Flight number record

F9 3054

Frontier Airlines · Atlanta to Tampa

Route: ATL → TPA
Departs: 22:50
Flights: 316
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 3054, check with Frontier Airlines.

F9 3054 draws a D. Roughly one flight in two arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 316 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so F9 3054 runs 19 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 193 extra late arrivals.

On time

58.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 312 completed flights

Avg delay

86 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.27%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

16.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 316 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.0% 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 3054 flies

F9 3054 flies ATL to TPA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:50, used on 90 of 316 flights. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 22:5090 flights28.5%

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 22:50 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and F9 3054 runs 12 points worse at 58.3%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

F9 3054 next to ATL to TPA

Every carrier on ATL to TPA combined arrived on time 73.3% of the time across 6,141 flights, so F9 3054 is 15 points behind it. Frontier flew 870 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 64.9% on time. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 73.2%, which this flight trails by 15 points.

F9 3054 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
F9 3054thin sample	316	58.3%	86 min	1.27%	D
All Frontier Airlines on ATL–TPA	870	64.9%	77 min	1.84%	D
All carriers on ATL–TPA	6,141	73.3%	61 min	1.22%	C
Frontier Airlines, whole network	205,332	73.2%	84 min	1.85%	C

Across the year

F9 3054 quarter by quarter

F9 3054 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 67.1% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 51.9%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 79 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 202575 flights56.2%
Oct–Dec 202579 flights57.1%
Jan–Mar 202677 flights51.9%
Apr–Jun 202685 flights67.1%

Scale runs 45% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, F9 3054 did best on Wednesday at 76.7% on time and worst on Tuesday at 50.0%. Each day rests on about 45 flights, so a gap of 27 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why F9 3054 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 48% of the 11,000 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
48%
Carrier
41%
National Airspace System
9%
Extreme weather
2%

48% 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 11,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 30 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 11,227 delay minutes reported on F9 3054.

Cancellations sit at 1.27% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

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. 16.0% 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.

Every one of the 316 flights under F9 3054 in the data flew ATL to TPA. 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. 316 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 3054

For a booking, F9 3054 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 16.0% 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.

Where to go next

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.

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