Carrier route record
F9TPA→CLT
Frontier Airlines · Tampa to Charlotte
- Flights
- 113
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 4%
- 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 CLT earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 113 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Frontier's TPA to CLT record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 72 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 110 completed flights
Avg delay
56 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.65%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
83.7%
Every carrier on TPA to CLT, 3,037 flights
These figures cover 113 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 TPA to CLT
Frontier flew 113 of the 3,037 flights on TPA to CLT, about 4% of it. Its 84.5% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 83.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 84.5% to American at 83.6%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier Airlines (this page)thin sample | 113 | 84.5% | 56 min | 2.65% | B |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 38 | 84.2% | 78 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| American Airlines | 2,886 | 83.6% | 80 min | 1.52% | B |
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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 113 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split Frontier's TPA to CLT record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 84.5% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
Frontier on TPA to CLT through the year
- Jul–Sep 202517 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202536 flights82.9%
- Jan–Mar 202639 flights83.8%
- Apr–Jun 202621 flights—
Scale runs 75% to 90%. 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 84.5% on time across 113 flights.
Split by quarter, Frontier on TPA to CLT logged 17 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 36 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 39 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 21 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 84.5% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late Frontier on TPA to CLT runs when it is late
Frontier on TPA to CLT often beats the schedule: 44 of 110 completed flights, 40%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 17 late arrivals split 7 under half an hour, 5 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 5 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early44 flights40.0%
- Within 15 min49 flights44.5%
- 15–29 min late7 flights6.4%
- 30–59 min late5 flights4.5%
- 1–2 hours late3 flights2.7%
- 2+ hours late2 flights1.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 110 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 11 of 110 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 TPA to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 3 October 2025, 3 hours 32 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 3 October 2025 | 3 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 April 2026 | 2 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 December 2025 | 1 hour 45 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 March 2026 | 1 hour 13 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 April 2026 | 1 hour 13 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why Frontier runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 57% of the 949 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 57%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%Carrier
- 16%National Airspace System
57% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 949 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 57 to one. The split is drawn from 949 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 85.7% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.65%, against 1.89% 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.5% 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 507 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 73.6% on time across 114 flights, 11 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 11 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 113 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 CLT
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 113 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 84.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 110 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- TPA to CLT, every carrier
- Frontier on CLT to TPA, the return leg
- American Airlines on TPA to CLT83.6%
- Frontier Airlines network-wide record
- Tampa International (TPA) delay statistics
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.