Flight number record
F9 1446
Frontier Airlines · Orlando to Charlotte
- Route
- MCO → CLT
- Departs
- 09:38
- Flights
- 271
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 271 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, F9 1446's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 130 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 268 completed flights
Avg delay
114 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.11%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 271 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 1446 flies
F9 1446 flies MCO to CLT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:38, used on 62 of 271 flights, with 06:00 (31 flights) next.
- Departs 09:3862 flights22.9%
- Departs 06:0031 flights11.4%
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 09:38 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and F9 1446 runs 6 points better at 90.3%. 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 1446 next to MCO to CLT
Every carrier on MCO to CLT combined arrived on time 78.6% of the time across 4,735 flights, so F9 1446 is 12 points ahead of it. Frontier flew 679 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.5% on time. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 72.7%, which this flight beats by 18 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F9 1446thin sample | 271 | 90.3% | 114 min | 1.11% | A |
| All Frontier Airlines on MCO–CLT | 679 | 78.5% | 70 min | 1.33% | B |
| All carriers on MCO–CLT | 4,735 | 78.6% | 84 min | 1.92% | B |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 213,022 | 72.7% | 84 min | 2.05% | 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 2026 at 80.0%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 68 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 202517 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202555 flights94.4%
- Jan–Mar 202672 flights94.4%
- Apr–Jun 202671 flights91.5%
- Jul–Sep 202656 flights80.0%
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, F9 1446 ranged from 87.2% on Sunday to 95.9% on Friday. With about 39 flights behind each day, a spread of 9 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late F9 1446 runs when it is late
F9 1446 often beats the schedule: 113 of 268 completed flights, 42%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When F9 1446 is late it tends to be very late: 15 of its 26 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 6 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early113 flights42.2%
- Within 15 min129 flights48.1%
- 15–29 min late7 flights2.6%
- 30–59 min late4 flights1.5%
- 1–2 hours late9 flights3.4%
- 2+ hours late6 flights2.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 268 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 29 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. Only 4 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for F9 1446
The latest arrival of the period was on 17 August 2026, 10 hours 32 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in August 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 17 August 2026 | 10 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 June 2026 | 8 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 August 2026 | 4 hours 10 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 July 2026 | 3 hours 9 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 August 2026 | 2 hours 36 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why F9 1446 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 42% of the 2,952 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 42%Late-arriving aircraft
- 37%Carrier
- 17%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
42% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,952 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 12 to one. The split is drawn from 2,952 delay minutes reported on F9 1446.
Cancellations sit at 1.11% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
5.6% 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 close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
Every one of the 271 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. 271 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: 90.3% on time and 1.11% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- MCO to CLT, every carrier and departure
- CLT to MCO, the return direction
- American Airlines 1896 on the same route93.3%
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Frontier Airlines on-time record
- Every Frontier Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.