Carrier route record
AAMCO→CLT
American Airlines · Orlando to Charlotte
- Flights
- 3,686
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 78%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on MCO to CLT 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 3,686 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Frontier Airlines, flew 679 at 78.5% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate American on MCO to CLT 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 3,621 completed flights
Avg delay
89 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.68%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.6%
Every carrier on MCO to CLT, 4,735 flights
These figures cover 3,686 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on MCO to CLT
American flew 3,686 of the 4,735 flights on MCO to CLT, most of the route. Its 79.3% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 78.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 79.3% to Spirit at 72.5%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Frontier Airlines arrives on time 78.5% of the time; Spirit Airlines manages 72.5%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 370 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines (this page) | 3,686 | 79.3% | 89 min | 1.68% | B |
| Frontier Airlines | 679 | 78.5% | 70 min | 1.33% | B |
| Spirit Airlines | 370 | 72.5% | 66 min | 5.41% | C− |
Spirit Airlines cancels 5.4% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on MCO to CLT
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Departure window
When American runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 34 points, against 6 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am684 flights92.9%
- 8am–11am841 flights87.5%
- 11am–2pm683 flights82.0%
- 2pm–5pm846 flights70.9%
- 5pm–8pm526 flights58.8%
- 8pm–5am106 flights74.8%
Scale runs 50% to 100%.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 58.8% on time, against 92.9% 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 846 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on MCO to CLT through the year
August is the worst month at 70.9% on time, 16 points below September, the best at 86.8%. 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. April was the busiest month here, with 337 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 87.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 69.7%, a spread of 17 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on MCO to CLT runs when it is late
American on MCO to CLT often beats the schedule: 1,290 of 3,621 completed flights, 36%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 751 late arrivals split 226 under half an hour, 207 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 318 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early1,290 flights35.6%
- Within 15 min1,580 flights43.6%
- 15–29 min late226 flights6.2%
- 30–59 min late207 flights5.7%
- 1–2 hours late174 flights4.8%
- 2+ hours late144 flights4.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 3,621 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
169 of 806 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. 114 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on MCO to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 8 April 2026, 20 hours 57 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 8 April 2026 | 20 hours 57 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 July 2026 | 18 hours 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 May 2026 | 18 hours 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 January 2026 | 17 hours 13 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 April 2026 | 17 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 67,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%Carrier
- 12%National Airspace System
- 10%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
51% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 67,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 66,963 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 92.9% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.68% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.08%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.8% 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.
At 468 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 71.6% on time across 3,686 flights, 8 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 8 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 3,686 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 American on MCO to CLT
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. September runs 86.8% on time and August 70.9%, a swing of 16 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of August before you think about anything else. 3,621 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MCO to CLT, every carrier
- American on CLT to MCO, the return leg
- Frontier Airlines on MCO to CLT78.5%
- Spirit Airlines on MCO to CLT72.5%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) 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.