Frontier Airlines in December 2023

77.4%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 December 2023, Frontier Airlines (F9) reported 15,698 scheduled domestic flights. 77.4% arrived on time, 0.5% were cancelled and 0.1% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 83.8% on time and 0.4% cancelled that month, so the carrier was 6.4 points below the combined figure.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 53%, air carrier 30% and national aviation system 16%.

On time 77.4%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 22.0%
Cancelled 0.5%
Diverted 0.1%

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

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

Measure	Dec 2023	Year earlier	F9, 12 months to Jul 2026	All carriers, Dec 2023
Arrived on time	77.4%	—	71.6%	83.8%
Departed on time	76.9%	—	72.3%	83.1%
Cancelled	0.5%	—	1.9%	0.4%
Average arrival delay	7.4 min	—	13.3 min	0.5 min
Scheduled flights a day	523	—	574	19,013
Scheduled flights	15,698	—	209,405	570,394

73 airports and 466 routes had F9 flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

Airport	Departures	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MCO Orlando	1,976	75.5%	9.5 min	0.2%
DEN Denver	1,793	80.8%	1.3 min	0.1%
PHL Philadelphia	955	70.5%	12.8 min	0.5%
ATL Atlanta	867	72.3%	12.9 min	0.6%
LAS Las Vegas	820	82.9%	1.5 min	0.0%
PHX Phoenix	760	84.7%	3.3 min	0.0%
DFW Dallas/Fort Worth	629	82.8%	2.4 min	0.0%
TPA Tampa	627	79.3%	1.7 min	0.5%
CLE Cleveland	493	70.6%	15.9 min	0.8%
SJU San Juan	485	72.8%	13.6 min	0.4%
RSW Fort Myers	422	69.9%	13.0 min	2.1%
CVG Cincinnati	414	84.8%	-2.8 min	0.7%
MDW Chicago	339	74.0%	18.8 min	1.8%
MIA Miami	322	80.1%	2.8 min	0.3%
SFO San Francisco	298	69.1%	14.0 min	0.3%

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), December 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	All carriers, Dec 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	29.7%	37.1%	75,309
Late-arriving aircraft	52.9%	38.8%	133,908
National Aviation System	16.3%	17.6%	41,311
Extreme weather	1.0%	6.2%	2,629
Security	0.0%	0.3%	0

253,157 delay minutes on 3,453 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 December 2023?

77.4% of 15,698 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 83.8% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

December 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 December 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.