Flight profile · Frontier Airlines
F93097
Atlanta (ATL) to Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) · scheduled 9:15 PM – 10:53 PM
How F93097 performs
602 operations, January 2024 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on ATL → DFW, F93097 averaged about 4 operations a week (602 in 961 days, cancelled ones included).
F93097 arrived on time 49.6% of the time, against 72.8% for all ATL → DFW flights, so this departure is 23.2 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Frontier Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 8.3 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 602 operations, January 2024 – August 2026 · If F93097 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 F93097 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight runs unusually far behind the ATL → DFW route as a whole, worse than 98% of 12,358 comparable flight numbers.
49.6% on time for this specific departure, against 72.8% for every ATL → DFW flight.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · January 2024 – 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 F93097 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F93097 | 49.6% | 3.32% | 15 min | 24.4% | 602 |
| Frontier Airlines on ATL → DFW | 57.9% | 2.44% | 6 min | 18.8% | 2,088 |
| All ATL → DFW flights | 72.8% | 2.06% | -2 min | 10.4% | 20,869 |
F93097 has cancelled 3.32% of its scheduled departures (20 of 602), against 2.06% for all ATL → DFW flights — this specific departure cancels 1.3 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 F93097 specifically, not about the route it flies.
24.4% of F93097’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 10.4% across ATL → DFW, so the long delays are more common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · January 2024 – August 2026
Why F93097 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 F93097 on ATL → DFW. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering January 2024 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies F93097 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, F93097 pushed back an average of 70 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 15 minutes late.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into ATL: 520 of 586 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| F93097 | 37% | 84% | 28% |
| Network, same turn | 17% | 69% | 9% |
70 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 F93097’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often F93097 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 January 2024 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves ATL late, does that still matter by the time it reaches DFW?
F93097 pushes back an average of 41.7 minutes late and reaches the gate at DFW an average of 36.0 minutes late. The 5.7 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 20.6 minutes on the taxiways at ATL, 3.7 minutes longer than a typical ATL departure in the same hour.
On arrival at DFW, F93097 spends 22.4 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 8.8 minutes longer than a typical DFW arrival (13.6 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 64,630 ATL departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 988,998 arrivals at DFW. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · January 2024 – August 2026
The hour it leaves ATL
F93097 has one departure time, 9:15 PM, so this is what that hour at ATL is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 64,630 departures from ATL are scheduled in the 9 PM–10 PM hour over the period, against 1,039,468 across the whole day.
F93097 is scheduled out of ATL at 9:15 PM, in the 9 PM–10 PM bank. Departures from ATL in that hour arrive on time 73.6% of the time against 78.6% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 5.0 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from ATL, 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 · January 2024 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes F93097 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. F93097 also served this other city pair in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| DFW→LAS Dallas–Fort Worth to Las Vegas | April 25, 2024 – May 9, 2024 | 3 | — |
The figures above describe only ATL → DFW, the route F93097 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
130 min late
against a median of 15 min late
F93097 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 15 min late, but the worst tenth are 115 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 602 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering January 2024 – August 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2770 | American Airlines | 89.0% | 10 min early | 1,077 |
| DL961 | Delta Air Lines | 83.5% | 5 min early | 1,013 |
| DL414 | Delta Air Lines | 80.3% | 4 min early | 791 |
| AA1567 | American Airlines | 80.2% | 3 min early | 1,150 |
| DL839 | Delta Air Lines | 76.7% | 1 min late | 1,064 |
| DL921 | Delta Air Lines | 75.5% | 2 min early | 1,156 |
| DL818 | Delta Air Lines | 75.1% | 4 min early | 1,131 |
| AA1008 | American Airlines | 70.7% | 2 min early | 631 |
| F93097 this flight | Frontier Airlines | 49.6% | 15 min late | 602 |
Among the 9 departures listed, F93097 has the lowest on-time rate, 39.4 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 602 records of F93097 operating ATL → DFW, 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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