Flight number record
F9 3022
Frontier Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Atlanta
- Route
- DFW → ATL
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 261
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 3022, check with Frontier Airlines.
F9 3022 sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 261 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so F9 3022 runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 54 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 252 completed flights
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.07%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
8.7%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 261 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.7% 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 3022 flies
F9 3022 flies DFW to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 62 of 261 flights, with 10:00 (40 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 06:0062 flights23.8%
- Departs 10:0040 flights15.3%
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 3022 runs 17 points worse at 72.2%. 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 3022 next to DFW to ATL
Every carrier on DFW to ATL combined arrived on time 75.8% of the time across 6,703 flights, so F9 3022 is 4 points behind it. Frontier flew 876 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 65.6% on time. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 73.2%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F9 3022thin sample | 261 | 72.2% | 82 min | 3.07% | C− |
| All Frontier Airlines on DFW–ATL | 876 | 65.6% | 68 min | 2.40% | C |
| All carriers on DFW–ATL | 6,703 | 75.8% | 73 min | 2.79% | B |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 205,332 | 73.2% | 84 min | 1.85% | C |
Across the year
F9 3022 quarter by quarter
F9 3022 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 85.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 59.5%, a swing of 26 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 202579 flights59.5%
- Oct–Dec 202577 flights74.0%
- Jan–Mar 202641 flights85.0%
- Apr–Jun 202664 flights77.0%
Scale runs 50% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, F9 3022 did best on Wednesday at 80.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 60.6%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why F9 3022 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 43% of the 5,760 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.
- 43%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%Carrier
- 26%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
43% 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 5,760 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 43 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 5,760 delay minutes reported on F9 3022.
Cancellations run at 3.07%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
8.7% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 731 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 261 flights under F9 3022 in the data flew DFW 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. 261 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 3022
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on F9 3022: 3.07% of its 261 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to ATL, every carrier and departure
- ATL to DFW, the return direction
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- Delta Air Lines 401 on the same route92.9%
- Delta Air Lines 839 on the same route82.5%
- Delta Air Lines 961 on the same route86.1%
- Delta Air Lines 32 on the same route74.8%
- American Airlines 2749 on the same route57.3%
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) 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.