Carrier route record
F9MCO→CLT
Frontier Airlines · Orlando to Charlotte
- Flights
- 679
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 14%
- 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 CLT lands a B, about a point 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 a little over an hour on average. That rests on 679 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, American Airlines, flew 3,686 at 79.3% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Frontier 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
78.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 669 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.33%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.6%
Every carrier on MCO to CLT, 4,735 flights
These figures cover 679 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
Frontier against every carrier on MCO to CLT
Frontier flew 679 of the 4,735 flights on MCO to CLT, about 14% of it. Its 78.5% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 78.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two 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. American Airlines arrives on time 79.3% 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 | 3,686 | 79.3% | 89 min | 1.68% | B |
| Frontier Airlines (this page) | 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
Frontier flight numbers on MCO to CLT
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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 51 points, against 7 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am154 flights92.7%
- 8am–11am132 flights87.8%
- 11am–2pm105 flights76.9%
- 2pm–5pm213 flights74.2%
- 5pm–8pm44 flights52.3%
- 8pm–5am31 flights41.9%
Scale runs 35% to 100%.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 41.9% on time, against 92.7% 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 213 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Frontier on MCO to CLT through the year
August is the worst month at 68.8% on time, 24 points below May, the best at 92.7%. 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. August was the busiest month here, with 80 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 88.4% on time and Sunday the weakest at 67.3%, a spread of 21 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Frontier on MCO to CLT runs when it is late
Frontier on MCO to CLT often beats the schedule: 243 of 669 completed flights, 36%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 144 late arrivals split 42 under half an hour, 43 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 59 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early243 flights36.3%
- Within 15 min282 flights42.2%
- 15–29 min late42 flights6.3%
- 30–59 min late43 flights6.4%
- 1–2 hours late42 flights6.3%
- 2+ hours late17 flights2.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 669 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
15 of 125 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 12% of them. In the other direction, 34 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at CLT.
The worst days
Worst days for Frontier on MCO to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 17 August 2026, 10 hours 32 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 17 August 2026 | 10 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 June 2026 | 8 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 November 2025 | 5 hours 40 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 August 2026 | 4 hours 10 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 July 2026 | 3 hours 9 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Frontier runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 42% of the 10,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 42%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%National Airspace System
- 25%Carrier
- 5%Extreme weather
42% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 10,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 to one. The split is drawn from 10,061 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 92.7% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.33% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.15%.
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 a little over an hour, 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 73.0% on time across 677 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 679 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 MCO to CLT
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 679 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 78.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 669 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MCO to CLT, every carrier
- Frontier on CLT to MCO, the return leg
- American Airlines on MCO to CLT79.3%
- Spirit Airlines on MCO to CLT72.5%
- Frontier 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.