Carrier route record

F9DFW→EWR

Frontier Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Newark

Flights: 118
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 3%
Carriers: 5

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Frontier Airlines.

Frontier on DFW to EWR earns a B+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 55 minutes. That rests on 118 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 1,805 at 78.3% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, Frontier's DFW to EWR record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 70 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 115 completed flights

Avg delay

54 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.85%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

72.9%

Every carrier on DFW to EWR, 3,633 flights

These figures cover 118 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 DFW to EWR

Frontier flew 118 of the 3,633 flights on DFW to EWR, about 3% of it. Its 84.3% on time is 11 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 72.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 84.3% to Spirit at 66.1%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. United Airlines arrives on time 78.3% of the time; American Airlines manages 66.2%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,440 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to EWR
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Frontier Airlines (this page)thin sample	118	84.3%	54 min	0.85%	B+
United Airlines	1,805	78.3%	88 min	2.83%	B
Republic Airwaysthin sample	25	78.3%	282 min	4.00%	B−
American Airlines	1,440	66.2%	78 min	4.03%	C−
Spirit Airlinesthin sample	245	66.1%	70 min	4.90%	C−

American Airlines cancels 4.0% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.

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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 118 flights.

There are not enough flights in each departure window to split Frontier's DFW to EWR record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 84.3% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

Frontier on DFW to EWR through the year

Apr–Jun 202657 flights80.4%
Jul–Sep 202661 flights88.1%

Scale runs 70% to 95%.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 84.3% on time across 118 flights.

Split by quarter, Frontier on DFW to EWR logged 57 flights in Apr–Jun 2026 and 61 flights in Jul–Sep 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 84.3% annual figure is the one to use.

Arrival by arrival

How late Frontier on DFW to EWR runs when it is late

Frontier on DFW to EWR often beats the schedule: 49 of 115 completed flights, 43%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 18 late arrivals split 7 under half an hour, 7 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 4 an hour or more.

15+ min early49 flights42.6%
Within 15 min48 flights41.7%
15–29 min late7 flights6.1%
30–59 min late7 flights6.1%
1–2 hours late2 flights1.7%
2+ hours late2 flights1.7%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 115 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

Only 16 of 115 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.

The worst days

Worst days for Frontier on DFW to EWR

The latest arrival of the period was on 13 May 2026, 4 hours 32 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of Frontier on DFW to EWR in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
13 May 2026	4 hours 32 minutes	Carrier
7 August 2026	2 hours 37 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
22 June 2026	1 hour 16 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
20 May 2026	1 hour 9 minutes	Carrier
17 June 2026	39 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why Frontier runs late on this route

Carrier accounts for 42% of the 973 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
42%
Late-arriving aircraft
34%
National Airspace System
22%
Extreme weather
1%

34% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 973 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 28 to one. The split is drawn from 973 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 412 of the 973 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.85%, 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.5% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

The 1,372 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 70.4% on time across 118 flights, 14 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 14 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 118 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 DFW to EWR

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 118 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 84.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 115 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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