Flight number record

F9 1168

Frontier Airlines · Atlanta to Raleigh

Route: ATL → RDU
Departs: 06:35
Flights: 291
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 1168, check with Frontier Airlines.

F9 1168 draws a C. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 291 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so F9 1168 runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 112 extra late arrivals.

On time

66.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 283 completed flights

Avg delay

66 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.75%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

12.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 291 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.4% 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 1168 flies

F9 1168 flies ATL to RDU without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:35, used on 32 of 291 flights. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:3532 flights11.0%

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 06:35 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and F9 1168 runs 23 points worse at 66.4%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

F9 1168 next to ATL to RDU

Every carrier on ATL to RDU combined arrived on time 80.4% of the time across 4,617 flights, so F9 1168 is 14 points behind it. Frontier flew 571 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 60.2% on time. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 73.2%, which this flight trails by 7 points.

F9 1168 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
F9 1168thin sample	291	66.4%	66 min	2.75%	C
All Frontier Airlines on ATL–RDU	571	60.2%	75 min	2.80%	D
All carriers on ATL–RDU	4,617	80.4%	61 min	1.43%	B
Frontier Airlines, whole network	205,332	73.2%	84 min	1.85%	C

Across the year

F9 1168 quarter by quarter

F9 1168 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 74.6% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 52.6%, a swing of 22 points on roughly 73 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 202561 flights74.6%
Oct–Dec 202579 flights64.5%
Jan–Mar 202660 flights52.6%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights71.4%

Scale runs 45% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, F9 1168 did best on Tuesday at 86.8% on time and worst on Monday at 56.5%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 30 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why F9 1168 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 60% of the 6,289 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
60%
Carrier
32%
National Airspace System
7%
Extreme weather
1%

60% 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 6,289 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 51 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 6,289 delay minutes reported on F9 1168.

Cancellations run at 2.75%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 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. 12.4% 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.

Every one of the 291 flights under F9 1168 in the data flew ATL to RDU. 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. 291 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 1168

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on F9 1168: 2.75% of its 291 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

Where to go next

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.

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