Route reliability record
MCO→HPN
Orlando to White Plains
- Flights
- 1,184
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 972 mi
- Carriers
- 1
This route sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 9 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 1,184 MCO to HPN flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
Best time to fly MCO to HPN: a 8am–11am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 76.7% of the time and Wednesday flights 79.6%, against 68.8% for the route overall.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so this route runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 85 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
68.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,136 completed flights
Avg delay
66 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.45%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
JetBlue
68.8% on time across 1,184 flights
These figures cover 1,184 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on MCO to HPN
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JetBlue Airways | 1,184 | 68.8% | 66 min | 2.45% | C |
Flight by flight
Flights on MCO to HPN
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Orlando to White Plains
Every airline on this route and on the routes between nearby airports, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time. 5 of the top 5 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. MCO → ISPOrlando to Islip | JetBlue Airways | 85.3% | 86.3% | 1.20% | 8am–11am, Sun | B6 546 06:15 |
| 2. MCO → EWROrlando to Newark | United Airlines | 76.7% | 78.6% | 2.36% | 5am–8am, Wed | UA 1643 14:37 |
| 3. MCO → JFKOrlando to New York | Delta Air Lines | 75.4% | 77.9% | 3.23% | 5am–8am, Wed | DL 2702 06:00 |
| 4. MCO → LGAOrlando to New York | Delta Air Lines | 72.3% | 75.7% | 4.53% | 5am–8am, Wed | — |
| 5. MCO → JFKOrlando to New York | JetBlue Airways | 68.4% | 71.5% | 4.31% | 5am–8am, Tue | B6 1184 06:00 |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
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–8am15 flights—
- 8am–11am215 flights76.7%
- 11am–2pm292 flights75.8%
- 2pm–5pm299 flights64.6%
- 5pm–8pm140 flights60.3%
- 8pm–5am223 flights61.6%
Scale runs 50% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 60.3% on time, against 76.7% 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 299 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter MCO to HPN by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On MCO to HPN, the best departure window is 8am–11am at 76.7% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 60.3%, a wide gap of 16.4 points. All US flights leaving 8am–11am ran 83.9%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am76.7%
- 11am–2pm75.8%
- 2–5pm64.6%
- 5–8pm60.3%
- 8pm–5am61.6%
best all US flightsScale 50% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 43 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
February is the weak month at 49.3% on time, against 92.4% 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. September was the busiest month here, with 119 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 79.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 58.8%, a spread of 21 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 23,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%National Airspace System
- 24%Carrier
- 6%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
46% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 23,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 to one. The split is drawn from 23,458 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 76.7% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 2.45% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.60%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
11.5% 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 972 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 74.5% on time across 1,184 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,184 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.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in HPN after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. September runs 92.4% on time and February 49.3%, a swing of 43 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of February before you think about anything else. 1,136 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
MCO to HPN questions
How often is MCO to HPN delayed?
About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 31.2% of the 1,184 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about an hour on average.
How reliable is MCO to HPN compared with the rest of the country?
68.8% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 9 points against it. That is worth a C on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on MCO to HPN?
The 8am–11am departure window is the strongest at 76.7% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 60.3%, 16 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are February delays on MCO to HPN?
February is the weakest month at 49.3% on time, compared with 92.4% in September. Across the year that is 43 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- HPN to MCO — the return legseparate record
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- MCO to ATL, a related route74.9%
- PBI to HPN, a related route72.7%
- MCO to EWR, a related route75.0%
- JetBlue Airways on-time record68.8%
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
Direction matters. MCO to HPN and HPN to MCO are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.