Carrier route record
F9PHX→CLE
Frontier Airlines · Phoenix to Cleveland
- Flights
- 328
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 32%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Frontier Airlines.
Frontier on PHX to CLE lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 328 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Frontier on PHX to CLE from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
76.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 320 completed flights
Avg delay
81 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.83%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
73.3%
Every carrier on PHX to CLE, 1,012 flights
These figures cover 328 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.0% 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 PHX to CLE
Frontier flew 328 of the 1,012 flights on PHX to CLE, about 32% of it. Its 76.2% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 73.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 77.3% to Southwest at 67.1%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlinesthin sample | 318 | 77.3% | 86 min | 0.31% | B+ |
| Frontier Airlines (this page)thin sample | 328 | 76.2% | 81 min | 1.83% | B |
| Southwest Airlines | 366 | 67.1% | 44 min | 0.00% | C+ |
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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 28 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am11 flights—
- 8am–11am78 flights61.6%
- 11am–2pm143 flights89.4%
- 2pm–5pm26 flights—
- 5pm–8pm57 flights66.1%
- 8pm–5am13 flights—
Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 89.4% on time, ahead of 8am–11am at 61.6%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 143 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Frontier on PHX to CLE through the year
- Jul–Sep 202525 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202575 flights75.3%
- Jan–Mar 202675 flights52.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.0%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights90.3%
Scale runs 45% to 95%. 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 76.2% on time across 328 flights.
Frontier on PHX to CLE did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 90.3% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 52.8%, a swing of 38 points on roughly 82 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 90.5% on time and Monday the weakest at 63.3%, a spread of 27 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Frontier on PHX to CLE runs when it is late
Frontier on PHX to CLE often beats the schedule: 119 of 320 completed flights, 37%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 76 late arrivals split 26 under half an hour, 18 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 32 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early119 flights37.2%
- Within 15 min125 flights39.1%
- 15–29 min late26 flights8.1%
- 30–59 min late18 flights5.6%
- 1–2 hours late20 flights6.3%
- 2+ hours late12 flights3.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 320 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
11 of 64 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. In the other direction, 23 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 CLE.
The worst days
Worst days for Frontier on PHX to CLE
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 December 2025, 17 hours 44 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 30 December 2025 | 17 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 January 2026 | 5 hours 28 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 March 2026 | 4 hours 36 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 September 2025 | 4 hours 19 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 January 2026 | 3 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Frontier runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 53% of the 6,180 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%Carrier
- 32%Late-arriving aircraft
- 14%National Airspace System
- 0%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 53%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,290 of the 6,180 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,180 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 1.83% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.61%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
10.0% 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.
At 1,737 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 runs 77.5% on time across 327 flights, within about a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 328 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 PHX to CLE
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 328 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 76.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 320 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- PHX to CLE, every carrier
- Frontier on CLE to PHX, the return leg
- American Airlines on PHX to CLE77.3%
- Southwest Airlines on PHX to CLE67.1%
- Frontier Airlines network-wide record
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX) delay statistics
- Cleveland Hopkins International (CLE) delay statistics
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.