Route reliability record
LAS→MCO
Las Vegas to Orlando
- Flights
- 1,999
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 2,039 mi
- Carriers
- 5
This route sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 1,999 LAS to MCO flights, of which JetBlue Airways flew 470 at 84.1% on time.
Best time to fly LAS to MCO: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Tuesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 84.2% of the time and Tuesday flights 82.4%, against 74.3% for the route overall.
JetBlue Airways is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 84.1% on time across 470 flights.
Key figures
On time
74.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,978 completed flights
Avg delay
62 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.50%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
JetBlue
84.1% on time across 470 flights
These figures cover 1,999 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 2 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
Which airline is most reliable on LAS to MCO
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. JetBlue Airways arrives on time 84.1% of the time; Frontier Airlines manages 67.4%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 478 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JetBlue Airways | 470 | 84.1% | 65 min | 0.43% | B+ |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 42 | 73.8% | 91 min | 0.00% | C+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 1,006 | 73.1% | 45 min | 0.20% | C+ |
| Frontier Airlines | 478 | 67.4% | 89 min | 1.26% | C |
| Delta Air Linesthin sample | 3 | 33.3% | 31 min | 0.00% | F+ |
The spread between JetBlue and Frontier is 17 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 17 more arrivals inside the on-time window.
Flight by flight
Flights on LAS to MCO
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Las Vegas to Orlando
Every airline on this route, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time, with its best departure time and most punctual flight number. No nearby airport pair beat these.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. LAS → MCOLas Vegas to Orlando | JetBlue Airways | 83.7% | 84.1% | 0.43% | 11am–2pm, Wed | B6 2832 14:55 |
| 2. LAS → MCOLas Vegas to Orlando | Southwest Airlines | 73.0% | 73.1% | 0.20% | 8pm–5am, Tue | — |
| 3. LAS → MCOLas Vegas to Orlando | Frontier Airlines | 66.6% | 67.4% | 1.26% | 8pm–5am, Tue | F9 1876 21:42 |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 27 points, against 17 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am193 flights84.2%
- 8am–11am270 flights75.9%
- 11am–2pm438 flights67.3%
- 2pm–5pm216 flights59.5%
- 5pm–8pm37 flights56.8%
- 8pm–5am845 flights79.5%
Scale runs 50% to 90%.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 56.8% on time, against 84.2% 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 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 845 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter LAS to MCO by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On LAS to MCO, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 84.2% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 56.8%, a wide gap of 27.4 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am84.2%
- 8–11am75.9%
- 11am–2pm67.3%
- 2–5pm59.5%
- 5–8pm56.8%
- 8pm–5am79.5%
best all US flightsScale 50% to 95%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 32 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
July is the worst month at 57.2% on time, 32 points below November, the best at 88.8%. 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. March was the busiest month here, with 210 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 82.4% on time and Friday the weakest at 66.3%, a spread of 16 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Carrier accounts for 42% of the 31,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 42%Carrier
- 39%Late-arriving aircraft
- 17%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
39% 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 22 to one. The split is drawn from 31,460 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 13,000 of the 31,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.50%, 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 actually costs
7.7% 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.
At 2,039 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 81.3% on time across 1,955 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,999 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.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in MCO after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. November runs 88.8% on time and July 57.2%, a swing of 32 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 1,978 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
LAS to MCO questions
How often is LAS to MCO delayed?
About one flight in four arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 25.7% of the 1,999 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about an hour on average.
Which airline is most reliable on LAS to MCO?
JetBlue Airways leads at 84.1% on time across 470 flights. Frontier Airlines is at the other end on 67.4%, a gap of 17 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on LAS to MCO?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 84.2% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 56.8%, 27 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are July delays on LAS to MCO?
July is the weakest month at 57.2% on time, compared with 88.8% in November. Across the year that is 32 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- MCO to LAS — the return legseparate record
- Harry Reid International (LAS) delay statistics
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- JetBlue Airways on LAS to MCO84.1%
- Southwest Airlines on LAS to MCO73.1%
- Frontier Airlines on LAS to MCO67.4%
- LAS to LAX, a related route77.9%
- ATL to MCO, a related route70.3%
- LAS to DEN, a related route76.5%
- JetBlue Airways on-time record84.1%
- Spirit Airlines on-time record73.8%
- Southwest Airlines on-time record73.1%
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
Direction matters. LAS to MCO and MCO to LAS are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.