Flight number record
F9 1303
Frontier Airlines · Tampa to Cincinnati
- Route
- TPA → CVG
- Departs
- 07:45
- Flights
- 276
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 1303, check with Frontier Airlines.
F9 1303 earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 276 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, F9 1303's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 93 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 276 completed flights
Avg delay
84 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 276 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 13 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Schedule
When F9 1303 flies
F9 1303 flies TPA to CVG without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:45, used on 78 of 276 flights.
- Departs 07:4578 flights28.3%
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 07:45 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and F9 1303 runs 3 points worse at 86.6%. 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 1303 next to TPA to CVG
Every carrier on TPA to CVG combined arrived on time 75.1% of the time across 733 flights, so F9 1303 is 12 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 72.7%, which this flight beats by 14 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F9 1303thin sample | 276 | 86.6% | 84 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| All Frontier Airlines on TPA–CVG | 374 | 78.5% | 87 min | 0.27% | B+ |
| All carriers on TPA–CVG | 733 | 75.1% | 96 min | 0.68% | B+ |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 213,022 | 72.7% | 84 min | 2.05% | C |
Across the year
F9 1303 quarter by quarter
F9 1303 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 91.9% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 77.8%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 69 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 202521 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202552 flights84.6%
- Jan–Mar 202654 flights77.8%
- Apr–Jun 202687 flights90.8%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights91.9%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, F9 1303 did best on Saturday at 92.3% on time and worst on Sunday at 80.0%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late F9 1303 runs when it is late
F9 1303 often beats the schedule: 130 of 276 completed flights, 47%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 37 late arrivals split 13 under half an hour, 8 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 16 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early130 flights47.1%
- Within 15 min109 flights39.5%
- 15–29 min late13 flights4.7%
- 30–59 min late8 flights2.9%
- 1–2 hours late11 flights4.0%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 276 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
4 of 33 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 12% of them. 8 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for F9 1303
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 April 2026, 8 hours 7 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in April 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 28 April 2026 | 8 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 April 2026 | 5 hours 17 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 25 January 2026 | 4 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 10 April 2026 | 3 hours 17 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 September 2025 | 2 hours 54 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why F9 1303 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 63% of the 3,094 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 63%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 8%National Airspace System
63% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,094 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 63 to one. The split is drawn from 3,094 delay minutes reported on F9 1303.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
5.8% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 773 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 276 flights under F9 1303 in the data flew TPA to CVG. 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. 276 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 1303
For a booking, F9 1303 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 86.6% on time and 0.00% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- TPA to CVG, every carrier and departure
- CVG to TPA, the return direction
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- Tampa International (TPA) delay statistics
- Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International (CVG) delay statistics
- Frontier Airlines on-time record
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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.