Flight number record
F9 3916
Frontier Airlines · Cleveland to Orlando
- Route
- CLE → MCO
- Departs
- 16:48
- Flights
- 320
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 320 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so F9 3916 runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 70 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 317 completed flights
Avg delay
90 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.62%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
15.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 320 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 320 flights.
- Departs 16:4835 flights10.9%
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 16:48 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and F9 3916 runs level with that at 70.3%. 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 3916 next to CLE to MCO
Every carrier on CLE to MCO combined arrived on time 79.4% of the time across 2,125 flights, so F9 3916 is 9 points behind it. Frontier flew 1,256 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.0% on time. Across its whole network Frontier Airlines managed 72.7%, which this flight trails by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F9 3916thin sample | 320 | 70.3% | 90 min | 0.62% | C+ |
| All Frontier Airlines on CLE–MCO | 1,256 | 76.0% | 105 min | 1.35% | B |
| All carriers on CLE–MCO | 2,125 | 79.4% | 97 min | 0.89% | B+ |
| Frontier Airlines, whole network | 213,022 | 72.7% | 84 min | 2.05% | C |
Across the year
F9 3916 quarter by quarter
F9 3916 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 80.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 44.1%, a swing of 36 points on roughly 64 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 202530 flights80.0%
- Oct–Dec 202583 flights68.7%
- Jan–Mar 202681 flights71.6%
- Apr–Jun 202689 flights77.5%
- Jul–Sep 202637 flights44.1%
Scale runs 35% to 85%.
By weekday, F9 3916 did best on Wednesday at 84.6% on time and worst on Sunday at 56.0%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 29 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late F9 3916 runs when it is late
F9 3916 often beats the schedule: 97 of 317 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When F9 3916 is late it tends to be very late: 49 of its 94 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 25 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early97 flights30.6%
- Within 15 min126 flights39.7%
- 15–29 min late23 flights7.3%
- 30–59 min late22 flights6.9%
- 1–2 hours late24 flights7.6%
- 2+ hours late25 flights7.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 317 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
14 of 94 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. 14 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for F9 3916
The latest arrival of the period was on 15 January 2026, 7 hours 45 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 15 January 2026 | 7 hours 45 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 March 2026 | 6 hours 33 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 June 2026 | 5 hours 23 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 October 2025 | 5 hours 15 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 3 July 2026 | 4 hours 26 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why F9 3916 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 8,477 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%National Airspace System
- 22%Carrier
- 3%Extreme weather
53% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 8,477 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 19 to one. The split is drawn from 8,477 delay minutes reported on F9 3916.
Cancellations are rare at 0.62%, below the national 1.89% 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
15.5% 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 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.
Every one of the 320 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. 320 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. 15.5% 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.
Related
Where to go next
- CLE to MCO, every carrier and departure
- MCO to CLE, the return direction
- United Airlines 2636 on the same route92.5%
- Frontier Airlines 2280 on the same route73.8%
- Frontier Airlines 2668 on the same route82.0%
- Cleveland Hopkins International (CLE) delay statistics
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
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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.