Flight profile · Frontier Airlines
F93043
Orlando (MCO) to Chicago (ORD) · scheduled 7:00 AM – 8:56 AM
How F93043 performs
606 operations, November 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on MCO → ORD, F93043 averaged about 4 operations a week (606 in 1,020 days, cancelled ones included).
F93043 arrived on time 73.8% of the time, level with the 73.5% for all MCO → ORD flights: on arrival punctuality it is a typical departure on this route, neither better nor worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 606 operations, November 2023 – August 2026 · If F93043 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where F93043 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F93043 | 73.8% | 1.65% | -7 min | 11.1% | 606 |
| Frontier Airlines on MCO → ORD | 69.3% | 1.78% | -4 min | 13.7% | 1,181 |
| All MCO → ORD flights | 73.5% | 1.57% | -4 min | 10.7% | 17,559 |
F93043 cancelled 10 of 606 operations (1.65%), close to the 1.57% for MCO → ORD.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026
Why F93043 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 F93043 on MCO → ORD. 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 F93043 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, F93043 pushed back an average of 41 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 6 minutes late.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into MCO: 501 of 598 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| F93043 | 28% | 51% | 12% |
| Network, same turn | 23% | 40% | 9% |
A long gap on the ground gives a late aircraft room to catch up, though this flight has passed a late inbound on more often than the network does.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 90 minutes to 3 hours. How often F93043’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often F93043 left 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s.
Which Flight Numbers Pay for a Late Aircraft ranks the flight numbers that pass a late aircraft on.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves MCO late, does that still matter by the time it reaches ORD?
F93043 pushes back an average of 17.1 minutes late and reaches the gate at ORD an average of 9.5 minutes late. The 7.6 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. Its 19.2 minutes on the taxiways at MCO is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at ORD, F93043 spends 20.8 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 2.9 minutes longer than a typical ORD arrival (18.0 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 40,308 MCO departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 985,848 arrivals at ORD. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves MCO
F93043 has one departure time, 7:00 AM, so this is what that hour at MCO is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 40,308 departures from MCO are scheduled in the 7 AM–8 AM hour over the period, against 510,306 across the whole day.
F93043 is scheduled out of MCO at 7:00 AM, in the 7 AM–8 AM bank. Departures from MCO in that hour arrive on time 90.1% of the time against 74.6% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 15.4 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from MCO, 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.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
67 min late
against a median of 7 min early
F93043 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 7 min early, but the worst tenth are 74 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 606 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA2475 | United Airlines | 84.3% | 7 min early | 1,026 |
| F93043 this flight | Frontier Airlines | 73.8% | 7 min early | 606 |
| UA1828 | United Airlines | 51.2% | 13 min late | 948 |
Among all 3 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, F93043 has the 2nd highest on-time rate, 10.5 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 606 records of F93043 operating MCO → ORD, 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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