Flight number record
F9 3294
Frontier Airlines · Denver to Atlanta
- Route
- DEN → ATL
- Departs
- 06:30
- Flights
- 290
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 3294, check with Frontier Airlines.
F9 3294 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 290 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, F9 3294's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 102 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 289 completed flights
Avg delay
57 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 290 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Schedule
When F9 3294 flies
F9 3294 flies DEN to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:30, used on 113 of 290 flights, with 00:59 (104 flights) next.
- Departs 06:30113 flights39.0%
- Departs 00:59104 flights35.9%
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 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 3294 runs level with that at 87.5%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
F9 3294 next to DEN to ATL
Every carrier on DEN to ATL combined arrived on time 78.6% of the time across 5,603 flights, so F9 3294 is 9 points ahead of it. Frontier flew 801 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.5% on time. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 72.7%, which this flight beats by 15 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F9 3294thin sample | 290 | 87.5% | 57 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| All Frontier Airlines on DEN–ATL | 801 | 75.5% | 62 min | 0.87% | B+ |
| All carriers on DEN–ATL | 5,603 | 78.6% | 58 min | 0.93% | B+ |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 213,022 | 72.7% | 84 min | 2.05% | 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 73 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 202522 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights93.4%
- Jan–Mar 202664 flights78.1%
- Apr–Jun 202657 flights91.1%
- Jul–Sep 202656 flights85.7%
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, F9 3294 did best on Thursday at 93.0% on time and worst on Saturday at 80.0%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late F9 3294 runs when it is late
F9 3294 often beats the schedule: 128 of 289 completed flights, 44%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 36 late arrivals split 16 under half an hour, 13 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 7 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early128 flights44.3%
- Within 15 min125 flights43.3%
- 15–29 min late16 flights5.5%
- 30–59 min late13 flights4.5%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights1.7%
- 2+ hours late2 flights0.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 289 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 43 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 21 still arrived on time. 14 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for F9 3294
The latest arrival of the period was on 5 January 2026, 8 hours 3 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Four of the five worst days fell in January 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 5 January 2026 | 8 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 January 2026 | 2 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 January 2026 | 1 hour 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 31 January 2026 | 1 hour 50 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 February 2026 | 1 hour 47 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why F9 3294 runs late
Carrier accounts for 73% of the 2,050 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 73%Carrier
- 20%National Airspace System
- 6%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 73%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,497 of the 2,050 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,050 delay minutes reported on F9 3294.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are 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 2.4% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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.
Every one of the 290 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. 290 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: 87.5% on time and 0.00% 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 route93.9%
- Delta Air Lines 431 on the same route93.9%
- United Airlines 1305 on the same route70.9%
- Delta Air Lines 346 on the same route79.2%
- Frontier Airlines 3600 on the same route70.8%
- Delta Air Lines 840 on the same route80.7%
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.