Flight number record
F9 3053
Frontier Airlines · Tampa to Atlanta
- Route
- TPA → ATL
- Departs
- 16:46
- Flights
- 273
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 3053, check with Frontier Airlines.
F9 3053 draws a D. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 273 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so F9 3053 runs 13 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 129 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
64.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 270 completed flights
Avg delay
62 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.10%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
14.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 273 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When F9 3053 flies
F9 3053 flies TPA to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:46, used on 53 of 273 flights, with 19:50 (31 flights) next.
- Departs 16:4653 flights19.4%
- Departs 19:5031 flights11.4%
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 16:46 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and F9 3053 runs 8 points worse at 64.4%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
F9 3053 next to TPA to ATL
Every carrier on TPA to ATL combined arrived on time 79.6% of the time across 6,200 flights, so F9 3053 is 15 points behind it. Frontier flew 934 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 72.3% on time. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 72.7%, which this flight trails by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F9 3053thin sample | 273 | 64.4% | 62 min | 1.10% | D |
| All Frontier Airlines on TPA–ATL | 934 | 72.3% | 60 min | 1.71% | C |
| All carriers on TPA–ATL | 6,200 | 79.6% | 74 min | 1.44% | B |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 213,022 | 72.7% | 84 min | 2.05% | C |
Across the year
F9 3053 quarter by quarter
F9 3053 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 70.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 51.9%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 68 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 202513 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202558 flights70.7%
- Jan–Mar 202666 flights56.9%
- Apr–Jun 202682 flights70.7%
- Jul–Sep 202654 flights51.9%
Scale runs 45% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, F9 3053 did best on Wednesday at 80.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 51.5%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 29 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late F9 3053 runs when it is late
The 96 late arrivals split 32 under half an hour, 25 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 39 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early62 flights23.0%
- Within 15 min112 flights41.5%
- 15–29 min late32 flights11.9%
- 30–59 min late25 flights9.3%
- 1–2 hours late28 flights10.4%
- 2+ hours late11 flights4.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 270 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 61 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. In the other direction, 44 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 3053
The latest arrival of the period was on 5 January 2026, 4 hours 30 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across January, May, August and July, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 5 January 2026 | 4 hours 30 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 May 2026 | 3 hours 31 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 6 August 2026 | 3 hours 26 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 17 July 2026 | 3 hours 5 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 May 2026 | 2 hours 51 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why F9 3053 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 45% of the 5,966 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%National Airspace System
- 36%Late-arriving aircraft
- 17%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
36% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,966 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 20 to one. The split is drawn from 5,966 delay minutes reported on F9 3053.
Cancellations sit at 1.10% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
14.4% 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.
Every one of the 273 flights under F9 3053 in the data flew TPA 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. 273 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 3053
For a booking, F9 3053 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 14.4% 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
- TPA to ATL, every carrier and departure
- ATL to TPA, the return direction
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- Delta Air Lines 1099 on the same route81.2%
- Delta Air Lines 759 on the same route68.1%
- Delta Air Lines 744 on the same route89.1%
- Delta Air Lines 1525 on the same route72.2%
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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.