Carrier route record
F9LGA→ATL
Frontier Airlines · New York to Atlanta
- Flights
- 889
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 11%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Frontier Airlines.
Frontier on LGA to ATL carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 5.7% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.8% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, a little over half of flights arrive on time, worth a D− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 889 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Delta Air Lines, flew 4,933 at 79.9% on time.
Delta Air Lines is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 79.9% on time across 4,933 flights.
Key figures
On time
58.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 835 completed flights
Avg delay
106 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.74%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
76.6%
Every carrier on LGA to ATL, 8,343 flights
These figures cover 889 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 20.5% 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 LGA to ATL
Frontier flew 889 of the 8,343 flights on LGA to ATL, about 11% of it. Its 58.4% on time is 18 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Spirit at 80.0% to Frontier at 58.4%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Delta Air Lines arrives on time 79.9% of the time; Southwest Airlines manages 73.6%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 935 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 10 | 80.0% | 101 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines | 4,933 | 79.9% | 73 min | 2.98% | B |
| Republic Airways | 1,576 | 77.8% | 64 min | 4.70% | B− |
| Southwest Airlines | 935 | 73.6% | 78 min | 3.64% | C− |
| Frontier Airlines (this page) | 889 | 58.4% | 106 min | 5.74% | D− |
Republic Airways cancels 4.7% 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.
Flight by flight
Frontier flight numbers on LGA to ATL
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 23 points, against 6 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am365 flights62.7%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm180 flights66.3%
- 2pm–5pm7 flights—
- 5pm–8pm160 flights43.6%
- 8pm–5am177 flights53.4%
Scale runs 35% to 70%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 43.6% on time, against 66.3% 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 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 365 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Frontier on LGA to ATL through the year
Delays peak in March, when the on-time rate falls to 47.5%. August is the strongest month at 72.4%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 25 points. May was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 68.1% on time and Monday the weakest at 52.3%. 16 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why Frontier runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 57% of the 37,000 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.
- 57%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%Carrier
- 16%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
57% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 37,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 57 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 36,694 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 5.74%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in fifteen 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 20.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 762 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 51.8% on time across 888 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 889 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 LGA to ATL
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.74% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 835 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LGA to ATL, every carrier
- Frontier on ATL to LGA, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on LGA to ATL79.9%
- Republic Airways on LGA to ATL77.8%
- Southwest Airlines on LGA to ATL73.6%
- Frontier Airlines network-wide record
- LaGuardia (LGA) delay statistics
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.