Flight number record
F9 2297
Frontier Airlines · Philadelphia to Atlanta
- Route
- PHL → ATL
- Departs
- 08:30
- Flights
- 254
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 2297, check with Frontier Airlines.
F9 2297 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 254 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so F9 2297 runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 66 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 249 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.97%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 254 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When F9 2297 flies
F9 2297 flies PHL to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:30, used on 102 of 254 flights, with 09:17 (27 flights) next.
- Departs 08:30102 flights40.2%
- Departs 09:1727 flights10.6%
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 08:30 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and F9 2297 runs 13 points worse at 70.7%. 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 2297 next to PHL to ATL
Every carrier on PHL to ATL combined arrived on time 78.0% of the time across 5,793 flights, so F9 2297 is 7 points behind it. Frontier flew 1,082 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 66.7% on time. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 72.7%, which this flight trails by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F9 2297thin sample | 254 | 70.7% | 67 min | 1.97% | C |
| All Frontier Airlines on PHL–ATL | 1,082 | 66.7% | 71 min | 2.77% | C |
| All carriers on PHL–ATL | 5,793 | 78.0% | 71 min | 3.11% | B− |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 213,022 | 72.7% | 84 min | 2.05% | C |
Across the year
F9 2297 quarter by quarter
F9 2297 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 75.6% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 61.0%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 64 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.
- Oct–Dec 202541 flights61.0%
- Jan–Mar 202672 flights68.1%
- Apr–Jun 202679 flights75.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights73.8%
Scale runs 55% to 80%.
By weekday, F9 2297 did best on Tuesday at 90.0% on time and worst on Monday at 57.9%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 32 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late F9 2297 runs when it is late
F9 2297 often beats the schedule: 85 of 249 completed flights, 34%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 73 late arrivals split 30 under half an hour, 23 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 20 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early85 flights34.1%
- Within 15 min91 flights36.5%
- 15–29 min late30 flights12.0%
- 30–59 min late23 flights9.2%
- 1–2 hours late11 flights4.4%
- 2+ hours late9 flights3.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 249 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
11 of 57 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. In the other direction, 27 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 2297
The latest arrival of the period was on 1 December 2025, 9 hours 50 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across December, April, July and November, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 1 December 2025 | 9 hours 50 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 April 2026 | 9 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 July 2026 | 6 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 July 2026 | 3 hours 20 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 November 2025 | 2 hours 52 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why F9 2297 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 4,898 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 22%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,898 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 33 to one. The split is drawn from 4,898 delay minutes reported on F9 2297.
Cancellations sit at 1.97% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
8.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 666 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 254 flights under F9 2297 in the data flew PHL 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. 254 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 2297
For a booking, F9 2297 is one of the weaker ways to fly PHL to ATL: 7 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
- PHL to ATL, every carrier and departure
- ATL to PHL, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 1152 on the same route85.8%
- Delta Air Lines 2270 on the same route87.3%
- Frontier Airlines 2551 on the same route73.0%
- Delta Air Lines 1180 on the same route85.0%
- Delta Air Lines 1269 on the same route90.4%
- Delta Air Lines 1100 on the same route83.9%
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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.