Flight number record
F9 2697
Frontier Airlines · Cleveland to Phoenix
- Route
- CLE → PHX
- Departs
- 20:47
- Flights
- 260
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 2697, check with Frontier Airlines.
F9 2697 lands a B, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 260 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
80.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 250 completed flights
Avg delay
100 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.92%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
10.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 260 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When F9 2697 flies
F9 2697 flies CLE to PHX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:47, used on 32 of 260 flights, with 21:17 (32 flights) and 07:30 (29 flights) next.
- Departs 20:4732 flights12.3%
- Departs 21:1732 flights12.3%
- Departs 07:3029 flights11.2%
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 20:47 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and F9 2697 runs 11 points better at 80.8%. 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 2697 next to CLE to PHX
Every carrier on CLE to PHX combined arrived on time 76.2% of the time across 1,011 flights, so F9 2697 is 5 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 72.7%, which this flight beats by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F9 2697thin sample | 260 | 80.8% | 100 min | 1.92% | B |
| All Frontier Airlines on CLE–PHXthin sample | 327 | 77.5% | 88 min | 2.14% | B |
| All carriers on CLE–PHX | 1,011 | 76.2% | 60 min | 0.79% | B+ |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 213,022 | 72.7% | 84 min | 2.05% | C |
Across the year
F9 2697 quarter by quarter
F9 2697 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 87.1% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 75.8%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 65 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 20258 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202533 flights81.8%
- Jan–Mar 202669 flights75.8%
- Apr–Jun 202688 flights87.1%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights76.3%
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, F9 2697 did best on Saturday at 91.7% on time and worst on Friday at 71.1%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late F9 2697 runs when it is late
F9 2697 often beats the schedule: 83 of 250 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When F9 2697 is late it tends to be very late: 25 of its 48 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 10 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early83 flights33.2%
- Within 15 min119 flights47.6%
- 15–29 min late13 flights5.2%
- 30–59 min late10 flights4.0%
- 1–2 hours late15 flights6.0%
- 2+ hours late10 flights4.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 250 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
6 of 41 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. In the other direction, 13 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 PHX.
The worst days
Worst days for F9 2697
The latest arrival of the period was on 1 July 2026, 18 hours 56 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 1 July 2026 | 18 hours 56 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 May 2026 | 4 hours 54 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 November 2025 | 3 hours 54 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 July 2026 | 3 hours 27 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 September 2025 | 2 hours 58 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why F9 2697 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 4,791 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%Carrier
- 18%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
55% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,791 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 34 to one. The split is drawn from 4,791 delay minutes reported on F9 2697.
Cancellations sit at 1.92% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.92%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
10.0% 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.
At 1,737 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.
Every one of the 260 flights under F9 2697 in the data flew CLE to PHX. 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. 260 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
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For a booking, read F9 2697 as 80.8% on time with 1.92% cancelled over 260 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- CLE to PHX, every carrier and departure
- PHX to CLE, the return direction
- Cleveland Hopkins International (CLE) delay statistics
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX) delay statistics
- Frontier Airlines on-time record
- Every Frontier Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.