Flight number record
F9 1270
Frontier Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Atlanta
- Route
- DFW → ATL
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 292
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 1270, check with Frontier Airlines.
F9 1270 draws a D. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about 45 minutes behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 292 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so F9 1270 runs 15 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 148 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
62.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 288 completed flights
Avg delay
45 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.37%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 292 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. On-time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the same threshold the Department of Transportation uses in its own reports. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and counted separately, which is why the cancellation column matters on its own.
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Schedule
When F9 1270 flies
F9 1270 flies DFW to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 66 of 292 flights, with 06:19 (30 flights) next.
- Departs 06:0066 flights22.6%
- Departs 06:1930 flights10.3%
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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and F9 1270 runs 27 points worse at 62.5%. 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 1270 next to DFW to ATL
Every carrier on DFW to ATL combined arrived on time 75.6% of the time across 6,672 flights, so F9 1270 is 13 points behind it. Frontier flew 935 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 66.2% 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 1270thin sample | 292 | 62.5% | 45 min | 1.37% | D |
| All Frontier Airlines on DFW–ATL | 935 | 66.2% | 72 min | 1.82% | C |
| All carriers on DFW–ATL | 6,672 | 75.6% | 74 min | 2.52% | B |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 213,022 | 72.7% | 84 min | 2.05% | C |
Across the year
F9 1270 quarter by quarter
F9 1270 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 67.0% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 56.8%, a swing of 10 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 202512 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202545 flights56.8%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights67.0%
- Apr–Jun 202690 flights58.9%
- Jul–Sep 202655 flights57.4%
Scale runs 50% to 70%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, F9 1270 did best on Tuesday at 70.7% on time and worst on Monday at 42.5%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 28 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late F9 1270 runs when it is late
The 108 late arrivals split 44 under half an hour, 51 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 13 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early61 flights21.2%
- Within 15 min119 flights41.3%
- 15–29 min late44 flights15.3%
- 30–59 min late51 flights17.7%
- 1–2 hours late9 flights3.1%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 288 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 28 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 10 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 90 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 1270
The latest arrival of the period was on 2 February 2026, 12 hours behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across February, May, November and July, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 2 February 2026 | 12 hours | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 May 2026 | 2 hours 38 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 19 February 2026 | 2 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 November 2025 | 2 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 July 2026 | 1 hour 49 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why F9 1270 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 67% of the 4,826 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 67%National Airspace System
- 18%Late-arriving aircraft
- 13%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
67% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 3,256 minutes out of 4,826, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 4,826 delay minutes reported on F9 1270.
Cancellations sit at 1.37% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.5% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
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 292 flights under F9 1270 in the data flew DFW 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. 292 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 1270
For a booking, F9 1270 is one of the weaker ways to fly DFW to ATL: 13 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
- DFW to ATL, every carrier and departure
- ATL to DFW, the return direction
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- Delta Air Lines 839 on the same route83.7%
- Delta Air Lines 961 on the same route85.4%
- Frontier Airlines 3022 on the same route78.3%
- Delta Air Lines 414 on the same route78.6%
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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.