Carrier route record

F9EWR→DFW

Frontier Airlines · Newark to Dallas-Fort Worth

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 EWR to DFW 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 about 4.0 hours behind schedule. That rests on 118 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, American Airlines, flew 1,440 at 80.1% on time.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so Frontier on EWR to DFW runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 69 extra late arrivals.

On time

70.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 115 completed flights

Avg delay

243 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.69%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

78.6%

Every carrier on EWR to DFW, 3,631 flights

These figures cover 118 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.3% 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 EWR to DFW

Frontier flew 118 of the 3,631 flights on EWR to DFW, about 3% of it. Its 70.4% on time is 8 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 78.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number four of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 87.0% to Spirit at 66.2%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The two carriers here are closely matched: half a point separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.

On-time performance by carrier on EWR to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Republic Airwaysthin sample	25	87.0%	67 min	4.00%	A−
American Airlines	1,440	80.1%	104 min	4.10%	B−
United Airlines	1,805	79.5%	74 min	2.66%	B
Frontier Airlines (this page)thin sample	118	70.4%	243 min	1.69%	C
Spirit Airlinesthin sample	243	66.2%	79 min	4.94%	C−

American Airlines cancels 4.1% 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 EWR to DFW record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 70.4% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

Frontier on EWR to DFW through the year

Apr–Jun 202657 flights63.6%
Jul–Sep 202661 flights76.7%

Scale runs 55% to 80%.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 70.4% on time across 118 flights.

Split by quarter, Frontier on EWR to DFW 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 70.4% annual figure is the one to use.

Arrival by arrival

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

Frontier on EWR to DFW often beats the schedule: 35 of 115 completed flights, 30%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 34 late arrivals split 16 under half an hour, 5 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 13 an hour or more.

15+ min early35 flights30.4%
Within 15 min46 flights40.0%
15–29 min late16 flights13.9%
30–59 min late5 flights4.3%
1–2 hours late4 flights3.5%
2+ hours late9 flights7.8%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 115 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

5 of 28 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. In the other direction, 11 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at DFW.

The worst days

Worst days for Frontier on EWR to DFW

The latest arrival of the period was on 25 June 2026, 20 hours 37 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across June, July and August, with no single month standing out.

The latest arrivals of Frontier on EWR to DFW in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
25 June 2026	20 hours 37 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
28 July 2026	19 hours 51 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
7 August 2026	19 hours 33 minutes	Carrier
27 August 2026	18 hours 36 minutes	Carrier
21 July 2026	18 hours 7 minutes	Extreme weather

Delay causes

Why Frontier runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 49% of the 8,257 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
49%
Carrier
31%
Extreme weather
13%
National Airspace System
7%

Extreme weather accounts for 13% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 8,257 reported delay minutes.

49% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 8,257 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one.

Cancellations sit at 1.69% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.85%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

11.3% 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 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 84.3% on time across 118 flights, 14 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 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 EWR to DFW

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 70.4% 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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