Flight number record
F9 3469
Frontier Airlines · Orlando to Houston
- Route
- MCO → IAH
- Departs
- 16:36
- Flights
- 285
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 3469, check with Frontier Airlines.
F9 3469 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 285 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
73.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 281 completed flights
Avg delay
78 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.40%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
10.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 285 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When F9 3469 flies
F9 3469 flies MCO to IAH without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:36, used on 70 of 285 flights.
- Departs 16:3670 flights24.6%
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 16:36 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and F9 3469 runs level with that at 73.7%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
F9 3469 next to MCO to IAH
Every carrier on MCO to IAH combined arrived on time 83.5% of the time across 3,569 flights, so F9 3469 is 10 points behind it. Frontier flew 580 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.0% on time. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 72.7%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F9 3469thin sample | 285 | 73.7% | 78 min | 1.40% | C |
| All Frontier Airlines on MCO–IAH | 580 | 81.0% | 74 min | 0.86% | B+ |
| All carriers on MCO–IAH | 3,569 | 83.5% | 76 min | 1.01% | B |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 213,022 | 72.7% | 84 min | 2.05% | C |
Across the year
F9 3469 quarter by quarter
F9 3469 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 81.2% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 60.0%, a swing of 21 points on roughly 71 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 202529 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202554 flights69.8%
- Jan–Mar 202665 flights81.2%
- Apr–Jun 202675 flights72.0%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights60.0%
Scale runs 50% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, F9 3469 did best on Tuesday at 83.8% on time and worst on Sunday at 64.3%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late F9 3469 runs when it is late
F9 3469 often beats the schedule: 138 of 281 completed flights, 49%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 74 late arrivals split 15 under half an hour, 31 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 28 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early138 flights49.1%
- Within 15 min69 flights24.6%
- 15–29 min late15 flights5.3%
- 30–59 min late31 flights11.0%
- 1–2 hours late17 flights6.0%
- 2+ hours late11 flights3.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 281 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 88 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 30 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 16 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 IAH.
The worst days
Worst days for F9 3469
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 April 2026, 11 hours 6 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 6 April 2026 | 11 hours 6 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 August 2026 | 3 hours 51 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 June 2026 | 3 hours 49 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 7 March 2026 | 3 hours 47 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 24 November 2025 | 3 hours 45 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why F9 3469 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 5,743 reported delay minutes.
- 42%Late-arriving aircraft
- 36%National Airspace System
- 11%Extreme weather
- 11%Carrier
Extreme weather accounts for 11% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 1.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,743 delay minutes reported on F9 3469.
Cancellations sit at 1.40% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
10.0% 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 854 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 285 flights under F9 3469 in the data flew MCO to IAH. 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. 285 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 3469
For a booking, F9 3469 is one of the weaker ways to fly MCO to IAH: 10 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.
Related
Where to go next
- MCO to IAH, every carrier and departure
- IAH to MCO, the return direction
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- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- George Bush Intercontinental (IAH) delay statistics
- Frontier Airlines on-time record
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- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.