Frontier Airlines in January 2025

72.0%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 January 2025, Frontier Airlines (F9) reported 15,526 scheduled domestic flights. 72.0% arrived on time, 2.5% were cancelled and 0.2% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 78.6% on time and 3.0% cancelled that month, so the carrier was 6.6 points below the combined figure.

A year earlier, in January 2024, it reported 14,379 flights with 71.2% on time: a change of +0.8 points.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 48%, air carrier 29% and national aviation system 19%.

On time 72.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 25.3%
Cancelled 2.5%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled domestic flight reported by Frontier Airlines in January 2025.

January 2025 against a year earlier, the carrier's year and all carriers

Measure	Jan 2025	Jan 2024	F9, 12 months to Jul 2026	All carriers, Jan 2025
Arrived on time	72.0%	71.2%	71.6%	78.6%
Departed on time	74.9%	73.0%	72.3%	79.3%
Cancelled	2.5%	2.2%	1.9%	3.0%
Average arrival delay	10.8 min	14.7 min	13.3 min	3.8 min
Scheduled flights a day	518	479	574	17,992
Scheduled flights	15,526	14,379	209,405	539,747

80 airports and 624 routes had F9 flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

Airport	Departures	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
DEN Denver	1,657	71.6%	6.4 min	1.4%
MCO Orlando	1,574	81.6%	1.5 min	0.8%
LAS Las Vegas	979	84.3%	-2.6 min	1.2%
ATL Atlanta	906	62.1%	23.5 min	7.1%
PHL Philadelphia	704	57.7%	26.6 min	3.3%
PHX Phoenix	654	84.1%	-0.2 min	0.6%
DFW Dallas/Fort Worth	627	69.2%	9.9 min	7.0%
TPA Tampa	566	74.4%	5.9 min	2.5%
SJU San Juan	512	59.2%	28.0 min	2.1%
CLE Cleveland	499	65.1%	15.8 min	1.8%
LAX Los Angeles	415	73.0%	9.3 min	2.2%
SFO San Francisco	375	74.9%	11.8 min	0.5%
MIA Miami	326	67.5%	14.7 min	1.5%
IAH Houston	312	57.1%	22.2 min	7.1%
CVG Cincinnati	301	76.1%	4.0 min	4.3%

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), January 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	All carriers, Jan 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	29.0%	36.2%	88,123
Late-arriving aircraft	48.4%	34.7%	147,311
National Aviation System	19.0%	19.9%	57,821
Extreme weather	3.6%	9.1%	10,853
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

304,108 delay minutes on 3,925 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 January 2025?

72.0% of 15,526 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 78.6% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In January 2024 the carrier reported 14,379 flights with 71.2% on time and 2.2% cancelled, against 72.0% and 2.5% in January 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for January 2025; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for Frontier Airlines · methodology · corrections.