Flight number record
F9 3288
Frontier Airlines · Atlanta to New York
- Route
- ATL → LGA
- Departs
- 21:00
- Flights
- 361
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 3288, check with Frontier Airlines.
F9 3288 earns an F−, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 40.8% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 37 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. Late arrivals average close to two hours. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 27 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so F9 3288 runs 37 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 368 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
40.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 333 completed flights
Avg delay
107 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
6.65%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
30.3%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 361 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 30.3% 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 3288 flies
F9 3288 flies ATL to LGA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 21:00, used on 104 of 361 flights, with 20:57 (54 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 21:00104 flights28.8%
- Departs 20:5754 flights15.0%
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 21:00 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and F9 3288 runs 30 points worse at 40.8%. 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 3288 next to ATL to LGA
Every carrier on ATL to LGA combined arrived on time 73.4% of the time across 8,344 flights, so F9 3288 is 33 points behind it. Frontier flew 888 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 51.8% on time. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 73.2%, which this flight trails by 32 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F9 3288thin sample | 361 | 40.8% | 107 min | 6.65% | F− |
| All Frontier Airlines on ATL–LGA | 888 | 51.8% | 100 min | 5.07% | F− |
| All carriers on ATL–LGA | 8,344 | 73.4% | 75 min | 3.61% | C− |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 205,332 | 73.2% | 84 min | 1.85% | C |
Across the year
F9 3288 quarter by quarter
F9 3288 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 49.4% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 28.6%, a swing of 21 points on roughly 90 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 202588 flights49.4%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights43.0%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights42.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights28.6%
Scale runs 20% to 55%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, F9 3288 did best on Saturday at 50.0% on time and worst on Monday at 25.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why F9 3288 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 21,000 reported delay minutes.
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%National Airspace System
- 27%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
37% 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 21,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 15 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 21,159 delay minutes reported on F9 3288.
Cancellations run at 6.65%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in fifteen 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. 30.3% 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 361 flights under F9 3288 in the data flew ATL to LGA. 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. 361 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 3288
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on F9 3288: 6.65% of its 361 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs close to two hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- ATL to LGA, every carrier and departure
- LGA to ATL, the return direction
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- Delta Air Lines 997 on the same route66.2%
- Delta Air Lines 513 on the same route88.6%
- Delta Air Lines 371 on the same route85.5%
- Delta Air Lines 434 on the same route62.2%
- Delta Air Lines 557 on the same route86.7%
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.