Flight number record
F9 1082
Frontier Airlines · Atlanta to Washington
- Route
- ATL → IAD
- Departs
- 22:23
- Flights
- 255
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 1082, check with Frontier Airlines.
F9 1082 draws a D−. Roughly one flight in two arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 255 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so F9 1082 runs 19 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 188 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
58.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 245 completed flights
Avg delay
91 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.92%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
19.6%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 255 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 19.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Schedule
When F9 1082 flies
F9 1082 flies ATL to IAD without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:23, used on 38 of 255 flights, with 08:17 (34 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 22:2338 flights14.9%
- Departs 08:1734 flights13.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 22:23 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and F9 1082 runs 12 points worse at 58.8%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
Against the route
F9 1082 next to ATL to IAD
Every carrier on ATL to IAD combined arrived on time 76.5% of the time across 3,979 flights, so F9 1082 is 18 points behind it. Frontier flew 640 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 63.0% on time. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 73.2%, which this flight trails by 14 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F9 1082thin sample | 255 | 58.8% | 91 min | 3.92% | D− |
| All Frontier Airlines on ATL–IAD | 640 | 63.0% | 86 min | 2.19% | D |
| All carriers on ATL–IAD | 3,979 | 76.5% | 81 min | 1.99% | B |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 205,332 | 73.2% | 84 min | 1.85% | C |
Across the year
F9 1082 quarter by quarter
F9 1082 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 83.1% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 41.0%, a swing of 42 points on roughly 64 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
- Jul–Sep 202566 flights41.0%
- Oct–Dec 202550 flights53.1%
- Jan–Mar 202661 flights50.0%
- Apr–Jun 202678 flights83.1%
Scale runs 35% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, F9 1082 did best on Thursday at 74.5% on time and worst on Monday at 47.9%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 27 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why F9 1082 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 56% of the 9,139 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 56%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%Carrier
- 7%National Airspace System
- 7%Extreme weather
56% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 9,139 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 9,139 delay minutes reported on F9 1082.
Cancellations run at 3.92%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 19.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 534 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
Every one of the 255 flights under F9 1082 in the data flew ATL to IAD. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 255 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking F9 1082
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on F9 1082: 3.92% of its 255 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- ATL to IAD, every carrier and departure
- IAD to ATL, the return direction
- United Airlines 1831 on the same route77.2%
- Delta Air Lines 2549 on the same route75.0%
- United Airlines 632 on the same route86.3%
- United Airlines 2634 on the same route76.8%
- Delta Air Lines 1309 on the same route73.5%
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) delay statistics
- Washington Dulles International (IAD) delay statistics
- Frontier Airlines on-time record
- Every Frontier Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
A flight number here means Frontier Airlines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.