Flight number record
F9 1241
Frontier Airlines · Orlando to Atlanta
- Route
- MCO → ATL
- Departs
- 09:56
- Flights
- 263
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 1241, check with Frontier Airlines.
F9 1241 draws a C. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 263 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so F9 1241 runs 10 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 102 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
67.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 258 completed flights
Avg delay
73 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.90%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
11.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 263 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When F9 1241 flies
F9 1241 flies MCO to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:56, used on 35 of 263 flights, with 10:00 (32 flights) next.
- Departs 09:5635 flights13.3%
- Departs 10:0032 flights12.2%
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 09:56 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and F9 1241 runs 17 points worse at 67.1%. 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 1241 next to MCO to ATL
Every carrier on MCO to ATL combined arrived on time 74.9% of the time across 8,259 flights, so F9 1241 is 8 points behind it. Frontier flew 1,266 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 67.2% on time. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 72.7%, which this flight trails by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F9 1241thin sample | 263 | 67.1% | 73 min | 1.90% | C |
| All Frontier Airlines on MCO–ATL | 1,266 | 67.2% | 76 min | 2.21% | C |
| All carriers on MCO–ATL | 8,259 | 74.9% | 80 min | 1.65% | C |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 213,022 | 72.7% | 84 min | 2.05% | C |
Across the year
F9 1241 quarter by quarter
F9 1241 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 75.6% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 53.1%, a swing of 22 points on roughly 66 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 202520 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202548 flights60.4%
- Jan–Mar 202650 flights53.1%
- Apr–Jun 202683 flights75.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights71.2%
Scale runs 45% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, F9 1241 did best on Wednesday at 75.8% on time and worst on Tuesday at 60.0%. Each day rests on about 38 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late F9 1241 runs when it is late
F9 1241 often beats the schedule: 65 of 258 completed flights, 25%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 85 late arrivals split 28 under half an hour, 28 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 29 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early65 flights25.2%
- Within 15 min108 flights41.9%
- 15–29 min late28 flights10.9%
- 30–59 min late28 flights10.9%
- 1–2 hours late18 flights7.0%
- 2+ hours late11 flights4.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 258 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 55 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 6 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 36 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at ATL.
The worst days
Worst days for F9 1241
The latest arrival of the period was on 25 June 2026, 11 hours 32 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 25 June 2026 | 11 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 October 2025 | 8 hours 4 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 February 2026 | 7 hours 29 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 March 2026 | 3 hours 39 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 September 2025 | 3 hours 18 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why F9 1241 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 56% of the 6,223 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 56%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%National Airspace System
- 16%Carrier
- 0%Extreme weather
56% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,223 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 56 to one. The split is drawn from 6,223 delay minutes reported on F9 1241.
Cancellations sit at 1.90% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
11.2% 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 263 flights under F9 1241 in the data flew MCO to ATL. 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. 263 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 1241
For a booking, F9 1241 is one of the weaker ways to fly MCO to ATL: 8 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.
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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.