Carrier route record
F9CLT→MCO
Frontier Airlines · Charlotte to Orlando
- Flights
- 677
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 14%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Frontier Airlines.
Frontier on CLT to MCO sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 677 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, American Airlines, flew 3,686 at 71.6% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so Frontier on CLT to MCO runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 43 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
73.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 651 completed flights
Avg delay
105 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.69%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
71.6%
Every carrier on CLT to MCO, 4,734 flights
These figures cover 677 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.3% 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 CLT to MCO
Frontier flew 677 of the 4,734 flights on CLT to MCO, about 14% of it. Its 73.0% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 71.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 73.0% to Spirit at 68.9%.
The two carriers here are closely matched: 3 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier Airlines (this page) | 677 | 73.0% | 105 min | 3.69% | C− |
| American Airlines | 3,686 | 71.6% | 74 min | 1.71% | C |
| Spirit Airlines | 371 | 68.9% | 60 min | 5.12% | C− |
Spirit Airlines cancels 5.1% 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.
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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 28 points, against 3 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am3 flights—
- 8am–11am78 flights84.0%
- 11am–2pm145 flights84.4%
- 2pm–5pm128 flights71.4%
- 5pm–8pm53 flights56.6%
- 8pm–5am270 flights67.2%
Scale runs 50% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 56.6% on time, against 84.4% for the 11am–2pm 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 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 270 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Frontier on CLT to MCO through the year
August is the worst month at 62.3% on time, 27 points below February, the best at 89.4%. 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. August was the busiest month here, with 80 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 80.3% on time and Saturday the weakest at 65.5%, a spread of 15 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Frontier on CLT to MCO runs when it is late
Frontier on CLT to MCO often beats the schedule: 236 of 651 completed flights, 36%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 176 late arrivals split 44 under half an hour, 52 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 80 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early236 flights36.3%
- Within 15 min239 flights36.7%
- 15–29 min late44 flights6.8%
- 30–59 min late52 flights8.0%
- 1–2 hours late45 flights6.9%
- 2+ hours late35 flights5.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 651 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
41 of 198 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. 19 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Frontier on CLT to MCO
The latest arrival of the period was on 12 August 2026, 21 hours 36 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across August, March and January, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 12 August 2026 | 21 hours 36 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 March 2026 | 18 hours 43 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 3 January 2026 | 14 hours 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 March 2026 | 12 hours 45 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 August 2026 | 10 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Frontier runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 63% of the 18,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 63%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
63% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 18,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 63 to one. The split is drawn from 18,433 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 3.69%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 25 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
12.3% 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.
At 468 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 78.5% on time across 679 flights, 6 points above 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 6 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 677 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 Frontier on CLT to MCO
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.69% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 651 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to MCO, every carrier
- Frontier on MCO to CLT, the return leg
- American Airlines on CLT to MCO71.6%
- Spirit Airlines on CLT to MCO68.9%
- Frontier Airlines network-wide record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.