Carrier performance at one airport
F9→MCO
Frontier Airlines at Orlando International
- Departures
- 17,376
- Period
- June 2025 to May 2026
- Routes
- 25
- Rank here
- #3 of 10
Frontier Airlines at Orlando lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.4%. About one flight in four arrive 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 17,376 flights, of which United Airlines flew 15,037 at 80.7% on time.
Measured against the airport rather than the country, Frontier Airlines runs 3 points ahead of the 74.1% weighted average across all carriers at MCO. That is the comparison worth making: every operator here works the same runways, the same airspace and the same weather.
Key figures
On time
76.6%
17,078 completed departures
Avg delay
76 min
Across delayed flights only
Cancelled
1.54%
At MCO, this carrier only
Rank here
#3
Of 10 carriers clearing the floor at MCO
These figures cover 17,000 flights between June 2025 and May 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Against the competition
Every carrier at MCO, ranked
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. United Airlines arrives on time 80.7% of the time; Allegiant Air manages 63.8%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 394 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines | 15,037 | 80.7% | 89 min | 1.00% | B |
| Delta Air Lines | 21,391 | 77.0% | 84 min | 1.87% | B |
| Frontier Airlines (this page) | 17,376 | 76.6% | 76 min | 1.54% | B |
| Republic Airways | 680 | 75.9% | 69 min | 0.44% | B+ |
| Alaska Airlines | 2,492 | 75.1% | 60 min | 0.72% | B+ |
| American Airlines | 19,415 | 73.1% | 89 min | 2.10% | C |
| Southwest Airlines | 50,175 | 72.9% | 56 min | 1.02% | C |
| JetBlue Airways | 18,479 | 71.2% | 75 min | 1.98% | C |
| Spirit Airlines | 16,236 | 69.7% | 68 min | 3.26% | C− |
| Allegiant Air | 394 | 63.8% | 89 min | 1.02% | D |
Spirit Airlines cancels 3.3% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
Route by route
Where Frontier Airlines flies from MCO
Frontier Airlines operates 25 routes out of MCO with enough volume to report. Route records inside one carrier at one airport still spread widely, because a short shuttle and a transcontinental have very different exposure to a late inbound.
| Route | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCO to PHL · Philadelphia | 1,491 | 70.8% | 89 min | 2.01% | C |
| MCO to SJU · San Juan | 1,214 | 72.3% | 80 min | 1.32% | C |
| MCO to ATL · Atlanta | 1,146 | 68.1% | 78 min | 1.83% | C |
| MCO to CLE · Cleveland | 1,145 | 74.7% | 78 min | 1.22% | C |
| MCO to CVG · Cincinnati | 819 | 74.9% | 79 min | 1.34% | C |
| MCO to DEN · Denver | 813 | 82.1% | 64 min | 1.11% | B |
| MCO to RDU · Raleigh | 708 | 77.2% | 79 min | 1.41% | B |
| MCO to DFW · Dallas-Fort Worth | 695 | 79.9% | 57 min | 1.58% | B |
| MCO to CLT · Charlotte | 566 | 79.9% | 65 min | 1.24% | B |
| MCO to TTN · Trenton | 542 | 71.6% | 71 min | 3.32% | C− |
| MCO to BWI · Baltimore | 520 | 78.2% | 76 min | 1.73% | B |
| MCO to IAH · Houston | 515 | 82.4% | 65 min | 0.39% | B+ |
| MCO to LAS · Las Vegas | 453 | 79.2% | 53 min | 0.66% | B+ |
| MCO to BQN · Aguadilla | 420 | 77.4% | 66 min | 1.67% | B |
| MCO to DTW · Detroit | 418 | 83.0% | 57 min | 1.20% | B |
| MCO to STL · St. Louis | 391 | 72.9% | 92 min | 1.28% | C |
| MCO to ISP · Islip | 372 | 75.4% | 84 min | 2.42% | B |
| MCO to ORD · Chicagothin sample | 360 | 72.2% | 89 min | 1.94% | C |
| MCO to JFK · New Yorkthin sample | 324 | 86.6% | 61 min | 1.23% | A |
| MCO to IND · Indianapolisthin sample | 322 | 80.6% | 102 min | 0.93% | B+ |
| MCO to BUF · Buffalothin sample | 284 | 79.3% | 67 min | 1.41% | B |
| MCO to IAD · Washingtonthin sample | 272 | 78.9% | 77 min | 2.57% | B |
| MCO to MDW · Chicagothin sample | 254 | 74.1% | 88 min | 1.18% | C |
| MCO to LGA · New Yorkthin sample | 251 | 71.2% | 73 min | 2.39% | C |
| MCO to LAX · Los Angelesthin sample | 233 | 79.6% | 59 min | 0.43% | B+ |
Departure window
Best time of day for this operation
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 25 points, against 17 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am3,934 flights90.0%
- 8am–11am2,838 flights83.7%
- 11am–2pm2,238 flights75.3%
- 2pm–5pm3,271 flights72.1%
- 5pm–8pm2,088 flights65.7%
- 8pm–5am3,007 flights65.4%
Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 90.0% of the time, against 65.4% for the overnight window. That is 25 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on.
Across the year
Seasonal pattern
July is the worst month at 67.6% on time, 20 points below September, the best at 87.2%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck.
Delay causes
What holds this operation up
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 20%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 305,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit.
Cancellations sit at 1.54% against a national 1.80%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.17%.
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.2% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
17,376 flights sit behind these numbers, which is a large enough sample that the headline rate is not moving on noise. Where a sub-group falls below 30 flights the site shows a dash instead of a percentage.
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. September runs 87.2% on time and July 67.6%, a swing of 20 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else.
Common questions
Frontier Airlines at MCO
How often is Frontier Airlines at MCO delayed?
About one flight in four arrive at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 23.4% of the 17,376 flights in this analysis, against 22.6% nationally. Delayed flights are late by a little over an hour on average.
Which airline is most reliable on Frontier Airlines at MCO?
United Airlines leads at 80.7% on time across 15,037 flights. Allegiant Air is at the other end on 63.8%, a gap of 17 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on Frontier Airlines at MCO?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 90.0% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 65.4%, 25 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are July delays on Frontier Airlines at MCO?
July is the weakest month at 67.6% on time, compared with 87.2% in September. Across the year that is 20 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
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Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, June 2025 to May 2026. Updated monthly. How this data is collected.