Flight number record

F9 3916

Frontier Airlines · Cleveland to Orlando

Route: CLE → MCO
Departs: 16:48
Flights: 331
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s F9 3916, check with Frontier Airlines.

F9 3916 sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 8 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 331 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so F9 3916 runs 8 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 84 extra late arrivals.

On time

69.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 331 completed flights

Avg delay

80 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

14.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 331 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.2% 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 3916 flies

F9 3916 flies CLE to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:48, used on 35 of 331 flights. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 16:4835 flights10.6%

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 16:48 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and F9 3916 runs 3 points worse at 69.2%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

F9 3916 next to CLE to MCO

Every carrier on CLE to MCO combined arrived on time 78.6% of the time across 2,069 flights, so F9 3916 is 9 points behind it. Frontier flew 1,190 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.1% on time. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 73.2%, which this flight trails by 4 points.

F9 3916 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
F9 3916thin sample	331	69.2%	80 min	0.00%	C+
All Frontier Airlines on CLE–MCO	1,190	74.1%	98 min	1.09%	C
All carriers on CLE–MCO	2,069	78.6%	91 min	0.72%	B+
Frontier Airlines, whole network	205,332	73.2%	84 min	1.85%	C

Across the year

F9 3916 quarter by quarter

F9 3916 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 77.5% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 57.7%, a swing of 20 points on roughly 83 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 202578 flights57.7%
Oct–Dec 202583 flights68.7%
Jan–Mar 202681 flights71.6%
Apr–Jun 202689 flights77.5%

Scale runs 50% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, F9 3916 did best on Wednesday at 85.0% on time and worst on Saturday at 55.8%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 29 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why F9 3916 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 8,201 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
53%
National Airspace System
26%
Carrier
19%
Extreme weather
2%

53% 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 8,201 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 26 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 8,201 delay minutes reported on F9 3916.

Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 14.2% 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 895 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 331 flights under F9 3916 in the data flew CLE to MCO. 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. 331 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 3916

For a booking, F9 3916 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 14.2% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.

Where to go next

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.

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