Flight number record
F9 1418
Frontier Airlines · Houston to Orlando
- Route
- IAH → MCO
- Departs
- 13:29
- Flights
- 291
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 1418, check with Frontier Airlines.
F9 1418 lands a B+, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That rests on 291 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
77.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 289 completed flights
Avg delay
104 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.34%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
10.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 291 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 40 of 291 flights, with 13:16 (32 flights) next.
- Departs 13:2940 flights13.7%
- Departs 13:1632 flights11.0%
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 13:29 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and F9 1418 runs level with that at 77.9%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
F9 1418 next to IAH to MCO
Every carrier on IAH to MCO combined arrived on time 83.2% of the time across 3,569 flights, so F9 1418 is 5 points behind it. Frontier flew 580 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 72.8% on time. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 72.7%, which this flight beats by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F9 1418thin sample | 291 | 77.9% | 104 min | 0.34% | B+ |
| All Frontier Airlines on IAH–MCO | 580 | 72.8% | 104 min | 1.55% | C |
| All carriers on IAH–MCO | 3,569 | 83.2% | 80 min | 1.04% | B |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 213,022 | 72.7% | 84 min | 2.05% | 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 2026 at 65.0%, a swing of 21 points on roughly 58 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 202530 flights80.0%
- Oct–Dec 202557 flights80.7%
- Jan–Mar 202657 flights86.0%
- Apr–Jun 202685 flights78.8%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights65.0%
Scale runs 55% to 90%.
By weekday, F9 1418 did best on Tuesday at 88.9% on time and worst on Thursday at 71.1%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late F9 1418 runs when it is late
F9 1418 often beats the schedule: 114 of 289 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 64 late arrivals split 17 under half an hour, 18 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 29 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early114 flights39.4%
- Within 15 min111 flights38.4%
- 15–29 min late17 flights5.9%
- 30–59 min late18 flights6.2%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights4.2%
- 2+ hours late17 flights5.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 289 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
15 of 63 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. In the other direction, 16 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at MCO.
The worst days
Worst days for F9 1418
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 September 2025, 11 hours 21 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across September, October, June, July and August, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2025 | 11 hours 21 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 October 2025 | 9 hours 13 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 30 June 2026 | 8 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 July 2026 | 6 hours 36 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 28 August 2026 | 3 hours 39 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
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 6,625 reported delay minutes.
- 42%National Airspace System
- 29%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Carrier
- 1%Extreme weather
42% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 2,777 minutes out of 6,625, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 6,625 delay minutes reported on F9 1418.
Cancellations are rare at 0.34%, 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
10.0% 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 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.
Every one of the 291 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. 291 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, F9 1418 is one of the weaker ways to fly IAH to MCO: 5 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.
Related
Where to go next
- IAH to MCO, every carrier and departure
- MCO to IAH, the return direction
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- United Airlines 1571 on the same route84.5%
- United Airlines 2451 on the same route79.8%
- George Bush Intercontinental (IAH) 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.