Carrier route record
F9MCO→CLE
Frontier Airlines · Orlando to Cleveland
- Flights
- 1,255
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 59%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Frontier Airlines.
Frontier on MCO to CLE sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 1,255 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so Frontier on MCO to CLE runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 44 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,235 completed flights
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.35%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
76.9%
Every carrier on MCO to CLE, 2,123 flights
These figures cover 1,255 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.4% 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 MCO to CLE
Frontier flew 1,255 of the 2,123 flights on MCO to CLE, most of the route. Its 72.9% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 85.2% to Frontier at 72.9%. One 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines | 543 | 85.2% | 84 min | 0.55% | A+ |
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 325 | 78.6% | 46 min | 0.92% | B+ |
| Frontier Airlines (this page) | 1,255 | 72.9% | 82 min | 1.35% | C |
Flight by flight
Frontier flight numbers on MCO to CLE
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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 31 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am254 flights85.7%
- 8am–11am131 flights89.3%
- 11am–2pm208 flights76.8%
- 2pm–5pm156 flights74.8%
- 5pm–8pm217 flights61.4%
- 8pm–5am289 flights58.5%
Scale runs 50% to 95%.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 58.5% on time, against 89.3% for the 8am–11am 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 289 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Frontier on MCO to CLE through the year
August is the worst month at 57.9% on time, 30 points below September, the best at 88.2%. 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 137 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 81.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 65.4%, a spread of 16 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Frontier on MCO to CLE runs when it is late
Frontier on MCO to CLE often beats the schedule: 401 of 1,235 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 335 late arrivals split 91 under half an hour, 91 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 153 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early401 flights32.5%
- Within 15 min499 flights40.4%
- 15–29 min late91 flights7.4%
- 30–59 min late91 flights7.4%
- 1–2 hours late82 flights6.6%
- 2+ hours late71 flights5.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,235 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
57 of 341 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. 51 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Frontier on MCO to CLE
The latest arrival of the period was on 1 April 2026, 16 hours 3 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 April 2026 | 16 hours 3 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 June 2026 | 12 hours 46 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 April 2026 | 9 hours 1 minute | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 29 March 2026 | 7 hours 9 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 March 2026 | 6 hours 52 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Frontier runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 59% of the 28,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 59%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%Carrier
- 12%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
59% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 28,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 12 to one. The split is drawn from 27,597 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 89.3% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.35% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.24%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
12.4% 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 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 76.0% on time across 1,256 flights, 3 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 3 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,255 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.
What to do with this
Booking Frontier on MCO to CLE
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. September runs 88.2% on time and August 57.9%, a swing of 30 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of August before you think about anything else. 1,235 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MCO to CLE, every carrier
- Frontier on CLE to MCO, the return leg
- United Airlines on MCO to CLE85.2%
- Southwest Airlines on MCO to CLE78.6%
- Frontier Airlines network-wide record
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- Cleveland Hopkins International (CLE) 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.