Airport month record

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Orlando International in July 2025

Departures: 13,579
Month: July 2025
National, same month: 71.1%
Carriers: 11

Historical statistics for July 2025, not live status or a forecast for this year’s July. For today’s conditions at MCO, see live FAA status.

MCO in July draws a C. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 13,579 flights, of which United Airlines flew 1,168 at 70.4% on time.

United Airlines is the most reliable of the seven carriers covered here at 70.4% on time across 1,168 flights.

On time

67.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 13,268 completed departures

Avg delay

84 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.81%

Nationally in July: 2.45%

Whole year

74.3%

MCO across all twelve months

These figures cover 13,579 departures from Orlando International in July 2025. On time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the DOT's threshold, and the national comparison uses every US departure in the same month rather than the whole year.

Against the year

July next to MCO's other months

Against MCO's own year, July ran 7 points worse than the twelve-month rate of 74.3%, which makes it the worst of the twelve months in the data.

MCO month by month
Month	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
July 2025 (this page)	13,579	67.0%	84 min	1.81%	C
August 2025	12,746	67.5%	81 min	0.79%	C+
September 2025	11,256	84.6%	60 min	0.22%	B+
October 2025	13,245	75.6%	70 min	0.55%	B+
November 2025	13,206	79.1%	76 min	1.92%	B
December 2025	14,287	71.7%	69 min	1.36%	C
January 2026	13,786	75.4%	66 min	3.87%	B−
February 2026	13,339	72.9%	66 min	2.61%	C
March 2026	15,497	70.5%	73 min	3.96%	C−
April 2026	14,604	77.6%	60 min	0.39%	B+
May 2026	12,958	78.5%	64 min	0.70%	B+
June 2026	12,541	73.3%	77 min	1.00%	C

Departure window

The best time of day to leave MCO in July

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 47 points, against 8 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am2,349 flights90.3%
8am–11am2,681 flights83.9%
11am–2pm1,983 flights74.4%
2pm–5pm2,262 flights56.5%
5pm–8pm2,258 flights47.6%
8pm–5am2,046 flights43.1%

Scale runs 35% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 43.1% on time, against 90.3% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 2,681 flights scheduled in it.

Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 74.4% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 60.9%. 14 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Carrier by carrier

Which airlines ran best at MCO in July

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. United Airlines arrives on time 70.4% of the time; American Airlines manages 62.2%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,615 flights means less than a ten-point one.

Carriers at MCO in July 2025
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Southwest Airlines	4,134	68.0%	64 min	0.97%	C+
Delta Air Lines	1,740	67.0%	94 min	2.41%	C
Spirit Airlines	1,633	69.4%	70 min	1.22%	C
American Airlines	1,615	62.2%	109 min	2.97%	D
JetBlue Airways	1,604	63.4%	93 min	3.49%	D−
Frontier Airlines	1,310	67.6%	79 min	1.83%	C
United Airlines	1,168	70.4%	120 min	1.11%	C
Alaska Airlinesthin sample	216	67.6%	57 min	1.39%	C
Republic Airwaysthin sample	93	72.8%	102 min	0.00%	C+
Allegiant Airthin sample	35	48.6%	77 min	0.00%	F+
Envoy Airthin sample	31	80.6%	45 min	0.00%	B+

JetBlue Airways cancels 3.5% 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

Busiest routes out of MCO in July

Routes from MCO in July 2025
Route	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
MCO to ATL · Atlanta	698	68.2%	93 min	0.86%	C+
MCO to SJU · San Juan	623	70.3%	63 min	0.48%	C+
MCO to ORD · Chicago	512	64.3%	91 min	0.98%	D+
MCO to EWR · Newark	480	58.8%	149 min	4.79%	D−
MCO to DFW · Dallas-Fort Worth	447	66.5%	94 min	2.24%	C
MCO to DEN · Denver	438	67.7%	80 min	0.68%	C+
MCO to JFK · New York	433	55.2%	99 min	6.70%	D−
MCO to PHL · Philadelphia	428	60.6%	117 min	4.21%	D−
MCO to BWI · Baltimore	414	64.1%	78 min	4.11%	D−
MCO to LGA · New York	404	60.7%	98 min	7.18%	D−
MCO to CLT · Charlotte	403	71.3%	96 min	2.23%	C
MCO to DCA · Washington	394	54.9%	114 min	3.55%	F−
MCO to BOS · Bostonthin sample	341	60.4%	88 min	3.81%	D−
MCO to MIA · Miamithin sample	309	69.0%	105 min	1.29%	C
MCO to DTW · Detroitthin sample	306	71.6%	67 min	0.65%	C+
MCO to IAH · Houstonthin sample	306	68.6%	102 min	0.33%	C+
MCO to BNA · Nashvillethin sample	278	71.4%	60 min	1.44%	C
MCO to LAX · Los Angelesthin sample	272	65.7%	85 min	0.37%	C+
MCO to MDW · Chicagothin sample	261	70.0%	64 min	3.83%	C−
MCO to AUS · Austinthin sample	253	67.5%	66 min	1.19%	C
MCO to DAL · Dallasthin sample	250	68.4%	68 min	0.40%	C+
MCO to MSY · New Orleansthin sample	221	68.8%	61 min	0.00%	C+
MCO to RDU · Raleighthin sample	216	67.3%	102 min	2.78%	C
MCO to STL · St. Louisthin sample	209	72.5%	75 min	1.44%	C
MCO to IND · Indianapolisthin sample	186	71.3%	67 min	2.15%	C

Delay causes

What held MCO up in July

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 368,000 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
38%
National Airspace System
27%
Carrier
24%
Extreme weather
10%
Security
0%

38% 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 368,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 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. The split is drawn from 368,448 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations sit at 1.81% against a national 2.45%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.48%.

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 14.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 12.1% 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.

What to do with this

Flying from MCO in July

For a July trip through MCO: plan on this being one of the airport's harder months. The 5am–8am departures held up best at 90.3% on time, and with 14.7% of arrivals an hour or more late, a connection here deserves more slack than the same trip in September would.

Orlando International (MCO), the whole year
MCO in August67.5%
MCO in September84.6%
MCO in October75.6%
MCO in November79.1%
MCO in December71.7%
MCO in January75.4%
MCO in February72.9%
MCO in March70.5%
MCO in April77.6%
MCO in May78.5%
MCO in June73.3%

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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