Carrier route record
F9MCO→LGA
Frontier Airlines · Orlando to New York
- Flights
- 338
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 7%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Frontier Airlines.
Frontier on MCO to LGA 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 a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 338 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Delta Air Lines, flew 2,162 at 75.7% on time.
Delta Air Lines is the most reliable of the four carriers covered here at 75.7% on time across 2,162 flights.
Key figures
On time
68.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 321 completed flights
Avg delay
69 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.14%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
67.5%
Every carrier on MCO to LGA, 5,149 flights
These figures cover 338 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.7% 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 LGA
Frontier flew 338 of the 5,149 flights on MCO to LGA, about 7% of it. Its 68.8% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 67.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 75.7% to American at 58.4%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Delta Air Lines arrives on time 75.7% of the time; American Airlines manages 58.4%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 901 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 2,162 | 75.7% | 75 min | 4.53% | B− |
| Frontier Airlines (this page)thin sample | 338 | 68.8% | 69 min | 4.14% | C− |
| Spirit Airlines | 544 | 63.5% | 68 min | 6.07% | D− |
| JetBlue Airways | 1,204 | 61.2% | 82 min | 4.07% | D− |
| American Airlines | 901 | 58.4% | 101 min | 3.22% | D− |
Spirit Airlines cancels 6.1% 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.
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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 12 points, against 17 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am5 flights—
- 8am–11am107 flights78.6%
- 11am–2pm168 flights66.3%
- 2pm–5pm31 flights—
- 5pm–8pm26 flights—
- 8pm–5am1 flights—
Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 66.3% on time against 78.6% for 8am–11am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 168 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Frontier on MCO to LGA through the year
- Jul–Sep 202516 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202555 flights66.7%
- Jan–Mar 2026112 flights68.9%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights71.1%
- Jul–Sep 202664 flights60.0%
Scale runs 50% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 68.8% on time across 338 flights.
Frontier on MCO to LGA did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 71.1% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 60.0%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 85 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 80.0% on time and Monday the weakest at 53.7%, a spread of 26 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Frontier on MCO to LGA runs when it is late
Frontier on MCO to LGA often beats the schedule: 96 of 321 completed flights, 30%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 100 late arrivals split 19 under half an hour, 37 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 44 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early96 flights29.9%
- Within 15 min125 flights38.9%
- 15–29 min late19 flights5.9%
- 30–59 min late37 flights11.5%
- 1–2 hours late29 flights9.0%
- 2+ hours late15 flights4.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 321 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
12 of 88 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. In the other direction, 24 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 LGA.
The worst days
Worst days for Frontier on MCO to LGA
The latest arrival of the period was on 5 April 2026, 5 hours 14 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in March 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 5 April 2026 | 5 hours 14 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 March 2026 | 4 hours 16 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 30 June 2026 | 3 hours 47 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 30 March 2026 | 3 hours 2 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 26 March 2026 | 2 hours 52 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Frontier runs late on this route
National Airspace System accounts for 45% of the 6,923 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%National Airspace System
- 26%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%Carrier
- 10%Extreme weather
45% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 3,110 minutes out of 6,923, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 6,923 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 4.14%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
13.7% 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 950 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 56.1% on time across 339 flights, 13 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 13 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 338 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 LGA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.14% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 321 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MCO to LGA, every carrier
- Frontier on LGA to MCO, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on MCO to LGA75.7%
- Spirit Airlines on MCO to LGA63.5%
- JetBlue Airways on MCO to LGA61.2%
- American Airlines on MCO to LGA58.4%
- Frontier Airlines network-wide record
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- LaGuardia (LGA) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
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.