Flight number record
F9 3072
Frontier Airlines · Atlanta to Norfolk
- Route
- ATL → ORF
- Departs
- 09:28
- Flights
- 259
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 3072, check with Frontier Airlines.
F9 3072 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 about an hour on average. That rests on 259 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
76.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 253 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.32%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
7.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 259 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 6 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Schedule
When F9 3072 flies
F9 3072 flies ATL to ORF without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:28, used on 41 of 259 flights, with 09:24 (30 flights) and 09:34 (28 flights) next.
- Departs 09:2841 flights15.8%
- Departs 09:2430 flights11.6%
- Departs 09:3428 flights10.8%
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 09:28 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and F9 3072 runs 8 points worse at 76.3%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
F9 3072 next to ATL to ORF
Every carrier on ATL to ORF combined arrived on time 78.7% of the time across 2,946 flights, so F9 3072 is 2 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 3072thin sample | 259 | 76.3% | 67 min | 2.32% | B |
| All Frontier Airlines on ATL–ORFthin sample | 259 | 76.3% | 67 min | 2.32% | B |
| All carriers on ATL–ORF | 2,946 | 78.7% | 56 min | 1.46% | B |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 213,022 | 72.7% | 84 min | 2.05% | C |
Across the year
F9 3072 quarter by quarter
F9 3072 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 81.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 66.7%, a swing of 15 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 flights76.6%
- Jan–Mar 202650 flights66.7%
- Apr–Jun 202682 flights81.7%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights74.6%
Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, F9 3072 did best on Sunday at 83.3% on time and worst on Monday at 68.8%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late F9 3072 runs when it is late
F9 3072 often beats the schedule: 70 of 253 completed flights, 28%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 60 late arrivals split 20 under half an hour, 21 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 19 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early70 flights27.7%
- Within 15 min123 flights48.6%
- 15–29 min late20 flights7.9%
- 30–59 min late21 flights8.3%
- 1–2 hours late9 flights3.6%
- 2+ hours late10 flights4.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 253 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
13 of 67 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. 6 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for F9 3072
The latest arrival of the period was on 12 April 2026, 6 hours 53 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 12 April 2026 | 6 hours 53 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 May 2026 | 4 hours 53 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 January 2026 | 2 hours 53 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 25 September 2025 | 2 hours 36 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 January 2026 | 2 hours 33 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why F9 3072 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 58% of the 3,992 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 58%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
58% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,992 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 30 to one. The split is drawn from 3,992 delay minutes reported on F9 3072.
Cancellations sit at 2.32% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
7.5% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
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 3072 in the data flew ATL to ORF. 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 3072
For a booking, read F9 3072 as 76.3% on time with 2.32% cancelled over 259 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- ATL to ORF, every carrier and departure
- ORF to ATL, 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.