Carrier route record
AAMIA→MCO
American Airlines · Miami to Orlando
- Flights
- 2,993
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 79%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on MIA to MCO sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 8 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 2,993 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so American on MIA to MCO runs 8 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 84 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
69.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,957 completed flights
Avg delay
73 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.10%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
72.1%
Every carrier on MIA to MCO, 3,804 flights
These figures cover 2,993 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
American against every carrier on MIA to MCO
American flew 2,993 of the 3,804 flights on MIA to MCO, most of the route. Its 69.2% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 72.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 85.8% to American at 69.2%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 577 | 85.8% | 72 min | 0.87% | A+ |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 234 | 74.8% | 67 min | 0.00% | C+ |
| American Airlines (this page) | 2,993 | 69.2% | 73 min | 1.10% | C |
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on MIA to MCO
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 35 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–8am344 flights92.7%
- 8am–11am343 flights83.9%
- 11am–2pm324 flights74.7%
- 2pm–5pm463 flights61.0%
- 5pm–8pm692 flights58.0%
- 8pm–5am827 flights65.1%
Scale runs 50% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 58.0% on time, against 92.7% 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 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 827 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on MIA to MCO through the year
July is the worst month at 50.2% on time, 31 points below November, the best at 80.8%. 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 273 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 76.4% on time and Sunday the weakest at 56.7%. 20 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
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 66,000 reported delay minutes.
- 40%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 24%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
40% 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 66,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 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 65,960 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 92.7% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.10% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.10%.
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 192 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 74.8% on time across 2,991 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 2,993 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.
What to do with this
Booking American on MIA to MCO
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. November runs 80.8% on time and July 50.2%, a swing of 31 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 2,957 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MIA to MCO, every carrier
- American on MCO to MIA, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on MIA to MCO85.8%
- Republic Airways on MIA to MCO74.8%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Miami International (MIA) delay statistics
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
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.