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Route Reliability

Fort Lauderdale → Orlando

FLLMCO · 177 miles · Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport to Orlando International Airport

82
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
79%
Arrive within 15 minutes
7 min
Average arrival delay
1.1%
Cancelled
1,442
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Who flies it best

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

  1. 1.Southwest Airlines87%624 flights
  2. 2.Spirit Airlines73%796 flights

Not enough history to rank: JetBlue Airways (22 flights). We rank airlines only after 100 flights on the route.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

FLL–MCO flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 92% of the time, versus 56% between 6–9 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

FLL–MCO flights arrived on time 87% of the time on Wednesdays and just 69% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Southwest Airlines runs this route best.

Southwest Airlines arrived on time 87% of the time on this route; Spirit Airlines managed 73%.

Recent months have been rougher.

FLL–MCO flights arrived on time 70% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 78% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon73%(204 flights)
  • Tue85%(204 flights)
  • Wed87%(207 flights)
  • Thu84%(206 flights)
  • Fri76%(206 flights)
  • Sat79%(200 flights)
  • Sun69%(198 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM92%(646 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM89%(55 flights)
  • 12–3 PM66%(101 flights)
  • 3–6 PM73%(270 flights)
  • 6–9 PM56%(170 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM68%(183 flights)
On-time trend by month
84%
May

Jun 82% → May 84% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202582%90
July 202583%93
August 202576%119
September 202592%120
October 202589%120
November 202590%113
December 202576%145
January 202679%154
February 202678%141
March 202657%129
April 202669%120
May 202684%81

Based on 1,442 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.