Carrier route record

F9LAS→TPA

Frontier Airlines · Las Vegas to Tampa

Flights: 118
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 11%
Carriers: 3

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

Frontier on LAS to TPA draws a D. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 118 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so Frontier on LAS to TPA runs 15 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 150 extra late arrivals.

On time

62.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 115 completed flights

Avg delay

64 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.54%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

68.6%

Every carrier on LAS to TPA, 1,036 flights

These figures cover 118 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

Frontier against every carrier on LAS to TPA

Frontier flew 118 of the 1,036 flights on LAS to TPA, about 11% of it. Its 62.6% on time is 6 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 68.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Spirit at 84.8% to Frontier at 62.6%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on LAS to TPA
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Spirit Airlinesthin sample	232	84.8%	84 min	0.86%	B+
Southwest Airlines	686	64.1%	49 min	0.15%	D+
Frontier Airlines (this page)thin sample	118	62.6%	64 min	2.54%	D

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 LAS to TPA record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 62.6% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

Frontier on LAS to TPA through the year

Jul–Sep 202535 flights72.7%
Apr–Jun 202683 flights58.5%

Scale runs 50% to 80%. 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 62.6% on time across 118 flights.

Split by quarter, Frontier on LAS to TPA logged 35 flights in Jul–Sep 2025 and 83 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 62.6% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why Frontier runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 61% of the 2,732 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Carrier
61%
Late-arriving aircraft
29%
National Airspace System
9%

The largest share of delay minutes, 61%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 1,675 of the 2,732 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,732 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 2.54%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 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

8.7% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 1,984 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 79.1% on time across 117 flights, 16 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 16 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 LAS to TPA

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 62.6% 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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