Flight number record
F9 3287
Frontier Airlines · New York to Atlanta
- Route
- LGA → ATL
- Departs
- 06:30
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 3287, check with Frontier Airlines.
F9 3287 draws a D−. Roughly one flight in three 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 365 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so F9 3287 runs 15 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 149 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
62.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 343 completed flights
Avg delay
92 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.48%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
18.1%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 18.1% 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 3287 flies
F9 3287 flies LGA to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:30, used on 114 of 365 flights, with 06:20 (63 flights) and 06:29 (46 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 06:30114 flights31.2%
- Departs 06:2063 flights17.3%
- Departs 06:2946 flights12.6%
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 06:30 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and F9 3287 runs 27 points worse at 62.7%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
Against the route
F9 3287 next to LGA to ATL
Every carrier on LGA to ATL combined arrived on time 76.6% of the time across 8,343 flights, so F9 3287 is 14 points behind it. Frontier flew 889 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 58.4% on time. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 73.2%, which this flight trails by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F9 3287 | 365 | 62.7% | 92 min | 5.48% | D− |
| All Frontier Airlines on LGA–ATL | 889 | 58.4% | 106 min | 5.74% | D− |
| All carriers on LGA–ATL | 8,343 | 76.6% | 78 min | 3.67% | B− |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 205,332 | 73.2% | 84 min | 1.85% | C |
Across the year
F9 3287 quarter by quarter
F9 3287 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 67.1% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 54.7%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 91 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 202592 flights65.1%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights67.1%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights64.0%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights54.7%
Scale runs 45% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, F9 3287 did best on Thursday at 78.0% on time and worst on Saturday at 52.1%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 26 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why F9 3287 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 58% of the 12,000 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.
- 58%Carrier
- 21%National Airspace System
- 20%Late-arriving aircraft
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 58%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 6,789 of the 12,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 11,800 delay minutes reported on F9 3287.
Cancellations run at 5.48%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twenty cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
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. 18.1% 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.
The 762 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
Every one of the 365 flights under F9 3287 in the data flew LGA 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. 365 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 3287
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on F9 3287: 5.48% of its 365 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- LGA to ATL, every carrier and departure
- ATL to LGA, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 550 on the same route89.8%
- Delta Air Lines 992 on the same route86.8%
- Delta Air Lines 968 on the same route74.3%
- Delta Air Lines 342 on the same route93.1%
- Delta Air Lines 993 on the same route84.0%
- Delta Air Lines 974 on the same route79.6%
- LaGuardia (LGA) delay statistics
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) delay statistics
- Frontier Airlines on-time record
- Every Frontier Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.