Flight number record
F9 2298
Frontier Airlines · Atlanta to Philadelphia
- Route
- ATL → PHL
- Departs
- 10:10
- Flights
- 301
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 2298, check with Frontier Airlines.
F9 2298 draws a D. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 301 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so F9 2298 runs 13 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 130 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
64.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 294 completed flights
Avg delay
81 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.99%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
16.3%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 301 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Schedule
When F9 2298 flies
F9 2298 flies ATL to PHL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 10:10, used on 48 of 301 flights. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 10:1048 flights15.9%
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 10:10 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and F9 2298 runs 20 points worse at 64.6%. 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 2298 next to ATL to PHL
Every carrier on ATL to PHL combined arrived on time 74.9% of the time across 5,713 flights, so F9 2298 is 10 points behind it. Frontier flew 1,010 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 62.4% on time. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 73.2%, which this flight trails by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F9 2298thin sample | 301 | 64.6% | 81 min | 1.99% | D |
| All Frontier Airlines on ATL–PHL | 1,010 | 62.4% | 84 min | 2.97% | D |
| All carriers on ATL–PHL | 5,713 | 74.9% | 72 min | 2.84% | C |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 205,332 | 73.2% | 84 min | 1.85% | C |
Across the year
F9 2298 quarter by quarter
F9 2298 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 75.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 38.5%, a swing of 37 points on roughly 75 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 202567 flights38.5%
- Oct–Dec 202577 flights66.7%
- Jan–Mar 202673 flights75.7%
- Apr–Jun 202684 flights73.8%
Scale runs 30% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, F9 2298 did best on Thursday at 81.0% on time and worst on Monday at 51.0%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 30 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why F9 2298 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 49% of the 8,440 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.
- 49%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%Carrier
- 23%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
49% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 8,440 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 14 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 8,440 delay minutes reported on F9 2298.
Cancellations sit at 1.99% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.33%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 16.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
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. 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 301 flights under F9 2298 in the data flew ATL to PHL. 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. 301 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 2298
For a booking, F9 2298 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 16.3% 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
- ATL to PHL, every carrier and departure
- PHL to ATL, the return direction
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- Delta Air Lines 1169 on the same route71.3%
- Delta Air Lines 2065 on the same route63.4%
- Frontier Airlines 3210 on the same route75.6%
- Delta Air Lines 1329 on the same route60.4%
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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.