Flight number record

F9 1563

Frontier Airlines · Orlando to Atlanta

Route: MCO → ATL
Departs: 05:15
Flights: 286
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 1563, check with Frontier Airlines.

F9 1563 lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 40 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 286 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, F9 1563's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 63 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 280 completed flights

Avg delay

42 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.75%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 286 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

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 73 of 286 flights, with 06:00 (71 flights) and 05:25 (33 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 05:1573 flights25.5%
Departs 06:0071 flights24.8%
Departs 05:2533 flights11.5%

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 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 5 points worse at 83.9%. 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 1563 next to MCO to ATL

Every carrier on MCO to ATL combined arrived on time 75.6% of the time across 8,207 flights, so F9 1563 is 8 points ahead of it. Frontier flew 1,180 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 67.7% on time. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 73.2%, which this flight beats by 11 points.

F9 1563 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
F9 1563thin sample	286	83.9%	42 min	1.75%	B
All Frontier Airlines on MCO–ATL	1,180	67.7%	74 min	1.53%	C
All carriers on MCO–ATL	8,207	75.6%	79 min	1.40%	B
Frontier Airlines, whole network	205,332	73.2%	84 min	1.85%	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 Apr–Jun 2026 at 73.1%, a swing of 22 points on roughly 72 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 202560 flights83.3%
Oct–Dec 202568 flights85.1%
Jan–Mar 202679 flights94.7%
Apr–Jun 202679 flights73.1%

Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, F9 1563 did best on Thursday at 91.8% on time and worst on Saturday at 69.4%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why F9 1563 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 55% of the 1,869 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.

National Airspace System
55%
Carrier
38%
Late-arriving aircraft
7%

55% 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 1,035 minutes out of 1,869, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 1,869 delay minutes reported on F9 1563.

Cancellations sit at 1.75% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.35%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.5% 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 286 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. 286 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 1563

For a booking, read F9 1563 as 83.9% on time with 1.75% cancelled over 286 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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