Flight number record
F9 1269
Frontier Airlines · Atlanta to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- ATL → DFW
- Departs
- 14:39
- Flights
- 286
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 1269, check with Frontier Airlines.
F9 1269 draws a D. Roughly one flight in three 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 286 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so F9 1269 runs 14 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 142 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
63.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 282 completed flights
Avg delay
91 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.40%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
18.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 286 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 18.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When F9 1269 flies
F9 1269 flies ATL to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:39, used on 70 of 286 flights, with 14:32 (41 flights) next.
- Departs 14:3970 flights24.5%
- Departs 14:3241 flights14.3%
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 14:39 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and F9 1269 runs 9 points worse at 63.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
F9 1269 next to ATL to DFW
Every carrier on ATL to DFW combined arrived on time 73.9% of the time across 6,672 flights, so F9 1269 is 11 points behind it. Frontier flew 934 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 59.8% on time. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 72.7%, which this flight trails by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F9 1269thin sample | 286 | 63.1% | 91 min | 1.40% | D |
| All Frontier Airlines on ATL–DFW | 934 | 59.8% | 80 min | 1.71% | D |
| All carriers on ATL–DFW | 6,672 | 73.9% | 82 min | 2.50% | C |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 213,022 | 72.7% | 84 min | 2.05% | C |
Across the year
F9 1269 quarter by quarter
F9 1269 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 70.6% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 56.6%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 72 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 202518 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202553 flights66.0%
- Jan–Mar 202670 flights70.6%
- Apr–Jun 202683 flights56.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights56.7%
Scale runs 50% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, F9 1269 did best on Thursday at 68.9% on time and worst on Sunday at 55.6%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late F9 1269 runs when it is late
The 104 late arrivals split 25 under half an hour, 27 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 52 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early69 flights24.5%
- Within 15 min109 flights38.7%
- 15–29 min late25 flights8.9%
- 30–59 min late27 flights9.6%
- 1–2 hours late34 flights12.1%
- 2+ hours late18 flights6.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 282 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
20 of 105 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. In the other direction, 19 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 DFW.
The worst days
Worst days for F9 1269
The latest arrival of the period was on 10 May 2026, 15 hours 7 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 10 May 2026 | 15 hours 7 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 14 June 2026 | 11 hours 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 November 2025 | 6 hours 20 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 19 September 2025 | 5 hours 40 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 September 2025 | 4 hours 53 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why F9 1269 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 9,458 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%National Airspace System
- 17%Carrier
- 3%Extreme weather
50% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 9,458 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 19 to one. The split is drawn from 9,458 delay minutes reported on F9 1269.
Cancellations sit at 1.40% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
18.4% 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.
The 731 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.
Every one of the 286 flights under F9 1269 in the data flew ATL to DFW. 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. 286 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 1269
For a booking, F9 1269 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 18.4% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.
Related
Where to go next
- ATL to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to ATL, the return direction
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- Delta Air Lines 961 on the same route87.8%
- Delta Air Lines 839 on the same route79.8%
- Delta Air Lines 414 on the same route81.5%
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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.