Carrier route record
UACLE→MCO
United Airlines · Cleveland to Orlando
- Flights
- 543
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 26%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with United Airlines.
United on CLE to MCO earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 13 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 543 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, United's CLE to MCO record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 125 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
89.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 537 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.37%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.4%
Every carrier on CLE to MCO, 2,125 flights
These figures cover 543 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
United against every carrier on CLE to MCO
United flew 543 of the 2,125 flights on CLE to MCO, about 26% of it. Its 89.8% on time is 10 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 79.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two 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 (this page) | 543 | 89.8% | 70 min | 0.37% | A+ |
| Frontier Airlines | 1,256 | 76.0% | 105 min | 1.35% | B |
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 325 | 75.5% | 86 min | 0.00% | B+ |
Flight by flight
United flight numbers on CLE to MCO
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Departure window
When United runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 11 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am120 flights94.2%
- 8am–11am246 flights91.8%
- 11am–2pm177 flights83.7%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 83.7% on time against 94.2% for 5am–8am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 246 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
United on CLE to MCO through the year
December is the weak month at 72.7% on time, against 97.0% in August. 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 61 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 95.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 85.9%, a spread of 10 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late United on CLE to MCO runs when it is late
United on CLE to MCO often beats the schedule: 219 of 537 completed flights, 41%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 55 late arrivals split 21 under half an hour, 14 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 20 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early219 flights40.8%
- Within 15 min263 flights49.0%
- 15–29 min late21 flights3.9%
- 30–59 min late14 flights2.6%
- 1–2 hours late8 flights1.5%
- 2+ hours late12 flights2.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 537 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
6 of 44 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. 17 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for United on CLE to MCO
The latest arrival of the period was on 3 May 2026, 6 hours 10 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 3 May 2026 | 6 hours 10 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 September 2025 | 4 hours 12 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 February 2026 | 3 hours 38 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 3 April 2026 | 2 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 March 2026 | 2 hours 41 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
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 3,843 reported delay minutes.
- 36%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%National Airspace System
- 28%Carrier
- 9%Extreme weather
36% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,843 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one. The split is drawn from 3,843 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 94.2% on time here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.37%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
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 85.2% on time across 543 flights, 5 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 5 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 543 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking United on CLE to MCO
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 543 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 89.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 537 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLE to MCO, every carrier
- United on MCO to CLE, the return leg
- Frontier Airlines on CLE to MCO76.0%
- Southwest Airlines on CLE to MCO75.5%
- United 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.