Flight number record
F9 2292
Frontier Airlines · Chicago to Atlanta
- Route
- MDW → ATL
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 325
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 2292, check with Frontier Airlines.
F9 2292 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 9 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about 45 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 325 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so F9 2292 runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 85 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
69.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 317 completed flights
Avg delay
44 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.15%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
5.4%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 325 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. On-time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the same threshold the Department of Transportation uses in its own reports. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and counted separately, which is why the cancellation column matters on its own.
Schedule
When F9 2292 flies
F9 2292 flies MDW to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 107 of 325 flights, with 06:20 (82 flights) and 06:15 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 06:00107 flights32.9%
- Departs 06:2082 flights25.2%
- Departs 06:1537 flights11.4%
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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and F9 2292 runs 20 points worse at 69.1%. 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 2292 next to MDW to ATL
Every carrier on MDW to ATL combined arrived on time 79.8% of the time across 3,528 flights, so F9 2292 is 11 points behind it. Frontier flew 599 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 71.8% on time. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 73.2%, which this flight trails by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F9 2292thin sample | 325 | 69.1% | 44 min | 2.15% | C |
| All Frontier Airlines on MDW–ATL | 599 | 71.8% | 52 min | 1.67% | C |
| All carriers on MDW–ATL | 3,528 | 79.8% | 65 min | 1.84% | B |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 205,332 | 73.2% | 84 min | 1.85% | C |
Across the year
F9 2292 quarter by quarter
F9 2292 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 80.8% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 49.4%, a swing of 31 points on roughly 81 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 202574 flights72.6%
- Oct–Dec 202580 flights80.8%
- Jan–Mar 202680 flights49.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights73.0%
Scale runs 40% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, F9 2292 did best on Tuesday at 78.1% on time and worst on Thursday at 63.5%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why F9 2292 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 78% of the 4,354 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.
- 78%National Airspace System
- 20%Carrier
- 1%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%Extreme weather
78% 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 3,405 minutes out of 4,354, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 4,354 delay minutes reported on F9 2292.
Cancellations sit at 2.15% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.31%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
5.4% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 45 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 591 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
Every one of the 325 flights under F9 2292 in the data flew MDW 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. 325 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 2292
For a booking, F9 2292 is one of the weaker ways to fly MDW to ATL: 11 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.
Related
Where to go next
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- Chicago Midway International (MDW) delay statistics
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.