Carrier route record
F9CVG→MCO
Frontier Airlines · Cincinnati to Orlando
- Flights
- 821
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 46%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Frontier Airlines.
Frontier on CVG to MCO lands a B, 2 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 an hour and a half on average. That rests on 821 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Frontier 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
79.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 808 completed flights
Avg delay
89 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.46%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.6%
Every carrier on CVG to MCO, 1,791 flights
These figures cover 821 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.0% 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 CVG to MCO
Frontier flew 821 of the 1,791 flights on CVG to MCO, about 46% of it. Its 79.3% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 79.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two 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 | 721 | 80.7% | 60 min | 1.53% | B |
| Frontier Airlines (this page) | 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+ |
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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 24 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am268 flights85.6%
- 8am–11am138 flights85.2%
- 11am–2pm101 flights72.0%
- 2pm–5pm78 flights82.1%
- 5pm–8pm107 flights82.9%
- 8pm–5am129 flights61.4%
Scale runs 55% to 90%.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 61.4% on time, against 85.6% for the 5am–8am 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 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 268 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Frontier on CVG to MCO through the year
December is the weak month at 62.3% on time, against 94.1% in September. 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 93 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 87.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 75.0%, a spread of 13 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Frontier on CVG to MCO runs when it is late
Frontier on CVG to MCO often beats the schedule: 271 of 808 completed flights, 34%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 167 late arrivals split 44 under half an hour, 50 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 73 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early271 flights33.5%
- Within 15 min370 flights45.8%
- 15–29 min late44 flights5.4%
- 30–59 min late50 flights6.2%
- 1–2 hours late36 flights4.5%
- 2+ hours late37 flights4.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 808 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
26 of 159 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. 34 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Frontier on CVG to MCO
The latest arrival of the period was on 10 November 2025, 10 hours 49 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 10 November 2025 | 10 hours 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 December 2025 | 10 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 March 2026 | 8 hours 21 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 December 2025 | 6 hours 50 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 January 2026 | 6 hours 42 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Frontier runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 60% of the 15,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 60%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%Carrier
- 16%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
60% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 15,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 14 to one. The split is drawn from 14,896 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 85.6% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.46% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.12%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
9.0% 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 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 runs 76.4% on time across 820 flights, within 3 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 821 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 CVG to MCO
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 821 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 79.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 808 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CVG to MCO, every carrier
- Frontier on MCO to CVG, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on CVG to MCO80.7%
- Southwest Airlines on CVG to MCO77.1%
- Frontier Airlines network-wide record
- Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International (CVG) 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.