Flight number record
F9 1168
Frontier Airlines · Atlanta to Raleigh
- Route
- ATL → RDU
- Departs
- 06:35
- Flights
- 313
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 1168, check with Frontier Airlines.
F9 1168 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 8 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 313 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so F9 1168 runs 8 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 83 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
69.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 306 completed flights
Avg delay
68 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.24%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
11.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 313 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 35 of 313 flights, with 06:40 (32 flights) next.
- Departs 06:3535 flights11.2%
- Departs 06:4032 flights10.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
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 20 points worse at 69.0%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
F9 1168 next to ATL to RDU
Every carrier on ATL to RDU combined arrived on time 80.0% of the time across 4,642 flights, so F9 1168 is 11 points behind it. Frontier flew 646 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 72.7%, which this flight trails by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F9 1168thin sample | 313 | 69.0% | 68 min | 2.24% | C |
| All Frontier Airlines on ATL–RDU | 646 | 60.2% | 74 min | 2.79% | D |
| All carriers on ATL–RDU | 4,642 | 80.0% | 62 min | 1.53% | B |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 213,022 | 72.7% | 84 min | 2.05% | C |
Across the year
F9 1168 quarter by quarter
F9 1168 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 80.3% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 52.6%, a swing of 28 points on roughly 78 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 202521 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202579 flights64.5%
- Jan–Mar 202660 flights52.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights71.4%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights80.3%
Scale runs 45% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, F9 1168 did best on Tuesday at 84.8% on time and worst on Sunday at 54.5%. Each day rests on about 45 flights, so a gap of 30 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late F9 1168 runs when it is late
The 95 late arrivals split 31 under half an hour, 30 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 34 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early66 flights21.6%
- Within 15 min145 flights47.4%
- 15–29 min late31 flights10.1%
- 30–59 min late30 flights9.8%
- 1–2 hours late21 flights6.9%
- 2+ hours late13 flights4.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 306 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 96 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 9 made it up before arrival. 8 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for F9 1168
The latest arrival of the period was on 24 August 2026, 7 hours 39 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 24 August 2026 | 7 hours 39 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 May 2026 | 5 hours 12 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 December 2025 | 4 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 November 2025 | 4 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 March 2026 | 3 hours 39 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why F9 1168 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 64% of the 6,412 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 64%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Carrier
- 7%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
64% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,412 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 64 to one. The split is drawn from 6,412 delay minutes reported on F9 1168.
Cancellations sit at 2.24% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
11.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
Every one of the 313 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. 313 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, F9 1168 is one of the weaker ways to fly ATL to RDU: 11 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.
Related
Where to go next
- ATL to RDU, every carrier and departure
- RDU to ATL, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 2052 on the same route90.5%
- Delta Air Lines 1518 on the same route76.0%
- Frontier Airlines 1670 on the same route50.8%
- Delta Air Lines 2600 on the same route76.9%
- Delta Air Lines 1699 on the same route93.2%
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) delay statistics
- Raleigh-Durham International (RDU) delay statistics
- Frontier Airlines on-time record
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.