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Carrier route record

ASMCOSFO

Alaska Airlines · Orlando to San Francisco

Flights
340
Period
July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route
23%
Carriers
3
C+GRADE

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Alaska Airlines.

Alaska on MCO to SFO draws a C+. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 340 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so Alaska on MCO to SFO runs 10 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 99 extra late arrivals.

Key figures

On time

67.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 337 completed flights

Avg delay

64 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.88%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

77.6%

Every carrier on MCO to SFO, 1,454 flights

These figures cover 340 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

Alaska against every carrier on MCO to SFO

Alaska flew 340 of the 1,454 flights on MCO to SFO, about 23% of it. Its 67.7% on time is 10 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 77.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 80.9% to Alaska at 67.7%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on MCO to SFO
AirlineFlightsOn timeAvg delayCancelledGrade
Frontier Airlinesthin sample4980.9%76 min4.08%B−
United Airlines1,06580.7%75 min0.38%B+
Alaska Airlines (this page)thin sample34067.7%64 min0.88%C+

Flight by flight

Alaska flight numbers on MCO to SFO

Departure window

When Alaska runs best on this route

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 18 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

  • 5am–8am
  • 8am–11am30 flights53.3%
  • 11am–2pm
  • 2pm–5pm
  • 5pm–8pm96 flights64.6%
  • 8pm–5am214 flights71.1%

Scale runs 45% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The overnight block holds up unusually well at 71.1% on time across 214 flights. Red-eyes fly into empty airspace and empty gates, and they are the first rotation of the aircraft's day rather than the last. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 214 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Alaska on MCO to SFO through the year

On-time rate by calendar month70JF81M70AMJ37J55A83SO72N66D
Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.September best, July worst

July is the worst month at 36.7% on time, 47 points below September, the best at 83.3%. 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. December was the busiest month here, with 44 flights.

Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 75.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 63.3%. 12 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

On-time rate by day of the week63.3Mon69.4Tue68.1Wed63.8Thu70.8Fri75.0Sat63.3Sun
Monday: 63.3 percent on time. Tuesday: 69.4 percent on time. Wednesday: 68.1 percent on time. Thursday: 63.8 percent on time. Friday: 70.8 percent on time. Saturday: 75.0 percent on time. Sunday: 63.3 percent on time

Delay causes

Why Alaska runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 63% of the 6,965 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

  • Late-arriving aircraft
    63%
  • National Airspace System
    23%
  • Carrier
    7%
  • Extreme weather
    7%
  • Security
    0%

63% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 6,965 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 6,965 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.88%, below the national 1.81% 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 12.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

At 2,446 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 84.5% on time across 340 flights, 17 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 17 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 340 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 Alaska on MCO to SFO

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 340 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 67.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 337 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

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Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.