Carrier route record

YXMIA→MCO

Republic Airways · Miami to Orlando

Flights: 234
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 6%
Carriers: 3

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

Republic on MIA to MCO sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 234 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 577 at 85.8% on time.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Republic on MIA to MCO from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

74.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 234 completed flights

Avg delay

67 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

72.1%

Every carrier on MIA to MCO, 3,804 flights

These figures cover 234 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.

Carrier by carrier

Republic against every carrier on MIA to MCO

Republic flew 234 of the 3,804 flights on MIA to MCO, about 6% of it. Its 74.8% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 72.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 85.8% to American at 69.2%.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Southwest Airlines arrives on time 85.8% of the time; American Airlines manages 69.2%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 2,993 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on MIA to MCO
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Southwest Airlines	577	85.8%	72 min	0.87%	A+
Republic Airways (this page)thin sample	234	74.8%	67 min	0.00%	C+
American Airlines	2,993	69.2%	73 min	1.10%	C

The spread between Southwest and American is 17 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 17 more arrivals inside the on-time window.

Departure window

When Republic runs best on this route

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 43 points, against 17 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am117 flights93.2%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm25 flights—
8pm–5am92 flights50.0%

Scale runs 40% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 50.0% on time, against 93.2% 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 117 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Republic on MIA to MCO through the year

Jul–Sep 2025184 flights71.7%
Oct–Dec 202550 flights86.0%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. 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 74.8% on time across 234 flights.

Split by quarter, Republic on MIA to MCO logged 184 flights in Jul–Sep 2025 and 50 flights in Oct–Dec 2025. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 74.8% annual figure is the one to use.

Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 88.2% on time and Friday the weakest at 70.6%. 18 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why Republic 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 3,940 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
37%
Late-arriving aircraft
34%
National Airspace System
23%
Extreme weather
6%

The largest share of delay minutes, 37%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 1,473 of the 3,940 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,940 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 93.2% on time here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

7.7% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 79.0% on time across 234 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 234 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 Republic on MIA to MCO

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 234 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 74.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 234 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

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.

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