Flight profile · Frontier Airlines
F93216
Los Angeles (LAX) to Atlanta (ATL) · scheduled 10:35 PM – 7:20 AM
How F93216 performs
610 operations, August 2024 – July 2026.
F93216 arrived on time 45.9% of the time, against 78.7% for all LAX → ATL flights — this specific departure is 32.8 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Frontier Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 4.4 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 610 operations, August 2024 – July 2026 · If F93216 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 F93216 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight runs unusually far behind the LAX → ATL route as a whole — worse than 100% of 11,788 comparable flight numbers.
45.9% on time for this specific departure, against 78.7% for every LAX → ATL flight.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · August 2024 – July 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.
Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F93216 | 45.9% | 2.79% | 18 min | 19.7% | 610 |
| Frontier Airlines on LAX → ATL | 50.3% | 2.65% | 14 min | 18.0% | 907 |
| All LAX → ATL flights | 78.7% | 0.84% | -5 min | 6.7% | 16,272 |
F93216 has cancelled 2.79% of its scheduled departures (17 of 610), against 0.84% for all LAX → ATL flights — this specific departure cancels 1.9 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 F93216 specifically, not about the route it flies.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · August 2024 – July 2026
Why F93216 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, fueling — 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 F93216 on LAX → ATL. A single late flight can carry more than one cause, and only delays of fifteen minutes or more are attributed at all.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering August 2024 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves LAX late, does that still matter by the time it reaches ATL?
F93216 pushes back an average of 44.8 minutes late and reaches the gate at ATL an average of 36.6 minutes late. The 8.2 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. It spends 22.1 minutes on the taxiways at LAX, 4.0 minutes longer than a typical LAX departure in the same hour.
On arrival at ATL, F93216 spends 16.9 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 7.3 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 26,417 departures from LAX scheduled in the clock hour F93216 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 F93216’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · August 2024 – July 2026
The hour it leaves LAX
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. F93216 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 26,417 departures from LAX are scheduled in the 10 PM–11 PM hour over the period, against 595,153 across the whole day.
F93216 is scheduled out of LAX at 10:35 PM, in the 10 PM–11 PM bank. Departures from LAX in that hour arrive on time 80.2% of the time against 81.4% across the airport’s whole day, so the hour F93216 leaves in is an ordinary one for LAX and explains nothing about its record either way.
The two airport figures cover every departure from LAX 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 · August 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.
101 min late
against a median of 18 min late
F93216 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 18 min late, but the worst tenth are 83 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 610 operations. Cancelled and diverted flights have no arrival time and are counted separately rather than as very late arrivals.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering August 2024 – July 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey — and not the same odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL390 | Delta Air Lines | 90.5% | 8 min early | 947 |
| DL471 | Delta Air Lines | 84.5% | 10 min early | 700 |
| DL782 | Delta Air Lines | 81.3% | 4 min early | 687 |
| DL327 | Delta Air Lines | 81.3% | 7 min early | 662 |
| DL515 | Delta Air Lines | 80.4% | 4 min early | 1,022 |
| DL528 | Delta Air Lines | 80.3% | 5 min early | 721 |
| DL783 | Delta Air Lines | 80.2% | 5 min early | 653 |
| DL715 | Delta Air Lines | 80.2% | 5 min early | 911 |
| F93216 this flight | Frontier Airlines | 45.9% | 18 min late | 610 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. F93216 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 610 records of F93216 operating LAX → 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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