Carrier route record

F9TPA→LAS

Frontier Airlines · Tampa to Las Vegas

Flights: 117
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 TPA to LAS lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 117 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Frontier on TPA to LAS from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

79.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 115 completed flights

Avg delay

65 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.71%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

80.3%

Every carrier on TPA to LAS, 1,034 flights

These figures cover 117 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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.

Carrier by carrier

Frontier against every carrier on TPA to LAS

Frontier flew 117 of the 1,034 flights on TPA to LAS, about 11% of it. Its 79.1% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 80.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Spirit at 80.8% to Frontier at 79.1%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on TPA to LAS
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Spirit Airlinesthin sample	230	80.8%	85 min	0.43%	B+
Southwest Airlines	687	80.3%	48 min	0.44%	B+
Frontier Airlines (this page)thin sample	117	79.1%	65 min	1.71%	B

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 117 flights.

5am–8am51 flights74.0%
8am–11am15 flights—
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm2 flights—
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am49 flights79.2%

Scale runs 65% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 8pm–5am window is the strongest at 79.2% on time. The full set of windows spans 5 points.

Across the year

Frontier on TPA to LAS through the year

Jul–Sep 202535 flights67.6%
Apr–Jun 202682 flights84.0%

Scale runs 60% 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 79.1% on time across 117 flights.

Split by quarter, Frontier on TPA to LAS logged 35 flights in Jul–Sep 2025 and 82 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 79.1% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why Frontier runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 1,569 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
55%
National Airspace System
31%
Carrier
14%

55% 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 1,569 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 55 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 1,569 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations sit at 1.71% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

6.1% 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 62.6% on time across 118 flights, 16 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 16 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 117 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 LAS

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 117 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 79.1% 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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