Flight profile · Frontier Airlines
F93206
Denver (DEN) to Houston (IAH) · scheduled 7:00 AM – 10:37 AM
How F93206 performs
621 operations, May 2024 – July 2026.
F93206 arrived on time 80.4% of the time, against 76.8% for all DEN → IAH flights, so this departure is 3.6 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against Frontier Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 5.5 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 621 operations, May 2024 – July 2026 · If F93206 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where F93206 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F93206 | 80.4% | 0.97% | -10 min | 5.7% | 621 |
| Frontier Airlines on DEN → IAH | 74.9% | 1.06% | -7 min | 9.1% | 2,081 |
| All DEN → IAH flights | 76.8% | 0.83% | -4 min | 8.2% | 14,972 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · May 2024 – July 2026
Why F93206 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for F93206 on DEN → IAH. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering May 2024 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies F93206 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, F93206 pushed back an average of 8 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 1 minute late.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into DEN just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 501 of 616 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| F93206 | 25% | 26% | 11% |
| Network, same turn | 33% | 24% | 11% |
The schedule leaves a long gap on the ground, which gives a late aircraft room to catch up before this flight pushes back.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 3 to 6 hours. How often F93206’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often F93206 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 May 2024 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves DEN late, does that still matter by the time it reaches IAH?
F93206 pushes back an average of 3.6 minutes late and reaches the gate at IAH an average of 0.7 minutes early. The 4.3 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, which is why a late pushback on this flight does not reliably become a late arrival. Its 18.5 minutes on the taxiways at DEN is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at IAH, F93206 spends 18.2 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 7.5 minutes longer than a typical IAH arrival (10.7 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 IAH. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 46,622 departures from DEN scheduled in the clock hour F93206 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at IAH (359,471 flights), not just F93206’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · May 2024 – July 2026
The hour it leaves DEN
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. F93206 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 46,622 departures from DEN are scheduled in the 7 AM–8 AM hour over the period, against 963,099 across the whole day.
F93206 is scheduled out of DEN at 7:00 AM, in the 7 AM–8 AM bank. Departures from DEN in that hour arrive on time 87.5% of the time against 76.0% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 11.5 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from DEN 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 · May 2024 – July 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.
37 min late
against a median of 10 min early
Percentiles over 621 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering May 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA320 | United Airlines | 94.7% | 14 min early | 605 |
| UA1720 | United Airlines | 89.4% | 10 min early | 742 |
| F93206 this flight | Frontier Airlines | 80.4% | 10 min early | 621 |
| UA475 | United Airlines | 72.0% | 4 min early | 940 |
| UA489 | United Airlines | 71.1% | 1 min late | 965 |
| UA1829 | United Airlines | 71.1% | 1 min late | 651 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. F93206 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 621 records of F93206 operating DEN → IAH, 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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