 PM–1 PM	80.1% on time149 flights	82.0% on time136 flights	84.6% on time134 flights	81.3% on time146 flights	76.3% on time154 flights	70.7% on time151 flights	67.7% on time157 flights
1 PM–2 PM	73.2% on time201 flights	82.1% on time192 flights	84.4% on time170 flights	75.6% on time210 flights	67.2% on time188 flights	73.5% on time202 flights	64.2% on time219 flights
2 PM–3 PM	64.8% on time174 flights	71.9% on time147 flights	73.0% on time158 flights	66.4% on time149 flights	68.1% on time168 flights	66.7% on time147 flights	58.2% on time156 flights
3 PM–4 PM	61.2% on time142 flights	67.4% on time140 flights	74.2% on time129 flights	65.9% on time169 flights	65.5% on time140 flights	62.7% on time136 flights	64.2% on time163 flights
4 PM–5 PM	66.9% on time135 flights	70.7% on time138 flights	67.9% on time140 flights	60.6% on time129 flights	59.2% on time131 flights	57.1% on time120 flights	54.0% on time141 flights
5 PM–6 PM	63.0% on time126 flights	112 flights, too few to score	66.4% on time124 flights	119 flights, too few to score	56.0% on time130 flights	57.0% on time122 flights	117 flights, too few to score
6 PM–7 PM	55.6% on time134 flights	66.7% on time136 flights	68.4% on time141 flights	59.4% on time140 flights	64.5% on time140 flights	65.2% on time162 flights	55.8% on time135 flights
7 PM–8 PM	56.0% on time144 flights	70.5% on time145 flights	69.5% on time129 flights	52.9% on time142 flights	58.3% on time141 flights	59.2% on time122 flights	46.2% on time137 flights
8 PM–9 PM	58.7% on time202 flights	65.9% on time131 flights	70.5% on time142 flights	64.3% on time200 flights	53.5% on time201 flights	57.6% on time181 flights	52.2% on time210 flights
9 PM–10 PM	85 flights, too few to score	64 flights, too few to score	57 flights, too few to score	60 flights, too few to score	83 flights, too few to score	50 flights, too few to score	59 flights, too few to score
10 PM–11 PM	66.1% on time184 flights	96 flights, too few to score	119 flights, too few to score	57.6% on time182 flights	62.2% on time184 flights	68.7% on time152 flights	48.2% on time198 flights

By departure window

5–9 AM87.8%

9 AM–12 PM81.4%

12–3 PM72.8%

3–6 PM62.8%

6–9 PM60.3%

9 PM–5 AM64.6%

By departure hour

12 AM

3 AM

6 AM

9 AM

12 PM

3 PM

6 PM

9 PM

Why CLT → MCO runs late

July 2023 – July 2026

Late-arriving aircraft46.1%

the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late

The airline24.1%

crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control

Air traffic control23.7%

airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control

Weather5.9%

weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically

Security0.2%

screening or terminal security incidents

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for CLT → MCO. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on CLT → MCO, at 46.1%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 5–9 AM departures arrived on time 87.8% of the time and 6–9 PM departures 60.3%.

How this route holds up in bad weather

July 2023 – July 2026

Bad weather raises cancellations by a similar amount at both ends of CLT to MCO: 4.6 times the normal rate at CLT and 3.2 times at MCO. Cancelled in bad weather against normal hours: CLT 5.7% against 1.2%, MCO 4.0% against 1.3%. Flights that did leave MCO in bad weather arrived on time 54.1% of the time, against 76.3% in normal hours.

Bad weather and normal hours at the airports

Scheduled departures, July 2023 – July 2026

Departures from CLT and MCO in hours of bad weather and in normal hours
Departures from	CLT	MCO
Cancelled in bad weather	5.7%	4.0%
Cancelled in normal hours	1.2%	1.3%
Arrived on time, bad weather	63.5%	54.1%
Arrived on time, normal hours	75.9%	76.3%
Departures in bad weather	55,311	33,297

American Airlines (5.3% cancelled against 6.4% for the other carriers at CLT) cancelled fewer departures from CLT in bad weather than the other carriers there did in the same months. None of the route’s other carriers was clearly worse.

This route’s airlines in bad weather at CLT

All departures from CLT

Cancellation rates in bad weather at CLT for the airlines that fly CLT to MCO, against the other carriers at CLT in the same months
Airline	Bad-weather departures	Cancelled	Other carriers
American Airlines	33,044	5.3%below the others	6.4%
Spirit Airlines	1,090	6.1%about level	5.7%
Frontier Airlines	812	6.7%about level	6.0%

These are airport figures, not route figures: every scheduled departure from CLT and MCO, to any destination, in hours the weather report called bad. The airline rows count each carrier’s departures from CLT on every route.

Weather source and limits. In full: CLT (airlines), MCO, What Weather Costs Each Airport, Who Cancels More When the Weather Turns, Airports That Change Places When Weather Turns.

Airlines on this route

Carriers with at least 200 flights, by the airline that operated each one.

Airlines on this route
Carrier	Flights	On time	Cancelled	Median delay	Severe
American Airlines	12,180	71.8%	1.51%	-1 min	11.2%
Frontier Airlines	1,891	69.4%	2.64%	-3 min	13.1%
Spirit Airlines	1,889	69.0%	2.28%	-2 min	13.5%

American Airlines flew 76.3% of the 15,960 flights listed. Frontier Airlines cancelled 2.64% of its flights here against 1.51% for American Airlines.

American Airlines arrived on time 2.8 percentage points more often than Spirit Airlines on this route.

Flights on this route

Flight numbers with at least 600 operations here and still on the schedule.

Flights on this route
Flight	Scheduled	Operations	On time
AA1879 American Airlines	8:15 PM	1,057	62.2%

Weekly and seasonal patterns

By day of week

Mon71.5%

Tue75.9%

Wed78.3%

Thu70.1%

Fri70.1%

Sat69.1%

Sun64.7%

Wednesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 13.6 percentage points.

By month

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

July is historically the weakest month and November the strongest, a spread of 29.8 percentage points.

Reliability over time

July 2023 – July 2026

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25

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Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 71.4% against 74.2% in the 12 months before — declining by 2.8 percentage points.

Data and methodology

Calculated by FlyerIntel from 15,960 CLT → MCO flight records from the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, covering July 2023 – July 2026. Late means 15 or more minutes past scheduled arrival; cancelled and diverted flights are left out of on-time rates.

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Analysis last recomputed September 26, 2026

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Route reliability

What stands out

Why CLT → MCO flights are cancelled

Share of cancellations

What each reason means

When it goes wrong

Will your connection be tight enough?

Best time to fly

By day and hour

By departure window

By departure hour

Why CLT → MCO runs late

How this route holds up in bad weather

Bad weather and normal hours at the airports

This route’s airlines in bad weather at CLT

Airlines on this route

Flights on this route

Weekly and seasonal patterns

By day of week

By month

Reliability over time

Data and methodology