Flight number record
F9 1292
Frontier Airlines · Denver to Minneapolis
- Route
- DEN → MSP
- Departs
- 21:00
- Flights
- 313
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 1292, check with Frontier Airlines.
F9 1292 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 313 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so F9 1292 runs 12 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 120 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
65.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 311 completed flights
Avg delay
73 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.64%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
16.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 313 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 313 flights, with 18:21 (57 flights) and 17:38 (35 flights) next.
- Departs 21:00100 flights31.9%
- Departs 18:2157 flights18.2%
- Departs 17:3835 flights11.2%
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 21:00 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and F9 1292 runs 5 points worse at 65.3%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
F9 1292 next to DEN to MSP
Every carrier on DEN to MSP combined arrived on time 78.5% of the time across 5,828 flights, so F9 1292 is 13 points behind it. Frontier flew 642 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.6% on time. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 72.7%, which this flight trails by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F9 1292thin sample | 313 | 65.3% | 73 min | 0.64% | C+ |
| All Frontier Airlines on DEN–MSP | 642 | 74.6% | 70 min | 0.62% | C+ |
| All carriers on DEN–MSP | 5,828 | 78.5% | 63 min | 0.70% | B+ |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 213,022 | 72.7% | 84 min | 2.05% | 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 Apr–Jun 2026 at 52.6%, a swing of 21 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 202517 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202576 flights71.1%
- Jan–Mar 202684 flights73.5%
- Apr–Jun 202676 flights52.6%
- Jul–Sep 202660 flights62.7%
Scale runs 45% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, F9 1292 did best on Tuesday at 75.0% on time and worst on Friday at 52.1%. Each day rests on about 45 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late F9 1292 runs when it is late
F9 1292 often beats the schedule: 84 of 311 completed flights, 27%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 108 late arrivals split 27 under half an hour, 30 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 51 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early84 flights27.0%
- Within 15 min119 flights38.3%
- 15–29 min late27 flights8.7%
- 30–59 min late30 flights9.6%
- 1–2 hours late36 flights11.6%
- 2+ hours late15 flights4.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 311 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
17 of 115 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. 10 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for F9 1292
The latest arrival of the period was on 8 July 2026, 11 hours 23 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 8 July 2026 | 11 hours 23 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 21 August 2026 | 3 hours 52 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 May 2026 | 3 hours 11 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 July 2026 | 3 hours 7 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 August 2026 | 3 hours 1 minute | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why F9 1292 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 7,926 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%Carrier
- 18%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
55% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 7,926 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 34 to one. The split is drawn from 7,926 delay minutes reported on F9 1292.
Cancellations are rare at 0.64%, below the national 1.89% 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
16.4% 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 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.
Every one of the 313 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. 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 1292
For a booking, F9 1292 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 16.4% 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
- DEN to MSP, every carrier and departure
- MSP to DEN, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 1129 on the same route91.7%
- United Airlines 732 on the same route84.1%
- United Airlines 397 on the same route87.6%
- United Airlines 2076 on the same route74.4%
- 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.