Columbus to Orlando nonstop
Yes: Southwest, Frontier, Spirit and Republic fly direct from Columbus (CMH) to Orlando (MCO) about 4 times a day, year-round.
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Columbus to Orlando in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 802 miles nonstop, about 2 hr 10 min gate to gate. Flight time is an estimate from the great-circle distance; the filings carry distance, not scheduled elapsed time.
- Seasonality
- Flew every month of the last year: busiest in March 2026 (51 flights a week), quietest in August 2026 (29 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 39 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 45 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 43 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 44 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 40 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 46 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 51 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 43 flights a week
- May 2026: 34 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 32 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 35 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 29 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- Southwest 67%, Frontier 21%, Spirit 10%, Republic 1% (regional operator) of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 5,440 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $50 and $225 one way, median $150. The survey runs a couple of quarters behind, so read it as the shape of the route's pricing rather than today's quote.
- Jul to Sep (Q3 2024): median $125 one way, middle half $50 to $225, 4,312 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $175 one way, middle half $125 to $250, 4,722 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $100 to $275, 5,559 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $150 one way, middle half $50 to $225, 5,440 tickets
Jul to Sep trips were the cheapest (median $125 one way) and Oct to Dec and Jan to Mar trips cost the most (median $175), in the DOT ticket survey for Q3 2024 to Q2 2025. Bars show the middle half of one-way fares; the mark is the median.
Flying the other way? Orlando to Columbus nonstop.
Also nonstop from Columbus (CMH)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Chicago (ORD) about 15 times a day
- Atlanta (ATL) about 9 times a day
- New York (LGA) about 6 times a day
- Detroit (DTW) about 6 times a day
- Boston (BOS) about 5 times a day
- Newark (EWR) about 5 times a day
- Philadelphia (PHL) about 5 times a day
- Washington (DCA) about 5 times a day
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