Carrier route record
F9TPA→CLE
Frontier Airlines · Tampa to Cleveland
- Flights
- 912
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 87%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Frontier Airlines.
Frontier on TPA to CLE lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 912 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 TPA 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
77.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 897 completed flights
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.43%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.0%
Every carrier on TPA to CLE, 1,048 flights
These figures cover 912 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.6% 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 TPA to CLE
Frontier flew 912 of the 1,048 flights on TPA to CLE, most of the route. Its 77.3% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 78.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 84.0% to Southwest at 60.0%. Two 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlinesthin sample | 131 | 84.0% | 80 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Frontier Airlines (this page) | 912 | 77.3% | 82 min | 1.43% | B |
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 5 | 60.0% | 52 min | 0.00% | D+ |
Flight by flight
Frontier flight numbers on TPA to CLE
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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 20 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am54 flights86.8%
- 8am–11am245 flights84.2%
- 11am–2pm102 flights88.1%
- 2pm–5pm81 flights73.8%
- 5pm–8pm190 flights72.2%
- 8pm–5am240 flights68.6%
Scale runs 60% to 95%.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 88.1% on time, ahead of 8pm–5am at 68.6%. 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 245 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Frontier on TPA to CLE through the year
July is the worst month at 64.4% on time, 31 points below September, the best at 95.0%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. March was the busiest month here, with 106 flights.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 83.7% on time and Monday the weakest at 73.0%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Frontier on TPA to CLE runs when it is late
Frontier on TPA to CLE often beats the schedule: 324 of 897 completed flights, 36%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When Frontier on TPA to CLE is late it tends to be very late: 104 of its 204 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 34 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early324 flights36.1%
- Within 15 min369 flights41.1%
- 15–29 min late42 flights4.7%
- 30–59 min late58 flights6.5%
- 1–2 hours late70 flights7.8%
- 2+ hours late34 flights3.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 897 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
32 of 206 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. 30 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Frontier on TPA to CLE
The latest arrival of the period was on 29 July 2026, 14 hours 23 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 29 July 2026 | 14 hours 23 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 December 2025 | 13 hours 36 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 29 July 2026 | 5 hours 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 May 2026 | 5 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 November 2025 | 4 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Frontier runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 71% of the 17,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 71%Late-arriving aircraft
- 16%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
71% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 17,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 29 to one. The split is drawn from 16,790 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 1.43% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.22%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
11.6% 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 927 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 runs 77.9% on time across 910 flights, within half 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. 912 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 TPA to CLE
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 912 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 77.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 897 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- TPA to CLE, every carrier
- Frontier on CLE to TPA, the return leg
- United Airlines on TPA to CLE84.0%
- Frontier Airlines network-wide record
- Tampa International (TPA) delay statistics
- Cleveland Hopkins International (CLE) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- 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.