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Southwest Airlines MSY to MCO on-time performance

Southwest Airlines nonstop flights from New Orleans to Orlando · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
77%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.5%
8 flights
Avg arrival delay
14 min
56 min when late
Rank on route
#2 of 3
route average 78% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on MSY to MCO arrived on time 77% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.5% were cancelled, and 7% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #2 of 3 airlines on this route, which averaged 78% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (53%).

On-time trend by month

50%75%100%July 2025: 65.1% on time, 0.0% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 75.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 90.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 81.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 89.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 77.1% on time, 0.7% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 85.1% on time, 0.7% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 80.9% on time, 0.7% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 72.5% on time, 3.2% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 74.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 67.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 72.8% on time, 0.6% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 66.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft53%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)23%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion16%
  • Extreme weather8%
  • Security1%

Other airlines on MSY to MCO

1,585 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 8 cancelled, 9 diverted.

Data: U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 (12 months). Latest month published by BTS: July 2026. How we calculate this.