Flight number record
F9 1292
Frontier Airlines · Denver to Minneapolis
- Route
- DEN → MSP
- Departs
- 21:00
- Flights
- 309
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 1292, check with Frontier Airlines.
F9 1292 draws a D+. Roughly 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 309 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so F9 1292 runs 16 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 159 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
61.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 308 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.32%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
18.2%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 309 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 18.2% 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 1292 flies
F9 1292 flies DEN to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 21:00, used on 100 of 309 flights, with 21:27 (38 flights) and 17:38 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 21:00100 flights32.4%
- Departs 21:2738 flights12.3%
- Departs 17:3835 flights11.3%
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 21:00 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and F9 1292 runs 9 points worse at 61.7%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
Against the route
F9 1292 next to DEN to MSP
Every carrier on DEN to MSP combined arrived on time 77.6% of the time across 5,848 flights, so F9 1292 is 16 points behind it. Frontier flew 618 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 71.7% on time. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 73.2%, which this flight trails by 12 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F9 1292thin sample | 309 | 61.7% | 65 min | 0.32% | D+ |
| All Frontier Airlines on DEN–MSP | 618 | 71.7% | 62 min | 0.49% | C+ |
| All carriers on DEN–MSP | 5,848 | 77.6% | 62 min | 0.68% | B+ |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 205,332 | 73.2% | 84 min | 1.85% | C |
Across the year
F9 1292 quarter by quarter
F9 1292 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 73.5% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 47.9%, a swing of 26 points on roughly 77 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 202573 flights47.9%
- Oct–Dec 202576 flights71.1%
- Jan–Mar 202684 flights73.5%
- Apr–Jun 202676 flights52.6%
Scale runs 40% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, F9 1292 did best on Wednesday at 70.7% on time and worst on Friday at 45.8%. Each day rests on about 44 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why F9 1292 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 60% of the 7,700 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.
- 60%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
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 7,700 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 60 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 7,700 delay minutes reported on F9 1292.
Cancellations are rare at 0.32%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
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. 18.2% 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.
The 680 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
Every one of the 309 flights under F9 1292 in the data flew DEN to MSP. 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. 309 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 1292
For a booking, F9 1292 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 18.2% 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
- DEN to MSP, every carrier and departure
- MSP to DEN, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 1129 on the same route91.2%
- United Airlines 732 on the same route83.5%
- United Airlines 2076 on the same route72.4%
- United Airlines 397 on the same route87.0%
- Denver International (DEN) delay statistics
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.