Frontier Airlines in October 2025

77.3%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 2025, Frontier Airlines (F9) reported 16,935 scheduled domestic flights. 77.3% arrived on time, 0.5% were cancelled and 0.1% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 79.1% on time and 0.5% cancelled that month, so the carrier was 1.8 points below the combined figure.

A year earlier, in October 2024, it reported 17,801 flights with 73.3% on time: a change of +4.0 points.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 52%, air carrier 27% and national aviation system 19%.

On time 77.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 22.1%
Cancelled 0.5%
Diverted 0.1%

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

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

Measure	Oct 2025	Oct 2024	F9, 12 months to Jul 2026	All carriers, Oct 2025
Arrived on time	77.3%	73.3%	71.6%	79.1%
Departed on time	78.4%	74.2%	72.3%	80.0%
Cancelled	0.5%	3.1%	1.9%	0.5%
Average arrival delay	9.3 min	9.9 min	13.3 min	5.6 min
Scheduled flights a day	565	593	574	20,195
Scheduled flights	16,935	17,801	209,405	605,844

89 airports and 676 routes had F9 flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

Airport	Departures	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
DEN Denver	2,106	81.4%	2.5 min	0.2%
ATL Atlanta	1,573	71.5%	16.4 min	0.1%
MCO Orlando	1,268	80.9%	4.7 min	0.6%
LAS Las Vegas	1,002	78.9%	5.0 min	0.3%
DFW Dallas/Fort Worth	889	75.9%	4.8 min	0.6%
PHL Philadelphia	720	78.9%	5.8 min	0.3%
PHX Phoenix	686	81.9%	5.5 min	0.1%
LAX Los Angeles	513	74.3%	9.2 min	0.0%
CLE Cleveland	499	83.6%	1.2 min	0.0%
TPA Tampa	462	80.3%	4.1 min	0.9%
ORD Chicago	387	70.8%	26.3 min	0.3%
RDU Raleigh/Durham	359	76.6%	12.3 min	0.8%
IAH Houston	355	72.4%	18.7 min	0.8%
SLC Salt Lake City	322	80.7%	8.4 min	0.3%
JFK New York	301	67.8%	33.5 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), October 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	All carriers, Oct 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	26.8%	34.0%	83,993
Late-arriving aircraft	51.8%	39.7%	162,645
National Aviation System	18.9%	22.9%	59,322
Extreme weather	2.5%	3.3%	7,772
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

313,732 delay minutes on 3,749 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 October 2025?

77.3% of 16,935 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 79.1% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In October 2024 the carrier reported 17,801 flights with 73.3% on time and 3.1% cancelled, against 77.3% and 0.5% in October 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for October 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.