Skip to content
WanderNerd
Check a flight

Route Reliability

Houston → Orlando

HOU–MCO · 849 miles · William P. Hobby Airport to Orlando International Airport

82
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
78%
Arrive within 15 minutes
8 min
Average arrival delay
0.8%
Cancelled
2,028
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 78% of the time across 2,028 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

HOU–MCO flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 92% of the time, versus 60% between 9 PM–12 AM.

Tuesday comes out ahead.

A small edge: 79% on time on Tuesdays against 76% on Thursdays.

Recent months have been rougher.

HOU–MCO flights arrived on time 74% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 84% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon79%(297 flights)
  • Tue79%(270 flights)
  • Wed78%(267 flights)
  • Thu76%(297 flights)
  • Fri78%(306 flights)
  • Sat79%(268 flights)
  • Sun78%(303 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM92%(255 flights)
  • 6–9 AM91%(405 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM87%(302 flights)
  • 12–3 PM66%(179 flights)
  • 3–6 PM66%(419 flights)
  • 6–9 PM69%(433 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM60%(15 flights)
On-time trend by month
78%
May

Jun 75% → May 78% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202575%171
July 202568%180
August 202572%145
September 202591%138
October 202579%175
November 202583%179
December 202583%190
January 202689%149
February 202680%141
March 202662%177
April 202682%181
May 202678%182

Same trip, other airports

Keep nerding

Based on 2,028 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.