Flight number record
F9 1563
Frontier Airlines · Orlando to Atlanta
- Route
- MCO → ATL
- Departs
- 05:15
- Flights
- 305
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 1563, check with Frontier Airlines.
F9 1563 lands a B, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 40 minutes on average. That rests on 305 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, F9 1563's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 49 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 298 completed flights
Avg delay
41 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.97%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 305 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 1563 flies
F9 1563 flies MCO to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:15, used on 76 of 305 flights, with 07:45 (40 flights) and 06:00 (38 flights) next.
- Departs 05:1576 flights24.9%
- Departs 07:4540 flights13.1%
- Departs 06:0038 flights12.5%
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 05:15 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and F9 1563 runs 7 points worse at 82.2%. 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 1563 next to MCO to ATL
Every carrier on MCO to ATL combined arrived on time 74.9% of the time across 8,259 flights, so F9 1563 is 7 points ahead of it. Frontier flew 1,266 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 67.2% on time. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 72.7%, which this flight beats by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F9 1563thin sample | 305 | 82.2% | 41 min | 1.97% | B |
| All Frontier Airlines on MCO–ATL | 1,266 | 67.2% | 76 min | 2.21% | C |
| All carriers on MCO–ATL | 8,259 | 74.9% | 80 min | 1.65% | C |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 213,022 | 72.7% | 84 min | 2.05% | C |
Across the year
F9 1563 quarter by quarter
F9 1563 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 94.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 71.7%, a swing of 23 points on roughly 76 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 202518 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202568 flights85.1%
- Jan–Mar 202679 flights94.7%
- Apr–Jun 202679 flights73.1%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights71.7%
Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, F9 1563 did best on Tuesday at 96.7% on time and worst on Saturday at 62.8%. Each day rests on about 44 flights, so a gap of 34 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late F9 1563 runs when it is late
F9 1563 often beats the schedule: 147 of 298 completed flights, 49%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 53 late arrivals split 25 under half an hour, 20 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 8 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early147 flights49.3%
- Within 15 min98 flights32.9%
- 15–29 min late25 flights8.4%
- 30–59 min late20 flights6.7%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights2.3%
- 2+ hours late1 flights0.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 298 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 29 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 10 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 34 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 ATL.
The worst days
Worst days for F9 1563
The latest arrival of the period was on 8 March 2026, 2 hours 54 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 8 March 2026 | 2 hours 54 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 July 2026 | 1 hour 59 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 November 2025 | 1 hour 50 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 January 2026 | 1 hour 29 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 August 2026 | 1 hour 24 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why F9 1563 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 54% of the 2,168 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%National Airspace System
- 28%Carrier
- 18%Late-arriving aircraft
54% 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 1,169 minutes out of 2,168, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 2,168 delay minutes reported on F9 1563.
Cancellations sit at 1.97% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.33%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 305 flights under F9 1563 in the data flew MCO to ATL. 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. 305 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
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For a booking, read F9 1563 as 82.2% on time with 1.97% cancelled over 305 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- MCO to ATL, every carrier and departure
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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.