Orlando (MCO) – Raleigh (RDU)
- Distance
- 860 km
- 534 mi · 464 nm
- Flight time
- 1 h 47 min / 1 h 49 min
- Average gate to gate: MCO → RDU / back
- Time difference
- none
- CO2 per passenger
- 108 kg
- One way, economy, incl. RF (64 kg CO2 only)
- Passengers / year
- 802,656
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 · +20.8%
- Flights / week
- 123
- Both directions, average
- Seats filled
- 78%
- 1,031,401 seats a year
- Airlines nonstop
- 5
- F9, DL, WN
Traffic: U.S. DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (all carriers, scheduled service), Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. Distance: WGS-84 ellipsoid. CO2: UK DESNZ 2026 factors. Sources
The way there
- Heading from MCO
- 15°
- Heading from RDU
- 197°
- Halfway point
- 32.16, -80.10
- Great-circle km
- 862 km (sphere, for EU261)
- In the air MCO → RDU
- 1 h 20 min
- In the air RDU → MCO
- 1 h 21 min
- Clocks
- Same time in both
The estimate for a route without real times is 1 h 50 min; how it is worked out is on Sources.
Show as a table
| Month | Passengers |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 51,452 |
| Sep 2025 | 54,751 |
| Oct 2025 | 67,428 |
| Nov 2025 | 58,970 |
| Dec 2025 | 69,300 |
| Jan 2026 | 62,191 |
| Feb 2026 | 69,591 |
| Mar 2026 | 78,282 |
| Apr 2026 | 75,025 |
| May 2026 | 75,711 |
| Jun 2026 | 72,412 |
| Jul 2026 | 67,543 |
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| Month | Flights |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 453 |
| Sep 2025 | 484 |
| Oct 2025 | 548 |
| Nov 2025 | 473 |
| Dec 2025 | 546 |
| Jan 2026 | 513 |
| Feb 2026 | 551 |
| Mar 2026 | 598 |
| Apr 2026 | 577 |
| May 2026 | 570 |
| Jun 2026 | 549 |
| Jul 2026 | 548 |
Airlines flying MCO–RDU nonstop
| Airline | Flights / week | Share of passengers |
|---|---|---|
| F9Frontier Airlines | 28 | 30% |
| DLDelta Air Lines | 38 | 29% |
| WNSouthwest Airlines | 32 | 24% |
| MXBreeze Aviation Group DBA Breeze | 21 | 16% |
| YXRepublic Airline | 3.8 | 2% |
Both directions, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. Airlines with at least one flight a month. U.S. DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (all carriers, scheduled service). Sources
Aircraft on this route
- Airbus Industrie A320-100/200 · 1,435 flights
- A220-300 BD-500-1A11 · 1,078 flights
- Boeing 737-700/700LR/Max 7 · 826 flights
- Airbus Industrie A320-200n · 616 flights
- Airbus Industrie A319 · 593 flights
- Airbus Industrie A321-200n · 562 flights
- Boeing B737 Max 800 · 449 flights
- Boeing 737-800 · 435 flights
Also carried: 80 tonnes of freight and 0 tonnes of mail a year (passenger and cargo flights).
Punctuality
- On time
- 77.3%
- Arrived within 15 min of schedule
- Average delay
- 19 min
- Late arrivals count, early ones as 0
- Cancelled
- 1.7%
- Flights counted
- 5,408
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
| Airline | On time | Average delay |
|---|---|---|
| DLDelta Air Lines | 79.9% | 18 min |
| WNSouthwest Airlines | 75.6% | 16 min |
| F9Frontier Airlines | 74.9% | 24 min |
| YXRepublic Airline | 82.1% | 11 min |
Delay minutes by cause: airline 28% · aircraft arriving late 51% · air traffic system 18% · weather 3% · security 0%.
Both directions, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. BTS Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance (US domestic flights of the larger US airlines). Sources
What passengers paid
- Average fare, Q1 2026
- $177
- One way, all cabins
- Average over a year
- $163
- Q2 2025 – Q1 2026
- Largest airline
- Delta Air Lines
- 38% of passengers · $231
- Lowest-fare airline
- Frontier Airlines
- 24% of passengers · $102
History, not a price to book: what the average passenger paid per one-way trip in each quarter (Q2 2025 $157 · Q3 2025 $149 · Q4 2025 $165 · Q1 2026 $177).
Fare outlook, Q1 2027: about $181, likely $160–$206
The average fare paid we expect a year after Q1 2026, the newest DOT quarter. On this route, past forecasts made this way fell inside the range 81% of the time over 21 quarters (median error 5.3%). An estimate from US DOT data: not a price you can book, not a guarantee, not advice on when to buy. How the outlook works
Cheapest quarter on this route: Q3, typically 7% below the year's average (9 years of DOT data, without 2020–21).
U.S. DOT Consumer Airfare Report, Table 6 (airline ticket sample, US domestic city pairs; each city here has this one airport). Sources
Delay compensation (EU261 / UK261)
Measured by great-circle distance: 862 km.
Neither EU261 nor UK261 covers this route: it neither starts nor ends in the EU, EEA, Switzerland or the UK. Other countries have their own rules (for example Canada's APPR or Brazil's ANAC rules).
Also owed for a cancellation with less than 14 days' notice or denied boarding. Not owed for extraordinary circumstances. On a connection, the distance to the final destination counts. From 23 October 2027 the EU's Regulation 2026/2202 applies; it keeps these amounts (what changes in 2027). Information, not legal advice.
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