Flight number record

F9 1953

Frontier Airlines · Aguadilla to Orlando

Route: BQN → MCO
Departs: 03:10
Flights: 313
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 1953, check with Frontier Airlines.

F9 1953 lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 313 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

On time

76.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 304 completed flights

Avg delay

82 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.88%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

9.9%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 313 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.

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Schedule

When F9 1953 flies

F9 1953 flies BQN to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 03:10, used on 58 of 313 flights, with 02:59 (56 flights) and 03:55 (41 flights) next.

Departs 03:1058 flights18.5%
Departs 02:5956 flights17.9%
Departs 03:5541 flights13.1%

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 03:10 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and F9 1953 runs 6 points better at 76.3%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

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Against the route

F9 1953 next to BQN to MCO

Every carrier on BQN to MCO combined arrived on time 79.5% of the time across 1,019 flights, so F9 1953 is 3 points behind it. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 72.7%, which this flight beats by 4 points.

F9 1953 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
F9 1953thin sample	313	76.3%	82 min	2.88%	B
All Frontier Airlines on BQN–MCO	448	77.0%	80 min	2.23%	B
All carriers on BQN–MCO	1,019	79.5%	86 min	2.55%	B
Frontier Airlines, whole network	213,022	72.7%	84 min	2.05%	C

Across the year

F9 1953 quarter by quarter

F9 1953 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 84.2% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 67.2%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 78 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 202523 flights—
Oct–Dec 202578 flights84.2%
Jan–Mar 202659 flights71.4%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights74.7%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights67.2%

Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, F9 1953 did best on Thursday at 92.5% on time and worst on Monday at 67.4%. Each day rests on about 45 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Arrival by arrival

How late F9 1953 runs when it is late

F9 1953 often beats the schedule: 110 of 304 completed flights, 36%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 72 late arrivals split 18 under half an hour, 24 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 30 an hour or more.

15+ min early110 flights36.2%
Within 15 min122 flights40.1%
15–29 min late18 flights5.9%
30–59 min late24 flights7.9%
1–2 hours late24 flights7.9%
2+ hours late6 flights2.0%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 304 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

12 of 82 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. Only 2 left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for F9 1953

The latest arrival of the period was on 16 December 2025, 16 hours 20 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.

The latest arrivals of F9 1953 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
16 December 2025	16 hours 20 minutes	Carrier
15 April 2026	7 hours	Late-arriving aircraft
26 June 2026	6 hours 37 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
28 March 2026	5 hours 50 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
27 March 2026	2 hours 14 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why F9 1953 runs late

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 67% of the 5,898 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
67%
Carrier
27%
National Airspace System
5%
Extreme weather
2%

67% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,898 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 41 to one. The split is drawn from 5,898 delay minutes reported on F9 1953.

Cancellations run at 2.88%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

9.9% 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 1,129 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 313 flights under F9 1953 in the data flew BQN 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. 313 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 1953

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on F9 1953: 2.88% of its 313 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

Key figures