Carrier route record
F9CLE→TPA
Frontier Airlines · Cleveland to Tampa
- Flights
- 910
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 87%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Frontier Airlines.
Frontier on CLE to TPA lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 910 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Frontier on CLE to TPA from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
77.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 893 completed flights
Avg delay
78 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.65%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.9%
Every carrier on CLE to TPA, 1,046 flights
These figures cover 910 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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Carrier by carrier
Frontier against every carrier on CLE to TPA
Frontier flew 910 of the 1,046 flights on CLE to TPA, most of the route. Its 77.9% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 79.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 93.1% to Frontier at 77.9%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlinesthin sample | 131 | 93.1% | 62 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 5 | 80.0% | 38 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Frontier Airlines (this page) | 910 | 77.9% | 78 min | 1.65% | B |
Flight by flight
Frontier flight numbers on CLE to TPA
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Departure window
When Frontier runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 15 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am238 flights84.8%
- 8am–11am102 flights80.0%
- 11am–2pm63 flights79.0%
- 2pm–5pm219 flights79.4%
- 5pm–8pm246 flights69.8%
- 8pm–5am42 flights73.2%
Scale runs 60% to 90%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 84.8% of the time, against 69.8% for the evening window. That is 15 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 246 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Frontier on CLE to TPA through the year
January is the weak month at 64.3% on time, against 94.9% in September. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. March was the busiest month here, with 105 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 85.4% on time and Saturday the weakest at 70.4%, a spread of 15 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Frontier on CLE to TPA runs when it is late
Frontier on CLE to TPA often beats the schedule: 338 of 893 completed flights, 38%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 197 late arrivals split 57 under half an hour, 51 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 89 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early338 flights37.8%
- Within 15 min358 flights40.1%
- 15–29 min late57 flights6.4%
- 30–59 min late51 flights5.7%
- 1–2 hours late61 flights6.8%
- 2+ hours late28 flights3.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 893 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
24 of 177 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. 44 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Frontier on CLE to TPA
The latest arrival of the period was on 10 May 2026, 17 hours 14 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 10 May 2026 | 17 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 29 November 2025 | 7 hours 58 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 June 2026 | 7 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 1 April 2026 | 6 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 July 2026 | 6 hours 7 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Frontier runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 56% of the 15,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 56%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%Carrier
- 17%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
56% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 15,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 41 to one. The split is drawn from 15,329 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 84.8% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.65% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.22%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here 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 927 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.
The return leg runs 77.3% on time across 912 flights, within half a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 910 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 Frontier on CLE to TPA
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 910 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 77.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 893 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLE to TPA, every carrier
- Frontier on TPA to CLE, the return leg
- United Airlines on CLE to TPA93.1%
- Frontier Airlines network-wide record
- Cleveland Hopkins International (CLE) delay statistics
- Tampa International (TPA) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.