Flight profile · Frontier Airlines
F93044
Chicago (ORD) to Orlando (MCO) · scheduled 5:13 PM – 9:25 PM
How F93044 performs
615 operations, November 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on ORD → MCO, F93044 averaged about 4 operations a week (615 in 1,019 days, cancelled ones included).
F93044 arrived on time 65.0% of the time, against 75.1% for all ORD → MCO flights, so this departure is 10.1 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Frontier Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 2.0 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 615 operations, November 2023 – August 2026 · If F93044 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 F93044 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight's worst arrivals run unusually far past its typical one, a bigger gap than 94% of 12,358 comparable flight numbers.
A typical arrival is 3 min early, but the worst tenth run 101 minutes worse than that.
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.
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F93044 | 65.0% | 3.09% | -3 min | 17.1% | 615 |
| Frontier Airlines on ORD → MCO | 67.0% | 2.72% | -6 min | 15.8% | 1,178 |
| All ORD → MCO flights | 75.1% | 1.47% | -6 min | 9.9% | 17,576 |
F93044 has cancelled 3.09% of its scheduled departures (19 of 615), against 1.47% for all ORD → MCO flights — this specific departure cancels 1.6 percentage points more often than the route as a whole. Different flight numbers on the same route can carry different aircraft, crews and schedules, so this is a fact about F93044 specifically, not about the route it flies.
17.1% of F93044’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 9.9% across ORD → MCO, 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 F93044 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 F93044 on ORD → MCO. 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 F93044 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying F93044 came in 15 or more minutes late on 31% of the departures where its previous flight is known. There are not enough departures in both groups to say how the flight left after a late one and after an on-time one.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into ORD: 289 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 |
|---|---|
| F93044 | 31% |
| Network, same turn | 17% |
65 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 F93044’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s. There are not enough departures in both groups to compare how it left.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves ORD late, does that still matter by the time it reaches MCO?
F93044 pushes back an average of 38.1 minutes late and reaches the gate at MCO an average of 29.1 minutes late. The 9.0 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 28.2 minutes on the taxiways at ORD, 2.3 minutes longer than a typical ORD departure in the same hour.
On arrival at MCO, F93044 spends 13.5 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 2.6 minutes longer than a typical MCO arrival (10.9 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 47,736 ORD departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 510,310 arrivals at MCO. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves ORD
F93044 has one departure time, 5:13 PM, so this is what that hour at ORD is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 47,736 departures from ORD are scheduled in the 5 PM–6 PM hour over the period, against 985,989 across the whole day.
F93044 is scheduled out of ORD at 5:13 PM, in the 5 PM–6 PM bank. Departures from ORD in that hour arrive on time 66.4% of the time against 74.2% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 7.8 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from ORD, 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.
98 min late
against a median of 3 min early
F93044 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 3 min early, but the worst tenth are 101 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 615 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA2323 | United Airlines | 86.1% | 10 min early | 727 |
| F93044 this flight | Frontier Airlines | 65.0% | 3 min early | 615 |
Among all 2 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, F93044 has the lowest on-time rate, 21.1 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 615 records of F93044 operating ORD → MCO, 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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