Carrier route record
F9CLT→TPA
Frontier Airlines · Charlotte to Tampa
- Flights
- 114
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 4%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Frontier Airlines.
Frontier on CLT to TPA 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 an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 114 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Frontier on CLT 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
73.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 110 completed flights
Avg delay
85 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.51%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
76.6%
Every carrier on CLT to TPA, 3,038 flights
These figures cover 114 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.8% 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 CLT to TPA
Frontier flew 114 of the 3,038 flights on CLT to TPA, about 4% of it. Its 73.6% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Spirit at 82.5% to Frontier at 73.6%. One 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 40 | 82.5% | 64 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| American Airlines | 2,884 | 76.6% | 63 min | 1.56% | B |
| Frontier Airlines (this page)thin sample | 114 | 73.6% | 85 min | 3.51% | C− |
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Departure window
When Frontier runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 114 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split Frontier's CLT to TPA record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 73.6% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
Frontier on CLT to TPA through the year
- Jul–Sep 202517 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202537 flights61.1%
- Jan–Mar 202639 flights78.4%
- Apr–Jun 202621 flights—
Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 73.6% on time across 114 flights.
Split by quarter, Frontier on CLT to TPA logged 17 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 37 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 39 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 21 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 73.6% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late Frontier on CLT to TPA runs when it is late
Frontier on CLT to TPA often beats the schedule: 51 of 110 completed flights, 46%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 29 late arrivals split 5 under half an hour, 11 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 13 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early51 flights46.4%
- Within 15 min30 flights27.3%
- 15–29 min late5 flights4.5%
- 30–59 min late11 flights10.0%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights5.5%
- 2+ hours late7 flights6.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 110 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
4 of 30 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. 3 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Frontier on CLT to TPA
The latest arrival of the period was on 16 March 2026, 5 hours 52 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 16 March 2026 | 5 hours 52 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 5 January 2026 | 3 hours 27 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 October 2025 | 3 hours 24 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 April 2026 | 3 hours 12 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 April 2026 | 2 hours 50 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Frontier runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 58% of the 2,457 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 58%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%National Airspace System
- 12%Carrier
- 7%Extreme weather
58% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,457 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 to one. The split is drawn from 2,457 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 3.51%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
11.8% 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 507 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 84.5% on time across 113 flights, 11 points above this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 11 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 114 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 CLT to TPA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.51% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8pm–5am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 110 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to TPA, every carrier
- Frontier on TPA to CLT, the return leg
- American Airlines on CLT to TPA76.6%
- Frontier Airlines network-wide record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Tampa International (TPA) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.