Carrier route record
AAMCO→PHX
American Airlines · Orlando to Phoenix
- Flights
- 796
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 43%
- 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 PHX lands a B+, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That rests on 796 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate American on MCO to PHX from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
78.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 785 completed flights
Avg delay
103 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.63%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.9%
Every carrier on MCO to PHX, 1,844 flights
These figures cover 796 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.4% 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 PHX
American flew 796 of the 1,844 flights on MCO to PHX, about 43% of it. Its 78.0% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 78.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 82.9% to American at 78.0%. One 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 Airlinesthin sample | 207 | 82.9% | 44 min | 0.97% | B+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 841 | 78.9% | 54 min | 0.36% | B+ |
| American Airlines (this page) | 796 | 78.0% | 103 min | 0.63% | B+ |
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on MCO to PHX
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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 23 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am334 flights86.6%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm200 flights80.3%
- 2pm–5pm21 flights—
- 5pm–8pm241 flights63.2%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 63.2% on time, against 86.6% 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 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 334 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on MCO to PHX through the year
July is the worst month at 61.7% on time, 25 points below November, the best at 86.3%. 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. March was the busiest month here, with 91 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 83.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 67.7%, a spread of 16 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on MCO to PHX runs when it is late
American on MCO to PHX often beats the schedule: 280 of 785 completed flights, 36%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 173 late arrivals split 60 under half an hour, 47 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 66 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early280 flights35.7%
- Within 15 min332 flights42.3%
- 15–29 min late60 flights7.6%
- 30–59 min late47 flights6.0%
- 1–2 hours late38 flights4.8%
- 2+ hours late28 flights3.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 785 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
53 of 190 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 28% of them. 36 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on MCO to PHX
The latest arrival of the period was on 15 March 2026, 25 hours 32 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The five worst days are spread across March, January, February and October, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 15 March 2026 | 25 hours 32 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 26 January 2026 | 22 hours 5 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 February 2026 | 21 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 October 2025 | 17 hours 16 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 January 2026 | 14 hours 50 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 18,000 reported delay minutes.
- 39%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 18%Extreme weather
- 10%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 18% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 3.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 17,804 reported delay minutes.
39% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 18,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 2 to one.
Cancellations are rare at 0.63%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.4% 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 close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 1,849 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 71.7% on time across 792 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. 796 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 American on MCO to PHX
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 796 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 78.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 785 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MCO to PHX, every carrier
- American on PHX to MCO, the return leg
- Frontier Airlines on MCO to PHX82.9%
- Southwest Airlines on MCO to PHX78.9%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX) 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.