Flight number record
F9 3294
Frontier Airlines · Denver to Atlanta
- Route
- DEN → ATL
- Departs
- 00:59
- Flights
- 295
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 3294, check with Frontier Airlines.
F9 3294 earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 295 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, F9 3294's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 81 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 293 completed flights
Avg delay
62 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.34%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
4.4%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 295 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 12 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.
Schedule
When F9 3294 flies
F9 3294 flies DEN to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 00:59, used on 157 of 295 flights, with 06:30 (57 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 00:59157 flights53.2%
- Departs 06:3057 flights19.3%
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 00:59 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and F9 3294 runs 15 points better at 85.7%. 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 3294 next to DEN to ATL
Every carrier on DEN to ATL combined arrived on time 80.0% of the time across 5,596 flights, so F9 3294 is 6 points ahead of it. Frontier flew 744 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.9% on time. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 73.2%, which this flight beats by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F9 3294thin sample | 295 | 85.7% | 62 min | 0.34% | A+ |
| All Frontier Airlines on DEN–ATL | 744 | 78.9% | 61 min | 0.81% | B+ |
| All carriers on DEN–ATL | 5,596 | 80.0% | 62 min | 0.86% | B+ |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 205,332 | 73.2% | 84 min | 1.85% | C |
Across the year
F9 3294 quarter by quarter
F9 3294 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 93.4% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 78.1%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 74 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 202583 flights79.3%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights93.4%
- Jan–Mar 202664 flights78.1%
- Apr–Jun 202657 flights91.1%
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, F9 3294 did best on Thursday at 92.9% on time and worst on Saturday at 78.6%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why F9 3294 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 66% of the 2,587 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.
- 66%Carrier
- 20%Late-arriving aircraft
- 13%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 66%, 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 1,716 of the 2,587 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,587 delay minutes reported on F9 3294.
Cancellations are rare at 0.34%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.4% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The 1,199 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 295 flights under F9 3294 in the data flew DEN 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. 295 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 3294
For a booking, F9 3294 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 85.7% on time and 0.34% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- DEN to ATL, every carrier and departure
- ATL to DEN, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 341 on the same route92.8%
- Delta Air Lines 431 on the same route91.6%
- United Airlines 1305 on the same route69.4%
- Delta Air Lines 346 on the same route80.2%
- Frontier Airlines 3600 on the same route78.7%
- Delta Air Lines 995 on the same route86.8%
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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.