Airport month record
MCONOV
Orlando International in November 2025
- Departures
- 13,206
- Month
- November 2025
- National, same month
- 79.4%
- Carriers
- 8
Historical statistics for November 2025, not live status or a forecast for this year’s November. For today’s conditions at MCO, see live FAA status.
MCO in November lands a B, level with the national rate of 79.4%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 13,206 flights, of which Delta Air Lines flew 1,710 at 83.0% on time.
Delta Air Lines is the most reliable of the seven carriers covered here at 83.0% on time across 1,710 flights.
Key figures
On time
79.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 12,927 completed departures
Avg delay
76 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.92%
Nationally in November: 2.49%
Whole year
74.6%
MCO across all twelve months
These figures cover 13,206 departures from Orlando International in November 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
November next to MCO's other months
Against MCO's own year, November ran 5 points better than the twelve-month rate of 74.6%, which makes it number two of twelve months, best first. Either side of it, October ran 75.6% on time and December 71.7%, so a trip moved by a few weeks would have landed in a worse stretch.
| Month | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | 11,256 | 84.6% | 60 min | 0.22% | B+ |
| October 2025 | 13,245 | 75.6% | 70 min | 0.55% | B+ |
| November 2025 (this page) | 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 |
| July 2026 | 13,136 | 68.2% | 83 min | 2.41% | C |
| August 2026 | 12,085 | 68.3% | 86 min | 2.16% | C |
Departure window
The best time of day to leave MCO in November
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 24 points, against 8 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am2,084 flights92.8%
- 8am–11am2,710 flights88.1%
- 11am–2pm2,166 flights76.3%
- 2pm–5pm2,219 flights73.3%
- 5pm–8pm2,532 flights69.1%
- 8pm–5am1,495 flights72.9%
Scale runs 60% to 100%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 92.8% of the time, against 69.1% for the evening window. That is 24 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 2,710 flights scheduled in it.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 89.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 67.3%, a spread of 22 points.
Carrier by carrier
Which airlines ran best at MCO in November
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Delta Air Lines arrives on time 83.0% of the time; JetBlue Airways manages 74.7%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,675 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 4,329 | 80.1% | 63 min | 1.71% | B |
| Delta Air Lines | 1,710 | 83.0% | 76 min | 1.87% | B |
| JetBlue Airways | 1,675 | 74.7% | 79 min | 2.63% | C |
| American Airlines | 1,540 | 75.5% | 83 min | 2.53% | B |
| Frontier Airlines | 1,341 | 80.8% | 85 min | 1.19% | B |
| United Airlines | 1,225 | 80.5% | 103 min | 2.29% | B |
| Spirit Airlines | 1,169 | 77.8% | 72 min | 1.71% | B |
| Alaska Airlinesthin sample | 192 | 75.5% | 46 min | 0.00% | B+ |
Delta leads JetBlue by 8 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.
Route by route
Busiest routes out of MCO in November
| Route | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCO to ATL · Atlanta | 637 | 79.0% | 79 min | 2.51% | B |
| MCO to EWR · Newark | 608 | 69.3% | 117 min | 6.25% | C− |
| MCO to ORD · Chicago | 506 | 75.7% | 98 min | 2.96% | B |
| MCO to SJU · San Juan | 489 | 78.7% | 67 min | 1.02% | B |
| MCO to LGA · New York | 447 | 65.2% | 89 min | 1.79% | C |
| MCO to JFK · New York | 420 | 82.3% | 73 min | 3.10% | B− |
| MCO to BWI · Baltimore | 416 | 84.8% | 66 min | 1.68% | B |
| MCO to PHL · Philadelphia | 407 | 77.4% | 80 min | 2.21% | B |
| MCO to CLT · Charlotte | 376 | 79.7% | 74 min | 1.60% | B |
| MCO to DFW · Dallas-Fort Worth | 373 | 74.6% | 97 min | 2.95% | C |
| MCO to DCA · Washington | 372 | 70.7% | 69 min | 3.49% | C− |
| MCO to BOS · Boston | 367 | 77.0% | 78 min | 4.09% | B− |
| MCO to DEN · Denverthin sample | 350 | 85.3% | 56 min | 0.86% | A+ |
| MCO to MIA · Miamithin sample | 318 | 77.9% | 59 min | 3.14% | B− |
| MCO to IAH · Houstonthin sample | 294 | 83.8% | 61 min | 1.02% | B |
| MCO to DTW · Detroitthin sample | 292 | 80.3% | 55 min | 0.34% | B+ |
| MCO to BNA · Nashvillethin sample | 288 | 80.6% | 68 min | 2.78% | B |
| MCO to LAX · Los Angelesthin sample | 268 | 84.3% | 55 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| MCO to MDW · Chicagothin sample | 234 | 80.2% | 66 min | 4.27% | B− |
| MCO to AUS · Austinthin sample | 229 | 84.1% | 78 min | 0.87% | B+ |
| MCO to DAL · Dallasthin sample | 222 | 78.5% | 59 min | 3.15% | B− |
| MCO to STL · St. Louisthin sample | 203 | 83.1% | 87 min | 0.49% | B+ |
| MCO to RDU · Raleighthin sample | 202 | 86.7% | 91 min | 2.97% | A |
| MCO to IND · Indianapolisthin sample | 197 | 77.9% | 77 min | 3.55% | B− |
| MCO to MSY · New Orleansthin sample | 194 | 78.9% | 57 min | 0.00% | B+ |
Delay causes
What held MCO up in November
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 204,000 reported delay minutes.
- 40%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%National Airspace System
- 26%Carrier
- 1%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
40% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 204,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 33 to one. The split is drawn from 203,908 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 1.92% against a national 2.49%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.20%.
8.5% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 7.8%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
What to do with this
Flying from MCO in November
For a November trip through MCO: this is one of the better months to be flying from here, 79.1% on time with 1.92% cancelled. That is a base rate for the month as a whole; a single storm can still spoil a particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- Orlando International (MCO), the whole year
- MCO in September84.6%
- MCO in October75.6%
- 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%
- MCO in July68.2%
- MCO in August68.3%
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.