Flight number record
F9 3071
Frontier Airlines · Norfolk to Atlanta
- Route
- ORF → ATL
- Departs
- 12:10
- Flights
- 259
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 3071, check with Frontier Airlines.
F9 3071 lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 259 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
76.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 252 completed flights
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.32%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
9.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 259 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When F9 3071 flies
F9 3071 flies ORF to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:10, used on 38 of 259 flights, with 12:06 (34 flights) next.
- Departs 12:1038 flights14.7%
- Departs 12:0634 flights13.1%
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 12:10 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and F9 3071 runs 2 points worse at 76.2%. 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 3071 next to ORF to ATL
Every carrier on ORF to ATL combined arrived on time 85.1% of the time across 2,946 flights, so F9 3071 is 9 points behind it. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 72.7%, which this flight beats by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F9 3071thin sample | 259 | 76.2% | 82 min | 2.32% | B |
| All Frontier Airlines on ORF–ATLthin sample | 259 | 76.2% | 82 min | 2.32% | B |
| All carriers on ORF–ATL | 2,946 | 85.1% | 83 min | 1.53% | A |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 213,022 | 72.7% | 84 min | 2.05% | C |
Across the year
F9 3071 quarter by quarter
F9 3071 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 85.2% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 67.8%, a swing of 17 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 202517 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202548 flights72.3%
- Jan–Mar 202650 flights75.0%
- Apr–Jun 202682 flights85.2%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights67.8%
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Arrival by arrival
How late F9 3071 runs when it is late
F9 3071 often beats the schedule: 81 of 252 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 60 late arrivals split 18 under half an hour, 18 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 24 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early81 flights32.1%
- Within 15 min111 flights44.0%
- 15–29 min late18 flights7.1%
- 30–59 min late18 flights7.1%
- 1–2 hours late15 flights6.0%
- 2+ hours late9 flights3.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 252 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
13 of 63 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. 10 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for F9 3071
The latest arrival of the period was on 3 January 2026, 15 hours 8 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 3 January 2026 | 15 hours 8 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 April 2026 | 6 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 May 2026 | 4 hours 31 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 29 December 2025 | 3 hours 46 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 25 September 2025 | 2 hours 41 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why F9 3071 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 58% of the 4,912 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 58%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
58% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,912 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 58 to one. The split is drawn from 4,912 delay minutes reported on F9 3071.
Cancellations sit at 2.32% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.39%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
9.5% 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.
The 516 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.
Every one of the 259 flights under F9 3071 in the data flew ORF 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. 259 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 3071
For a booking, F9 3071 is one of the weaker ways to fly ORF to ATL: 9 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.
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Where to go next
- ORF to ATL, every carrier and departure
- ATL to ORF, the return direction
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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.