Frontier Airlines in September 2023

71.1%arrived on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In September 2023, Frontier Airlines (F9) reported 16,353 scheduled domestic flights. 71.1% arrived on time, 2.0% were cancelled and 0.2% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 80.1% on time and 1.2% cancelled that month, so the carrier was 9.0 points below the combined figure.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 54%, air carrier 28% and national aviation system 16%.

On time 71.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 26.7%
Cancelled 2.0%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled domestic flight reported by Frontier Airlines in September 2023.

September 2023 against a year earlier, the carrier's year and all carriers

Measure	Sep 2023	Year earlier	F9, 12 months to Jul 2026	All carriers, Sep 2023
Arrived on time	71.1%	—	71.6%	80.1%
Departed on time	72.2%	—	72.3%	80.5%
Cancelled	2.0%	—	1.9%	1.2%
Average arrival delay	14.1 min	—	13.3 min	5.4 min
Scheduled flights a day	545	—	574	18,978
Scheduled flights	16,353	—	209,405	569,338

77 airports and 479 routes had F9 flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

Airport	Departures	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
DEN Denver	2,105	76.8%	8.8 min	0.9%
MCO Orlando	1,634	67.1%	19.0 min	2.0%
LAS Las Vegas	1,348	76.2%	6.6 min	1.6%
ATL Atlanta	1,073	61.8%	21.1 min	2.0%
PHL Philadelphia	1,040	65.2%	19.6 min	3.8%
PHX Phoenix	800	77.3%	10.7 min	0.9%
DFW Dallas/Fort Worth	694	61.4%	26.4 min	1.6%
TPA Tampa	568	77.6%	4.3 min	2.5%
CLE Cleveland	527	68.1%	20.8 min	1.9%
RDU Raleigh/Durham	495	65.5%	19.5 min	2.8%
MDW Chicago	440	68.0%	12.3 min	3.6%
CVG Cincinnati	349	76.2%	4.7 min	1.7%
SFO San Francisco	331	78.9%	6.6 min	1.2%
SJU San Juan	286	66.1%	27.2 min	1.7%
CLT Charlotte	277	58.5%	40.6 min	4.0%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of F9 flights that arrived on time, by scheduled departure hour (local time at each origin), September 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	All carriers, Sep 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	28.4%	36.4%	95,964
Late-arriving aircraft	53.9%	38.3%	181,739
National Aviation System	15.7%	19.9%	52,859
Extreme weather	2.0%	5.1%	6,783
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

337,345 delay minutes on 4,371 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

What share of Frontier Airlines flights were on time in September 2023?

71.1% of 16,353 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 80.1% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

September 2022 is outside the 36 months on file, or the carrier did not report that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for September 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for Frontier Airlines · methodology · corrections.