On-Time Report

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Carrier month · October 2024

Frontier Airlines in October 2024

73.3%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 October 2024, Frontier Airlines (F9) reported 17,801 scheduled domestic flights. 73.3% arrived on time, 3.1% were cancelled and 0.0% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 85.8% on time and 1.0% cancelled that month, so the carrier was 12.5 points below the combined figure.

A year earlier, in October 2023, it reported 17,270 flights with 73.9% on time: a change of −0.6 points.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 54%, air carrier 31% and national aviation system 14%.

Every scheduled domestic flight reported by Frontier Airlines in October 2024.

October 2024 against a year earlier, the carrier's year and all carriers

MeasureOct 2024Oct 2023F9, 12 months to Jul 2026All carriers, Oct 2024
Arrived on time73.3%73.9%71.6%85.8%
Departed on time74.2%73.4%72.3%85.5%
Cancelled3.1%0.7%1.9%1.0%
Average arrival delay9.9 min11.2 min13.3 min-1.3 min
Scheduled flights a day59357657420,517
Scheduled flights17,80117,270209,405615,497

78 airports and 564 routes had F9 flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

AirportDeparturesOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
DEN Denver2,37475.3%7.2 min1.0%
LAS Las Vegas1,24777.1%8.3 min1.0%
MCO Orlando1,22272.3%2.5 min10.1%
ATL Atlanta1,12575.3%9.8 min2.6%
DFW Dallas/Fort Worth96269.1%13.0 min2.2%
PHL Philadelphia88574.5%11.7 min3.8%
PHX Phoenix81475.9%10.1 min1.0%
CLE Cleveland54677.7%-1.8 min6.2%
SFO San Francisco46764.9%23.9 min1.5%
TPA Tampa46776.2%2.5 min9.9%
RDU Raleigh/Durham42868.9%11.7 min4.2%
SJU San Juan38779.1%2.0 min4.7%
LAX Los Angeles37263.7%22.8 min0.5%
CVG Cincinnati36082.5%1.1 min3.6%
IAH Houston35565.9%19.4 min1.7%

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), October 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesAll carriers, Oct 2024Minutes
Air carrier31.0%42.7%93,544
Late-arriving aircraft54.1%37.4%162,995
National Aviation System13.6%16.3%41,044
Extreme weather1.3%3.4%3,815
Security0.0%0.2%0
301,398 delay minutes on 4,185 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
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Questions and answers

What share of Frontier Airlines flights were on time in October 2024?

73.3% of 17,801 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 85.8% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In October 2023 the carrier reported 17,270 flights with 73.9% on time and 0.7% cancelled, against 73.3% and 3.1% in October 2024.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for October 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for Frontier Airlines · methodology · corrections.