Carrier route record
DLCVG→MCO
Delta Air Lines · Cincinnati to Orlando
- Flights
- 721
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 40%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Delta Air Lines.
Delta on CVG to MCO lands a B, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 721 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 Delta on CVG 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
80.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 705 completed flights
Avg delay
60 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.53%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.6%
Every carrier on CVG to MCO, 1,791 flights
These figures cover 721 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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
Delta against every carrier on CVG to MCO
Delta flew 721 of the 1,791 flights on CVG to MCO, about 40% of it. Its 80.7% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 79.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 80.7% to Southwest at 77.1%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines (this page) | 721 | 80.7% | 60 min | 1.53% | B |
| Frontier Airlines | 821 | 79.3% | 89 min | 1.46% | B |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 14 | 78.6% | 42 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 235 | 77.1% | 53 min | 0.85% | B+ |
Flight by flight
Delta flight numbers on CVG to MCO
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Departure window
When Delta runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 13 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am3 flights—
- 8am–11am362 flights87.1%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm356 flights74.3%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 87.1% of the time, against 74.3% for the afternoon window. That is 13 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 362 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Delta on CVG to MCO through the year
December is the weak month at 68.9% on time, against 91.7% in April. 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. January was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 89.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 75.0%, a spread of 14 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Delta on CVG to MCO runs when it is late
The 136 late arrivals split 52 under half an hour, 42 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 42 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early162 flights23.0%
- Within 15 min407 flights57.7%
- 15–29 min late52 flights7.4%
- 30–59 min late42 flights6.0%
- 1–2 hours late26 flights3.7%
- 2+ hours late16 flights2.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 705 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
13 of 107 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 12% of them. In the other direction, 42 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at MCO.
The worst days
Worst days for Delta on CVG to MCO
The latest arrival of the period was on 23 March 2026, 5 hours 25 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 23 March 2026 | 5 hours 25 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 June 2026 | 4 hours 39 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 September 2025 | 4 hours 15 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 August 2026 | 4 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 October 2025 | 3 hours 20 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why Delta runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 46% of the 8,139 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Carrier
- 32%National Airspace System
- 19%Late-arriving aircraft
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 46%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,747 of the 8,139 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 8,139 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 1.53% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.69%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
6.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 757 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 73.6% on time across 721 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 721 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 Delta on CVG to MCO
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 721 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 80.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 705 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CVG to MCO, every carrier
- Delta on MCO to CVG, the return leg
- Frontier Airlines on CVG to MCO79.3%
- Southwest Airlines on CVG to MCO77.1%
- Delta Air Lines network-wide record
- Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International (CVG) delay statistics
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.