Flight profile · Frontier Airlines
F93053
Tampa (TPA) to Atlanta (ATL) · scheduled 4:46 PM – 6:37 PM
How F93053 performs
648 operations, January 2024 – July 2026.
F93053 arrived on time 67.8% of the time, against 78.4% for all TPA → ATL flights, so this departure is 10.6 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Frontier Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 1.8 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 648 operations, January 2024 – July 2026 · If F93053 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where F93053 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F93053 | 67.8% | 2.16% | -2 min | 13.2% | 648 |
| Frontier Airlines on TPA → ATL | 69.6% | 2.38% | -3 min | 11.2% | 2,308 |
| All TPA → ATL flights | 78.4% | 1.67% | -6 min | 8.2% | 19,934 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · January 2024 – July 2026
Why F93053 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for F93053 on TPA → ATL. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering January 2024 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies F93053 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, F93053 pushed back an average of 55 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 1 minute early.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into TPA just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 577 of 638 departures in all. A departure is left out when that flight is unknown, was cancelled or diverted, or the aircraft had sat for more than 12 hours. A flight the airline cancelled never left and is not in the count, and one flown by a substitute aircraft is matched to the aircraft that flew it, not to the one first planned.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| F93053 | 22% | 71% | 8% |
| Network, same turn | 17% | 68% | 9% |
The schedule leaves a normal turn: enough time to clean and board if the aircraft is on time, little to spare if it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 60 to 89 minutes. How often F93053’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often F93053 left 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s.
More: Which Flight Numbers Pay for a Late Aircraft lists the flight numbers that pass a late aircraft on.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering January 2024 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves TPA late, does that still matter by the time it reaches ATL?
F93053 pushes back an average of 12.4 minutes late and arrives a further 2.0 minutes behind that. This departure loses ground between the two gates rather than recovering it, so a late pushback here tends to get worse on the way, not better. It spends 20.6 minutes on the taxiways at TPA, 3.2 minutes longer than a typical TPA departure in the same hour.
On arrival at ATL, F93053 spends 24.5 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 15.0 minutes longer than a typical ATL arrival (9.6 min).
Departure delay is averaged over every pushback and arrival delay over every completed arrival, so the two counts differ by the flights that never reached ATL. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 14,178 departures from TPA scheduled in the clock hour F93053 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at ATL (1,012,161 flights), not just F93053’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · January 2024 – July 2026
The hour it leaves TPA
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. F93053 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 14,178 departures from TPA are scheduled in the 4 PM–5 PM hour over the period, against 242,628 across the whole day.
F93053 is scheduled out of TPA at 4:46 PM, in the 4 PM–5 PM bank. Departures from TPA in that hour arrive on time 69.1% of the time against 78.2% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 9.1 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from TPA to every destination, so they describe the slot rather than this journey — the like-for-like comparison against the route is above. Hours are scheduled local, and a number whose schedule moved between banks inside the period has no single hour and is not described here at all. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · January 2024 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes F93053 has flown
A flight number is a slot in a schedule, and carriers reassign it. These are the other city pairs this number served in the analysis period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVG→TPA Cincinnati / Covington to Tampa | May 17–20, 2024 | 2 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route F93053 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
79 min late
against a median of 2 min early
F93053 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 2 min early, but the worst tenth are 81 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 648 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering January 2024 – July 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL1486 | Delta Air Lines | 88.2% | 6 min early | 631 |
| DL2605 | Delta Air Lines | 88.2% | 8 min early | 731 |
| DL1227 | Delta Air Lines | 83.1% | 7 min early | 1,124 |
| F92911 | Frontier Airlines | 80.4% | 9 min early | 657 |
| DL1099 | Delta Air Lines | 79.6% | 7 min early | 1,097 |
| DL1587 | Delta Air Lines | 77.0% | 4 min early | 1,031 |
| DL1525 | Delta Air Lines | 75.8% | 7 min early | 954 |
| DL1720 | Delta Air Lines | 75.2% | 6 min early | 728 |
| F93053 this flight | Frontier Airlines | 67.8% | 2 min early | 648 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. F93053 is placed in the same ordering rather than left out of it; the rows around it are the most punctual departures on the route, not all of them, so this is a comparison and not a rank. Schedules change; confirm the departure still operates before booking around this.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 648 records of F93053 operating TPA → 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 excluded from the on-time rate and reported separately. Flight numbers are resolved as carrier plus number plus route, because the same number serves different routes over time.
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