Orlando Airport, which day to fly out of?

[funshipm174]

Hello all,

I want to ask opinions on which day to fly out of MCO.We are booking our flight for January and our date option to go home is either Saturday, January 14th, or Sunday, January 15th.

We have flown home out of MCO on Sundays on several occasions and it is always busy, but never on a Saturday.
Prices are basically the same, so money not the issue. Just not sure if Saturday is less crowded then Sunday to go home.

Any thoughts appreciated.

 

[IrishNYC]

It will make little to no difference.

 

[Allison]

Post on the transportation board.

 

[funshipm174]

Post on the transportation board.

My apologies. How do I move it?

 

[Alesia]

My apologies. How do I move it?

You can't, but a mod will probably move it at some point.

But to answer your question, it doesn't matter. There is always a pretty good likelihood that MCO will be a zoo, regardless of the day.

 

[DebbieB]

I flew out on Sunday May 15, it was about 25 min around 11:00am.

 

[WDWNY]

I haven't realized a difference so I would say Sunday and get an extra day

 

[Tonberry]

We've never noticed a difference between either day.
Lately, we've been leaving late Saturday / early Sunday on the redeye. This way we can do a full morning and most afternoon at the parks and hit some last minute rides that we either missed, or just want to do again.
The red eye flights seem to be a little less chaotic than most other times. Still, there's no way to beat those terrible TSA lines......

 

[kaytieeldr]

I would say it depends where you're going and what obligations you have Monday.

 

[OrangeCountyCommuter]

A couple of considerations

1. While everyone on here thinks that all traffic in and out of MCO is other theme park visitors there's actually a LOT of business travel out of there. So you can have some business travel traffic on Sunday.
2. Cruise ship turnover. This happens on Sunday and can create some "road blocks" when the buses dump lots of folks off at once.

As a general rule Saturdays are slower at airports. Vacation people tend to try to stretch vacations by flying to a destination Friday and home Sunday. That said you can never tell, it's a roll of the dice and MCO tends to be snake bit!

 

[Bellhop97]

We flew out on a saturday at the end of Jan.. and it wasn't that crowded and out flight was in the afternoon.

 

[LadyBeBop]

Cruise ship turnover. This happens on Sunday and can create some "road blocks" when the buses dump lots of folks off at once.

But it's not always Sundays. Our next cruise out of Port Canaveral (October 2017) is a Saturday to Saturday cruise. I think there are as many Saturday cruise "road blocks" than Sunday cruise "road blocks."

 

[Woodview]

Another point is that a lot of International flights fly out everyday ........ MCO serves the World ... Not just USA.