Flights St. Louis → Orlando
STL → MCO
Route overview
The flight route from St. Louis to Orlando is operated primarily with Boeing 737-300 aircraft and has a relatively high on-time performance rate of 77%, with an average delay of just over ten minutes per flight. The destination airport, which serves millions of passengers annually (50,178,499), accommodates this busy route that sees nearly seven hundred flights throughout the year.
Your rights on this US flight (DOT)
US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under the US DOT rules, if your flight is cancelled or significantly changed and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Amenities for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
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The St. Louis (STL) → Orlando (MCO) route is operated by Southwest Airlines. Across 900 flights monitored in recent months, 75% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 13 minutes. The cancellation rate is 1.56%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 24.5/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Orlando the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from St. Louis the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Orlando: what to expect in this direction
Flying from St. Louis (STL) to Orlando (MCO) heads south-east for about 1,420 km, a flight time of roughly 2h 12m.
Departures from St. Louis on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 39% of STL-MCO flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing St. Louis the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Orlando it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 900 tracked STL-MCO flights, 75% left on time with an average delay of 13 min and a 1.6% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines (WN) | 73% | 6 min | 3.1% |
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Frequently asked questions about STL-MCO
On the St. Louis (STL) -> Orlando (MCO) route, on-time performance is 75% with an average delay of 13 minutes, based on 900 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on St. Louis-Orlando is 1.56% across 900 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: Southwest Airlines.
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US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under US DOT rules, if the airline cancels or significantly changes your flight and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Meals or hotels for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
