Flight number record
F9 2280
Frontier Airlines · Cleveland to Orlando
- Route
- CLE → MCO
- Departs
- 21:47
- Flights
- 273
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 2280, check with Frontier Airlines.
F9 2280 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 273 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
73.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 267 completed flights
Avg delay
76 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.83%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
12.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 273 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When F9 2280 flies
F9 2280 flies CLE to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 21:47, used on 58 of 273 flights.
- Departs 21:4758 flights21.2%
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 21:47 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and F9 2280 runs 4 points better at 73.8%. 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 2280 next to CLE to MCO
Every carrier on CLE to MCO combined arrived on time 79.4% of the time across 2,125 flights, so F9 2280 is 6 points behind it. Frontier flew 1,256 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.0% on time. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 72.7%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F9 2280thin sample | 273 | 73.8% | 76 min | 1.83% | C |
| All Frontier Airlines on CLE–MCO | 1,256 | 76.0% | 105 min | 1.35% | B |
| All carriers on CLE–MCO | 2,125 | 79.4% | 97 min | 0.89% | B+ |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 213,022 | 72.7% | 84 min | 2.05% | C |
Across the year
F9 2280 quarter by quarter
F9 2280 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 100.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 56.9%, a swing of 43 points on roughly 55 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 202530 flights100.0%
- Oct–Dec 202564 flights75.0%
- Jan–Mar 202646 flights70.5%
- Apr–Jun 202671 flights77.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights56.9%
Scale runs 50% to 100%.
By weekday, F9 2280 did best on Tuesday at 87.9% on time and worst on Saturday at 63.2%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late F9 2280 runs when it is late
F9 2280 often beats the schedule: 78 of 267 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 70 late arrivals split 20 under half an hour, 17 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 33 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early78 flights29.2%
- Within 15 min119 flights44.6%
- 15–29 min late20 flights7.5%
- 30–59 min late17 flights6.4%
- 1–2 hours late20 flights7.5%
- 2+ hours late13 flights4.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 267 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
15 of 73 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. 12 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for F9 2280
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 November 2025, 6 hours 58 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 14 November 2025 | 6 hours 58 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 July 2026 | 4 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 1 August 2026 | 3 hours 27 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 June 2026 | 3 hours 11 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 November 2025 | 2 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why F9 2280 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 64% of the 5,324 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 64%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 0%Extreme weather
64% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,324 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 64 to one. The split is drawn from 5,324 delay minutes reported on F9 2280.
Cancellations sit at 1.83% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.37%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
12.4% 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 895 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 273 flights under F9 2280 in the data flew CLE 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. 273 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 2280
For a booking, F9 2280 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 12.4% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.
Related
Where to go next
- CLE to MCO, every carrier and departure
- MCO to CLE, the return direction
- United Airlines 2636 on the same route92.5%
- Frontier Airlines 3916 on the same route70.3%
- Frontier Airlines 2668 on the same route82.0%
- Cleveland Hopkins International (CLE) delay statistics
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
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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.