Flight number record

F9 1418

Frontier Airlines · Houston to Orlando

Route: IAH → MCO
Departs: 13:29
Flights: 254
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 1418, check with Frontier Airlines.

F9 1418 lands a B+, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 254 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.

On time

79.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 254 completed flights

Avg delay

110 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

8.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 254 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.7% 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 1418 flies

F9 1418 flies IAH to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:29, used on 35 of 254 flights. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 13:2935 flights13.8%

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 13:29 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and F9 1418 runs level with that at 79.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

F9 1418 next to IAH to MCO

Every carrier on IAH to MCO combined arrived on time 81.6% of the time across 3,669 flights, so F9 1418 is 3 points behind it. Frontier flew 536 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 72.6% on time. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 73.2%, which this flight beats by 6 points.

F9 1418 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
F9 1418thin sample	254	79.1%	110 min	0.00%	B+
All Frontier Airlines on IAH–MCO	536	72.6%	110 min	0.93%	C+
All carriers on IAH–MCO	3,669	81.6%	82 min	1.01%	B
Frontier Airlines, whole network	205,332	73.2%	84 min	1.85%	C

Across the year

F9 1418 quarter by quarter

F9 1418 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 86.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 70.9%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 64 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 202555 flights70.9%
Oct–Dec 202557 flights80.7%
Jan–Mar 202657 flights86.0%
Apr–Jun 202685 flights78.8%

Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, F9 1418 did best on Tuesday at 86.7% on time and worst on Monday at 74.5%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why F9 1418 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 5,850 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
41%
Late-arriving aircraft
32%
National Airspace System
27%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 41%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 2,376 of the 5,850 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,850 delay minutes reported on F9 1418.

Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% 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

8.7% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 854 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 254 flights under F9 1418 in the data flew IAH to MCO. 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. 254 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 1418

For a booking, read F9 1418 as 79.1% on time with 0.00% cancelled over 254 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

Where to go next

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.

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