Carrier route record
UAMCO→CLE
United Airlines · Orlando to Cleveland
- Flights
- 543
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 26%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with United Airlines.
United on MCO to CLE earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 543 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, United's MCO to CLE record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 79 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 539 completed flights
Avg delay
84 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.55%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
76.9%
Every carrier on MCO to CLE, 2,123 flights
These figures cover 543 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 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
United against every carrier on MCO to CLE
United flew 543 of the 2,123 flights on MCO to CLE, about 26% of it. Its 85.2% on time is 8 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 76.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first 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 (this page) | 543 | 85.2% | 84 min | 0.55% | A+ |
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 325 | 78.6% | 46 min | 0.92% | B+ |
| Frontier Airlines | 1,255 | 72.9% | 82 min | 1.35% | C |
Flight by flight
United flight numbers on MCO to CLE
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Departure window
When United runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 16 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am19 flights—
- 11am–2pm314 flights91.6%
- 2pm–5pm95 flights75.8%
- 5pm–8pm115 flights77.2%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 91.6% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 75.8%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 314 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
United on MCO to CLE through the year
July is the worst month at 75.0% on time, 19 points below February, the best at 94.1%. 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 61 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 93.2% on time and Monday the weakest at 76.5%, a spread of 17 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late United on MCO to CLE runs when it is late
United on MCO to CLE often beats the schedule: 252 of 539 completed flights, 47%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 80 late arrivals split 20 under half an hour, 31 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 29 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early252 flights46.8%
- Within 15 min207 flights38.4%
- 15–29 min late20 flights3.7%
- 30–59 min late31 flights5.8%
- 1–2 hours late17 flights3.2%
- 2+ hours late12 flights2.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 539 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
14 of 77 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. 17 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for United on MCO to CLE
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 August 2026, 18 hours 38 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2026 | 18 hours 38 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 February 2026 | 6 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 May 2026 | 5 hours 38 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 June 2026 | 4 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 March 2026 | 3 hours 56 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 6,712 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
54% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,712 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 17 to one. The split is drawn from 6,712 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.55%, 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 costs
5.4% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
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 89.8% on time across 543 flights, 5 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 5 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 543 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 United on MCO to CLE
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 543 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 85.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 539 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MCO to CLE, every carrier
- United on CLE to MCO, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on MCO to CLE78.6%
- Frontier Airlines on MCO to CLE72.9%
- United 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.