Flight number record

F9 1446

Frontier Airlines · Orlando to Charlotte

Route: MCO → CLT
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 259
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 1446, check with Frontier Airlines.

F9 1446 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 13 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 259 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, F9 1446's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 130 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

90.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 256 completed flights

Avg delay

83 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.16%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 259 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Schedule

When F9 1446 flies

F9 1446 flies MCO to CLT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 31 of 259 flights, with 09:45 (27 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:0031 flights12.0%
Departs 09:4527 flights10.4%

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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and F9 1446 runs level with that at 90.6%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

F9 1446 next to MCO to CLT

Every carrier on MCO to CLT combined arrived on time 78.4% of the time across 4,739 flights, so F9 1446 is 12 points ahead of it. Frontier flew 590 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.6% on time. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 73.2%, which this flight beats by 17 points.

F9 1446 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
F9 1446thin sample	259	90.6%	83 min	1.16%	A
All Frontier Airlines on MCO–CLT	590	80.6%	66 min	1.19%	B
All carriers on MCO–CLT	4,739	78.4%	84 min	1.84%	B
Frontier Airlines, whole network	205,332	73.2%	84 min	1.85%	C

Across the year

F9 1446 quarter by quarter

F9 1446 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 94.4% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 81.7%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 65 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 202561 flights81.7%
Oct–Dec 202555 flights94.4%
Jan–Mar 202672 flights94.4%
Apr–Jun 202671 flights91.5%

Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, F9 1446 did best on Friday at 98.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 84.4%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why F9 1446 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 58% of the 1,997 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Carrier
58%
Late-arriving aircraft
28%
National Airspace System
8%
Extreme weather
5%

The largest share of delay minutes, 58%, 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 1,163 of the 1,997 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,997 delay minutes reported on F9 1446.

Cancellations sit at 1.16% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.3% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

Every one of the 259 flights under F9 1446 in the data flew MCO to CLT. 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. 259 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 1446

For a booking, F9 1446 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 90.6% on time and 1.16% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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