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Route Reliability

Newark → Orlando

EWRMCO · 937 miles · Newark Liberty International Airport to Orlando International Airport

72
Usually Fine
WanderNerd Reliability Score
77%
Arrive within 15 minutes
9 min
Average arrival delay
2.9%
Cancelled
6,654
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Who flies it best

Ranked by on-time arrivals. Historical results, not predictions.

  1. 1.United Airlines79%3,979 flights
  2. 2.JetBlue Airways74%1,399 flights
  3. 3.Spirit Airlines72%1,181 flights

Not enough history to rank: Frontier Airlines (95 flights). We rank airlines only after 100 flights on the route.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

EWR–MCO flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 91% of the time, versus 67% between 9 PM–12 AM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

EWR–MCO flights arrived on time 85% of the time on Tuesdays and just 70% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

United Airlines has a slight edge here.

United Airlines arrived on time 79% of the time on this route; Spirit Airlines managed 72%.

Ticking up lately.

EWR–MCO flights arrived on time 83% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 77% in the three months before that.

Best historical flights

Ranked by on-time arrivals, minimum 100 flights. Past performance, not a promise.

Top flights by on-time rate

More flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon75%(918 flights)
  • Tue85%(887 flights)
  • Wed82%(922 flights)
  • Thu77%(942 flights)
  • Fri77%(959 flights)
  • Sat74%(889 flights)
  • Sun70%(919 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM91%(177 flights)
  • 6–9 AM91%(1143 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM80%(1549 flights)
  • 12–3 PM75%(1237 flights)
  • 3–6 PM68%(1304 flights)
  • 6–9 PM69%(774 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM67%(252 flights)
On-time trend by month
88%
May

Jun 73% → May 88% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202573%433
July 202567%452
August 202569%501
September 202585%494
October 202572%533
November 202577%570
December 202571%595
January 202679%569
February 202681%519
March 202674%631
April 202686%658
May 202688%481

Based on 6,654 historical flights, because apparently we checked. Historical flight data: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 2025 – May 2026. Data through May 2026. How we calculate this.