Carrier route record
F9MCO→CVG
Frontier Airlines · Orlando to Cincinnati
- Flights
- 820
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 46%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Frontier Airlines.
Frontier on MCO to CVG lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 820 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Frontier on MCO to CVG from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
76.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 806 completed flights
Avg delay
79 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.59%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
74.7%
Every carrier on MCO to CVG, 1,790 flights
These figures cover 820 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.2% 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 CVG
Frontier flew 820 of the 1,790 flights on MCO to CVG, about 46% of it. Its 76.4% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 74.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 76.4% to Republic at 61.5%. Two 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier Airlines (this page) | 820 | 76.4% | 79 min | 1.59% | B |
| Delta Air Lines | 721 | 73.6% | 89 min | 1.66% | C |
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 235 | 72.7% | 61 min | 1.28% | C |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 14 | 61.5% | 45 min | 7.14% | D− |
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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 21 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am45 flights88.6%
- 8am–11am177 flights83.0%
- 11am–2pm138 flights84.8%
- 2pm–5pm116 flights67.5%
- 5pm–8pm84 flights72.0%
- 8pm–5am260 flights70.6%
Scale runs 60% to 95%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 88.6% of the time, against 67.5% for the afternoon window. That is 21 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 260 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Frontier on MCO to CVG through the year
December is the weak month at 62.3% on time, against 88.5% in September. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. March was the busiest month here, with 92 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 83.1% on time and Monday the weakest at 72.4%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Frontier on MCO to CVG runs when it is late
Frontier on MCO to CVG often beats the schedule: 318 of 806 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 190 late arrivals split 47 under half an hour, 61 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 82 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early318 flights39.5%
- Within 15 min298 flights37.0%
- 15–29 min late47 flights5.8%
- 30–59 min late61 flights7.6%
- 1–2 hours late44 flights5.5%
- 2+ hours late38 flights4.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 806 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
27 of 178 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. 39 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Frontier on MCO to CVG
The latest arrival of the period was on 10 November 2025, 10 hours 36 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 10 November 2025 | 10 hours 36 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 July 2026 | 8 hours 17 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 10 November 2025 | 8 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 December 2025 | 6 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 December 2025 | 5 hours 53 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Frontier runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 59% of the 15,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 59%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%Carrier
- 14%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 15,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 11 to one. The split is drawn from 14,911 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 88.6% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.59% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.12%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
10.2% 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 757 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 runs 79.3% on time across 821 flights, within 3 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 820 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 CVG
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 820 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 76.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 806 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MCO to CVG, every carrier
- Frontier on CVG to MCO, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on MCO to CVG73.6%
- Southwest Airlines on MCO to CVG72.7%
- Frontier Airlines network-wide record
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International (CVG) 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.