Carrier route record
F9CVG→TPA
Frontier Airlines · Cincinnati to Tampa
- Flights
- 372
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 51%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Frontier Airlines.
Frontier on CVG to TPA lands a B+, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 372 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Frontier's CVG to TPA record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 57 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 370 completed flights
Avg delay
83 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.27%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
81.5%
Every carrier on CVG to TPA, 731 flights
These figures cover 372 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 13 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
Frontier against every carrier on CVG to TPA
Frontier flew 372 of the 731 flights on CVG to TPA, most of the route. Its 83.0% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 81.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 83.0% to Delta at 79.9%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier Airlines (this page) | 372 | 83.0% | 83 min | 0.27% | B+ |
| Delta Air Linesthin sample | 359 | 79.9% | 72 min | 1.11% | B |
Flight by flight
Frontier flight numbers on CVG 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 25 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am105 flights86.7%
- 8am–11am50 flights84.0%
- 11am–2pm120 flights89.1%
- 2pm–5pm21 flights—
- 5pm–8pm49 flights64.6%
- 8pm–5am27 flights—
Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 64.6% on time, against 89.1% for the 11am–2pm slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 120 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Frontier on CVG to TPA through the year
- Jul–Sep 202521 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202579 flights78.5%
- Jan–Mar 202699 flights76.5%
- Apr–Jun 2026111 flights83.8%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights93.4%
Scale runs 70% to 100%. 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 83.0% on time across 372 flights.
Frontier on CVG to TPA did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 93.4% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 76.5%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 93 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.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 88.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 78.1%, a spread of 10 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Frontier on CVG to TPA runs when it is late
Frontier on CVG to TPA often beats the schedule: 159 of 370 completed flights, 43%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 63 late arrivals split 21 under half an hour, 17 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 25 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early159 flights43.0%
- Within 15 min148 flights40.0%
- 15–29 min late21 flights5.7%
- 30–59 min late17 flights4.6%
- 1–2 hours late14 flights3.8%
- 2+ hours late11 flights3.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 370 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
10 of 59 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. 14 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Frontier on CVG to TPA
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 April 2026, 7 hours 10 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 28 April 2026 | 7 hours 10 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 January 2026 | 7 hours 3 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 December 2025 | 4 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 January 2026 | 4 hours 47 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 14 April 2026 | 4 hours 38 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Frontier runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 5,218 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%Carrier
- 17%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
53% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,218 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 to one. The split is drawn from 5,218 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.27%, 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 stage length
What a delay here costs
6.8% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 773 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 78.5% on time across 374 flights, 5 points below 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 5 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 372 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 CVG to TPA
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 372 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 83.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 370 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CVG to TPA, every carrier
- Frontier on TPA to CVG, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on CVG to TPA79.9%
- Frontier Airlines network-wide record
- Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International (CVG) 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.