Carrier route record

F9JFK→DFW

Frontier Airlines · New York to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 109
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 6%
Carriers: 3

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

Frontier on JFK to DFW 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 109 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, American Airlines, flew 1,471 at 77.2% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, Frontier's JFK to DFW record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 60 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 108 completed flights

Avg delay

84 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.92%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

75.9%

Every carrier on JFK to DFW, 1,953 flights

These figures cover 109 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 JFK to DFW

Frontier flew 109 of the 1,953 flights on JFK to DFW, about 6% of it. Its 83.3% on time is 7 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 75.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 83.3% to Delta at 68.1%.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. American Airlines arrives on time 77.2% of the time; Delta Air Lines manages 68.1%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 373 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on JFK to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Frontier Airlines (this page)thin sample	109	83.3%	84 min	0.92%	B+
American Airlines	1,471	77.2%	89 min	2.72%	B
Delta Air Lines	373	68.1%	96 min	6.43%	C−

Delta Air Lines cancels 6.4% 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 109 flights.

There are not enough flights in each departure window to split Frontier's JFK to DFW record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 83.3% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

Frontier on JFK to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 202529 flights—
Oct–Dec 202575 flights81.1%
Jan–Mar 20265 flights—

Scale runs 75% 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 83.3% on time across 109 flights.

Split by quarter, Frontier on JFK to DFW logged 29 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 75 flights in Oct–Dec 2025 and 5 flights in Jan–Mar 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 83.3% annual figure is the one to use.

Arrival by arrival

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

Frontier on JFK to DFW often beats the schedule: 44 of 108 completed flights, 41%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 11 of the 18 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 4 reached an hour or more.

15+ min early44 flights40.7%
Within 15 min46 flights42.6%
15–29 min late11 flights10.2%
30–59 min late3 flights2.8%
1–2 hours late1 flights0.9%
2+ hours late3 flights2.8%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 108 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

Only 12 of 108 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 JFK to DFW

The latest arrival of the period was on 30 October 2025, 12 hours 27 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. Three of the five worst days fell in November 2025.

The latest arrivals of Frontier on JFK to DFW in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
30 October 2025	12 hours 27 minutes	Extreme weather
20 November 2025	2 hours 59 minutes	National Airspace System
25 October 2025	2 hours 18 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
24 November 2025	1 hour 27 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
9 November 2025	45 minutes	National Airspace System

Delay causes

Why Frontier runs late on this route

Extreme weather accounts for 45% of the 1,508 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Extreme weather
45%
National Airspace System
33%
Late-arriving aircraft
11%
Carrier
10%

Extreme weather accounts for 45% 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 7.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 1,508 reported delay minutes.

33% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 500 minutes out of 1,508, against a national NAS share of 21%.

Cancellations sit at 0.92% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.7% 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 1,391 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 93.5% on time across 109 flights, 10 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 10 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 109 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 JFK to DFW

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 109 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 83.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 108 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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