Flight number record
F9 1402
Frontier Airlines · Denver to Nashville
- Route
- DEN → BNA
- Departs
- 07:56
- Flights
- 265
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 1402, check with Frontier Airlines.
F9 1402 lands a B+, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 265 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
80.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 262 completed flights
Avg delay
64 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.75%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 265 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When F9 1402 flies
F9 1402 flies DEN to BNA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:56, used on 31 of 265 flights.
- Departs 07:5631 flights11.7%
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 07:56 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and F9 1402 runs 9 points worse at 80.5%. 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 1402 next to DEN to BNA
Every carrier on DEN to BNA combined arrived on time 74.9% of the time across 3,617 flights, so F9 1402 is 6 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 72.7%, which this flight beats by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F9 1402thin sample | 265 | 80.5% | 64 min | 0.75% | B+ |
| All Frontier Airlines on DEN–BNAthin sample | 318 | 76.8% | 55 min | 0.63% | B+ |
| All carriers on DEN–BNA | 3,617 | 74.9% | 56 min | 0.53% | C+ |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 213,022 | 72.7% | 84 min | 2.05% | C |
Across the year
F9 1402 quarter by quarter
F9 1402 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 86.9% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 73.7%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 66 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 202513 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202552 flights82.7%
- Jan–Mar 202662 flights80.0%
- Apr–Jun 202677 flights73.7%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights86.9%
Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, F9 1402 did best on Sunday at 86.7% on time and worst on Monday at 74.0%. Each day rests on about 38 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late F9 1402 runs when it is late
F9 1402 often beats the schedule: 80 of 262 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 51 late arrivals split 15 under half an hour, 14 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 22 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early80 flights30.5%
- Within 15 min131 flights50.0%
- 15–29 min late15 flights5.7%
- 30–59 min late14 flights5.3%
- 1–2 hours late16 flights6.1%
- 2+ hours late6 flights2.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 262 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 47 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for F9 1402
The latest arrival of the period was on 10 November 2025, 4 hours 37 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across November, June, October and April, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 10 November 2025 | 4 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 June 2026 | 3 hours 5 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 9 November 2025 | 2 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
| 31 October 2025 | 2 hours 21 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 17 April 2026 | 2 hours 16 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why F9 1402 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 3,262 reported delay minutes.
- 34%National Airspace System
- 34%Carrier
- 23%Late-arriving aircraft
- 8%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 34%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,112 of the 3,262 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,262 delay minutes reported on F9 1402.
Cancellations are rare at 0.75%, 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
8.4% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,013 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 265 flights under F9 1402 in the data flew DEN to BNA. 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. 265 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 1402
For a booking, read F9 1402 as 80.5% on time with 0.75% cancelled over 265 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.