Route brief · DFW → MCO
Dallas → Orlando
$119
−66% vs typical
seasonal median $355 · difference $236
Sep 30 – Oct 3 · 3 nights
Frontier Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $157–$390
- Board rank
- Stronger than 99%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefMCOOrlandoThe theme parks are the point, and the fare war they create is the cheapest way into Florida.Best windowFeb–Apr · Oct–NovAirportsOrlando (MCO) · Sanford (SFB)All routes into OrlandoWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Sep is the cheapest for DFW → MCO. Best time to be there: Feb–Apr · Oct–Nov.
Fares bottom out in September around $119 and peak in March near $454 — a $335 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 4 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip — ticketed under Frontier Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $119 for 1,557 km each way, that works out to about $38 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Of the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Orlando, this is the cheapest right now — 13% under the next one, New York.
The 5 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 47% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $159 then versus $234 now, across 7 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $112, on Oct 16.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Cheapest in Sep · around $119
66% below the $355 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Dallas → Orlando · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- DFW · Love Field (DAL) ↔ Orlando (MCO) · Sanford (SFB)
- Flight time
- ~4 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,557 km each way
- Typical price
- $355 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Frontier Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Feb–Apr · Oct–Nov
DFW → MCO, answered.
Is $119 a good price for Dallas to Orlando?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $355 round-trip. At $119 you're 66% below that, saving about $236, which we rate exceptional for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Dallas to Orlando?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Orlando are Feb–Apr · Oct–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book DFW → Orlando?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 5 months of cached fares, Sep comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Dallas to Orlando?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Frontier Airlines. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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