Flight number record
F9 3216
Frontier Airlines · Los Angeles to Atlanta
- Route
- LAX → ATL
- Departs
- 23:34
- Flights
- 261
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 3216, check with Frontier Airlines.
F9 3216 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 8 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 261 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so F9 3216 runs 8 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 82 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
69.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 256 completed flights
Avg delay
58 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.92%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
7.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 261 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. On-time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the same threshold the Department of Transportation uses in its own reports. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and counted separately, which is why the cancellation column matters on its own.
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Schedule
When F9 3216 flies
F9 3216 flies LAX to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 23:34, used on 58 of 261 flights, with 22:45 (48 flights) and 23:20 (35 flights) next.
- Departs 23:3458 flights22.2%
- Departs 22:4548 flights18.4%
- Departs 23:2035 flights13.4%
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 23:34 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and F9 3216 runs level with that at 69.1%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
F9 3216 next to LAX to ATL
Every carrier on LAX to ATL combined arrived on time 78.6% of the time across 4,843 flights, so F9 3216 is 10 points behind it. Frontier flew 489 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 68.2% on time. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 72.7%, which this flight trails by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F9 3216thin sample | 261 | 69.1% | 58 min | 1.92% | C |
| All Frontier Airlines on LAX–ATL | 489 | 68.2% | 65 min | 1.64% | C |
| All carriers on LAX–ATL | 4,843 | 78.6% | 68 min | 0.89% | B+ |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 213,022 | 72.7% | 84 min | 2.05% | C |
Across the year
F9 3216 quarter by quarter
F9 3216 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 83.6% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 47.2%, a swing of 36 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 202516 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202561 flights53.3%
- Jan–Mar 202638 flights47.2%
- Apr–Jun 202684 flights78.3%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights83.6%
Scale runs 40% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, F9 3216 did best on Thursday at 82.5% on time and worst on Sunday at 59.0%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 24 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late F9 3216 runs when it is late
The 79 late arrivals split 26 under half an hour, 33 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 20 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early63 flights24.6%
- Within 15 min114 flights44.5%
- 15–29 min late26 flights10.2%
- 30–59 min late33 flights12.9%
- 1–2 hours late13 flights5.1%
- 2+ hours late7 flights2.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 256 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 105 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 38 still arrived on time. 12 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for F9 3216
The latest arrival of the period was on 4 August 2026, 9 hours 17 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in March 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2026 | 9 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 March 2026 | 3 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 March 2026 | 3 hours 5 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 March 2026 | 2 hours 36 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 July 2026 | 2 hours 19 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why F9 3216 runs late
Carrier accounts for 53% of the 4,574 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%Carrier
- 33%Late-arriving aircraft
- 13%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 53%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,440 of the 4,574 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,574 delay minutes reported on F9 3216.
Cancellations sit at 1.92% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
7.8% 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.
At 1,947 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.
Every one of the 261 flights under F9 3216 in the data flew LAX 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 3216
For a booking, F9 3216 is one of the weaker ways to fly LAX to ATL: 10 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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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.