The sector is held by Breeze Airways, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines and Southwest Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
MCO Orlando to RDU Raleigh
Orlando International, the United States, to Raleigh Durham, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 10.4 times a day
- Great circle
- 862 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 36m
- Door to door
- 8h 21m
What MCO to RDU looks like
The MCO to RDU sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Orlando MCO to Raleigh RDU is a short sector of 862 km by great circle, flown nonstop 10.4 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 862 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 36m.
Orlando MCO is a major hub in the network held here, 177 scheduled destinations and 539.2 departures a day. Raleigh RDU has 152 destinations and 243.8 departures a day.
Orlando and Raleigh keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
The pair sits inside the Americas, a corridor where the site already publishes 13 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on MCO to RDU from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCO to RDU | 10.43 | 73 | Breeze Airways, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines, Southwest Airlines |
| RDU to MCO | 10.14 | 71 | Breeze Airways, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines, Southwest Airlines |
4 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 10.4 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 144 departures a week on MCO to RDU, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 1h 36m block time on MCO to RDU. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to MCO | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At MCO before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| MCO to RDU in the air, estimated | 96 min | 6h 06m |
| Formalities at RDU | 90 min | 7h 36m |
| Delivery run in Raleigh | 45 min | 8h 21m |
| Door to door | 501 min | 8h 21m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for MCO to RDU is 8h 21m.
A courier who leaves Orlando at 09:00 local is on the ground in Raleigh at about 10:36 local and at the door by 12:51 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Raleigh, the last useful departure from Orlando is around 14:09 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 52 of them join MCO to RDU.
| Connecting at | MCO to hub, flights a day | Hub to RDU, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tampa TPA | 1.29 | 5.57 | 1,077 | 3h 39m |
| Charlotte CLT | 14.29 | 10 | 964 | 3h 55m |
| Fort Lauderdale FLL | 6.14 | 5 | 1,384 | 4h 04m |
| Birmingham BHM | 2 | 0.57 | 1,543 | 4h 16m |
| Atlanta ATL | 25.57 | 14 | 1,223 | 4h 19m |
| Washington DC DCA | 14.29 | 9.57 | 1,589 | 4h 21m |
With 10.4 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
52 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Tampa TPA, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through TPA the routing covers 1,077 km against the 862 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 39m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 03m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Charlotte CLT at 3h 55m and Fort Lauderdale FLL at 4h 04m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Orlando, Tampa TPA is 130 km away by great circle and carries 130 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Raleigh, Charlotte CLT is 209 km away by great circle and carries 219 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Orlando to Raleigh yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for MCO to RDU in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
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