Route brief · HOU → MCO
Houston → Orlando
$195
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 14 – Oct 17 · 3 nights
Frontier Airlines1 stop
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.
Best time to be in Orlando: Feb–Apr · Oct–Nov. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
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 $195 for 1,375 km each way, that works out to about $71 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 6 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Orlando, this fare ranks 5th — 1.6× the $119 we hold from Dallas. We have 3 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
The 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 30% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $204 then versus $265 now, across 5 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 $141, on Aug 17.
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.
Route facts
- Airports
- Bush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU) ↔ Orlando (MCO) · Sanford (SFB)
- Flight time
- ~4 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,375 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Frontier Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Feb–Apr · Oct–Nov
HOU → MCO, answered.
How far in advance should I book HOU → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Houston 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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