MCO is a zoo, to and from, no matter where you're leaving from. I'm doing a large quantity of NW DTW-MCO MRs (this hub captive is desperate), and I've experienced the zoo named MCO, and I presume it's the same for all carriers. The week before school started was the primer... ex-DTW, standbys, trying to seat families together, slow deboarding, people lined up in the jetway waiting for gate-checked strollers (heavy rain during deboarding). On the turn-around ex-MCO, my later flight was cancelled, and I was (thankfully) able to stand-by on the earlier return... severely deluged GAs, it's almost impossible to turn around a 757 in 70 minutes (given the type of pax travelling). I can only imagine what it was like trying to put almost 200 pax up in hotels that night. Week-day was a bit better, with road-warriors. But anything that resembles family-day (any time school is out, weekends, holidays, etc) is going to be a zoo. Too many ir-rops-type pax, too few GAs.

Steve B.