Flight profile · Frontier Airlines
F94601
Newark (EWR) to Atlanta (ATL) · scheduled 5:59 AM – 8:30 AM
How F94601 performs
632 operations, November 2024 – July 2026.
F94601 arrived on time 64.4% of the time, against 75.6% for all EWR → ATL flights, so this departure is 11.2 percentage points worse than the route as a whole.
F94601’s scheduled departure has moved during the period FlyerIntel has on file: it typically left around 10:00 PM earlier on, and around 6:00 AM more recently — a 480-minute shift, not the few minutes of day-to-day rounding every published schedule carries. Confirm the current departure time before booking around an older listing.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 632 operations, November 2024 – July 2026 · If F94601 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where F94601 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F94601 | 64.4% | 3.80% | -1 min | 15.0% | 632 |
| Frontier Airlines on EWR → ATL | 65.3% | 4.10% | -2 min | 15.5% | 1,049 |
| All EWR → ATL flights | 75.6% | 2.64% | -6 min | 10.4% | 18,661 |
F94601 has cancelled 3.80% of its scheduled departures (24 of 632), against 2.64% for all EWR → ATL flights — this specific departure cancels 1.2 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 F94601 specifically, not about the route it flies.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2024 – July 2026
Why F94601 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 F94601 on EWR → ATL. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2024 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies F94601 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, F94601 pushed back an average of 39 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 EWR just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 591 of 609 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| F94601 | 51% | 40% | 9% |
| 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 F94601’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often F94601 left 15 or more minutes late is higher than 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 November 2024 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves EWR late, does that still matter by the time it reaches ATL?
F94601 pushes back an average of 25.3 minutes late and reaches the gate at ATL an average of 23.4 minutes late. The 2.0 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 22.6 minutes on the taxiways at EWR, 4.3 minutes longer than a typical EWR departure in the same hour.
On arrival at ATL, F94601 spends 24.8 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 15.3 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 6,518 departures from EWR scheduled in the clock hour F94601 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 F94601’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2024 – July 2026
The hour it leaves EWR
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. F94601 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 6,518 departures from EWR are scheduled in the 5 AM–6 AM hour over the period, against 387,621 across the whole day.
F94601 is scheduled out of EWR at 5:59 AM, in the 5 AM–6 AM bank. Departures from EWR in that hour arrive on time 89.3% of the time against 77.7% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 11.6 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from EWR 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 · November 2024 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes F94601 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TYS→ATL Knoxville/Maryville to Atlanta | December 7, 2025 | 1 | — |
| PHL→FLL Philadelphia to Fort Lauderdale | January 4, 2024 – May 13, 2024 | 87 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route F94601 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.
87 min late
against a median of 1 min early
F94601 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 1 min early, but the worst tenth are 88 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 632 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL1673 | Delta Air Lines | 84.8% | 5 min early | 816 |
| DL2353 | Delta Air Lines | 82.5% | 4 min early | 905 |
| DL2365 | Delta Air Lines | 81.7% | 7 min early | 873 |
| DL2325 | Delta Air Lines | 81.1% | 9 min early | 822 |
| DL2397 | Delta Air Lines | 79.8% | 6 min early | 882 |
| DL2401 | Delta Air Lines | 77.1% | 4 min early | 600 |
| DL2322 | Delta Air Lines | 68.5% | 3 min early | 829 |
| F94601 this flight | Frontier Airlines | 64.4% | 1 min early | 632 |
| DL2312 | Delta Air Lines | 55.7% | 7 min late | 696 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. F94601 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 632 records of F94601 operating EWR → 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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