Flight number record
F9 3288
Frontier Airlines · Atlanta to New York
- Route
- ATL → LGA
- Departs
- 20:57
- Flights
- 363
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 36.9% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 40 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. Late arrivals average close to two hours. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 30 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so F9 3288 runs 40 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 404 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
36.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 331 completed flights
Avg delay
113 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
7.71%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
35.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 363 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 35.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When F9 3288 flies
F9 3288 flies ATL to LGA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:57, used on 54 of 363 flights, with 21:00 (53 flights) and 20:53 (49 flights) next.
- Departs 20:5754 flights14.9%
- Departs 21:0053 flights14.6%
- Departs 20:5349 flights13.5%
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 20:57 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and F9 3288 runs 33 points worse at 36.9%. 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 3288 next to ATL to LGA
Every carrier on ATL to LGA combined arrived on time 72.3% of the time across 8,502 flights, so F9 3288 is 35 points behind it. Frontier flew 950 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 46.2% on time. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 72.7%, which this flight trails by 36 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F9 3288thin sample | 363 | 36.9% | 113 min | 7.71% | F− |
| All Frontier Airlines on ATL–LGA | 950 | 46.2% | 107 min | 6.84% | F− |
| All carriers on ATL–LGA | 8,502 | 72.3% | 79 min | 4.34% | C− |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 213,022 | 72.7% | 84 min | 2.05% | C |
Across the year
F9 3288 quarter by quarter
F9 3288 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 43.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 17.6%, a swing of 25 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 202528 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights43.0%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights42.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights28.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights17.6%
Scale runs 10% to 50%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, F9 3288 did best on Saturday at 46.8% on time and worst on Monday at 25.5%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late F9 3288 runs when it is late
When F9 3288 is late it tends to be very late: 118 of its 209 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 53 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early40 flights12.1%
- Within 15 min82 flights24.8%
- 15–29 min late39 flights11.8%
- 30–59 min late52 flights15.7%
- 1–2 hours late65 flights19.6%
- 2+ hours late53 flights16.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 331 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 183 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 14 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 40 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at LGA.
The worst days
Worst days for F9 3288
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 July 2026, 11 hours 56 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across July, August, May and October, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 July 2026 | 11 hours 56 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 August 2026 | 11 hours 39 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 14 May 2026 | 10 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 October 2025 | 10 hours 17 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 August 2026 | 9 hours 30 minutes | National Airspace System |
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 24,000 reported delay minutes.
- 37%National Airspace System
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%Carrier
- 0%Extreme weather
37% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 24,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 37 to one. The split is drawn from 23,606 delay minutes reported on F9 3288.
Cancellations run at 7.71%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twelve 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
35.6% 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 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.
Every one of the 363 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. 363 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: 7.71% of its 363 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 371 on the same route84.7%
- Delta Air Lines 434 on the same route62.1%
- Delta Air Lines 460 on the same route76.3%
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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.