Carrier route record
F9CLE→MCO
Frontier Airlines · Cleveland to Orlando
- Flights
- 1,256
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 59%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Frontier Airlines.
Frontier on CLE to MCO lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That rests on 1,256 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Frontier on CLE to MCO from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
76.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,236 completed flights
Avg delay
105 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.35%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.4%
Every carrier on CLE to MCO, 2,125 flights
These figures cover 1,256 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Frontier against every carrier on CLE to MCO
Frontier flew 1,256 of the 2,125 flights on CLE to MCO, most of the route. Its 76.0% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 79.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Spirit at 100.0% to Southwest at 75.5%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 1 | 100.0% | — | 0.00% | A+ |
| United Airlines | 543 | 89.8% | 70 min | 0.37% | A+ |
| Frontier Airlines (this page) | 1,256 | 76.0% | 105 min | 1.35% | B |
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 325 | 75.5% | 86 min | 0.00% | B+ |
Flight by flight
Frontier flight numbers on CLE to MCO
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Departure window
When Frontier runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 19 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am234 flights86.1%
- 8am–11am299 flights83.4%
- 11am–2pm119 flights70.7%
- 2pm–5pm242 flights71.5%
- 5pm–8pm185 flights68.3%
- 8pm–5am177 flights67.3%
Scale runs 60% to 90%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 86.1% of the time, against 67.3% for the overnight window. That is 19 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 299 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Frontier on CLE to MCO through the year
January is the weak month at 62.5% on time, against 88.6% in May. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. March was the busiest month here, with 137 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 85.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 69.4%, a spread of 16 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Frontier on CLE to MCO runs when it is late
Frontier on CLE to MCO often beats the schedule: 406 of 1,236 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 297 late arrivals split 81 under half an hour, 68 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 148 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early406 flights32.8%
- Within 15 min533 flights43.1%
- 15–29 min late81 flights6.6%
- 30–59 min late68 flights5.5%
- 1–2 hours late75 flights6.1%
- 2+ hours late73 flights5.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,236 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
59 of 305 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. 51 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Frontier on CLE to MCO
The latest arrival of the period was on 11 June 2026, 17 hours 55 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 11 June 2026 | 17 hours 55 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 June 2026 | 16 hours 58 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 March 2026 | 16 hours 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 25 July 2026 | 14 hours 52 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 December 2025 | 14 hours 13 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Frontier runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 31,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
55% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 31,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 52 to one. The split is drawn from 31,256 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 86.1% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.35% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.24%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
12.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 895 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 72.9% on time across 1,255 flights, 3 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 3 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,256 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking Frontier on CLE to MCO
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. May runs 88.6% on time and January 62.5%, a swing of 26 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of January before you think about anything else. 1,236 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLE to MCO, every carrier
- Frontier on MCO to CLE, the return leg
- United Airlines on CLE to MCO89.8%
- Southwest Airlines on CLE to MCO75.5%
- Frontier Airlines network-wide record
- Cleveland Hopkins International (CLE) delay statistics
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.