Flight profile · Frontier Airlines
F92297
Philadelphia (PHL) to Atlanta (ATL) · scheduled 8:30 AM – 11:00 AM
How F92297 performs
603 operations, November 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on PHL → ATL, F92297 averaged about 4 operations a week (603 in 1,020 days, cancelled ones included).
F92297 arrived on time 59.2% of the time, against 78.2% for all PHL → ATL flights, so this departure is 19.0 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Frontier Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 5.6 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 603 operations, November 2023 – August 2026 · If F92297 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
What stands out
How F92297 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight runs unusually far behind the PHL → ATL route as a whole, worse than 96% of 12,358 comparable flight numbers.
59.2% on time for this specific departure, against 78.2% for every PHL → ATL flight.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026 · The one thing about this specific departure that ranks most extreme against every other published flight number, out of everything FlyerIntel checks — shown only when something clears a real statistical bar, not for every flight.
Where F92297 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F92297 | 59.2% | 1.66% | 3 min | 15.5% | 603 |
| Frontier Airlines on PHL → ATL | 64.8% | 2.61% | 1 min | 13.8% | 2,950 |
| All PHL → ATL flights | 78.2% | 1.86% | -8 min | 8.3% | 18,455 |
F92297 cancelled 10 of 603 operations (1.66%), close to the 1.86% for PHL → ATL.
15.5% of F92297’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 8.3% across PHL → ATL, so the long delays are more common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026
Why F92297 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for F92297 on PHL → ATL. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies F92297 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, F92297 pushed back an average of 59 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 4 minutes late.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into PHL: 530 of 594 departures. Unknown, cancelled or diverted inbounds and gaps over 12 hours are left out.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| F92297 | 32% | 69% | 15% |
| Network, same turn | 17% | 69% | 9% |
67 scheduled minutes is enough to clean and board when the aircraft is on time, with little to spare when it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 60 to 89 minutes. How often F92297’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often F92297 left 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves PHL late, does that still matter by the time it reaches ATL?
F92297 pushes back an average of 25.9 minutes late and reaches the gate at ATL an average of 23.7 minutes late. The 2.2 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, so a late pushback is partly, not fully, made up before the gate. It spends 21.9 minutes on the taxiways at PHL, 1.3 minutes shorter than a typical PHL departure in the same hour.
On arrival at ATL, F92297 spends 22.3 min taxiing from touchdown to the gate — ground time a connecting passenger sits through before they can even leave the aircraft, on top of however late the flight itself ran. That is 12.7 minutes longer than a typical ATL arrival (9.6 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 33,260 PHL departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 1,039,387 arrivals at ATL. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves PHL
F92297 has one departure time, 8:30 AM, so this is what that hour at PHL is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 33,260 departures from PHL are scheduled in the 8 AM–9 AM hour over the period, against 315,217 across the whole day.
F92297 is scheduled out of PHL at 8:30 AM, in the 8 AM–9 AM bank. Departures from PHL in that hour arrive on time 84.2% of the time against 76.0% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 8.2 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from PHL, so they describe the slot, not this journey; the route comparison is above. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes F92297 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. F92297 also served this other city pair in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHL→FLL Philadelphia to Fort Lauderdale | July 1, 2023 – October 2, 2023 | 79 | — |
The figures above describe only PHL → ATL, the route F92297 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
91 min late
against a median of 3 min late
F92297 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 3 min late, but the worst tenth are 88 minutes worse than that. If the trip has something unmissable at the end of it, the median is the wrong number to plan against.
Percentiles over 603 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL1269 | Delta Air Lines | 91.2% | 13 min early | 723 |
| DL1180 | Delta Air Lines | 87.8% | 12 min early | 725 |
| DL1152 | Delta Air Lines | 84.9% | 7 min early | 779 |
| DL2270 | Delta Air Lines | 84.2% | 9 min early | 913 |
| DL2279 | Delta Air Lines | 81.1% | 11 min early | 623 |
| F91003 | Frontier Airlines | 68.6% | 2 min early | 631 |
| F92297 this flight | Frontier Airlines | 59.2% | 3 min late | 603 |
Among all 7 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, F92297 has the lowest on-time rate, 32.0 points behind the best. Every departure here has at least 600 operations; the other rows are the most punctual on the route, not all of them.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 603 records of F92297 operating PHL → ATL, published by the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule; cancelled and diverted flights are reported separately, not in the on-time rate.
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