Flight profile · Frontier Airlines
F94602
Atlanta (ATL) to Newark (EWR) · scheduled 10:40 PM – 9:00 PM
How F94602 performs
626 operations, November 2024 – July 2026.
F94602 arrived on time 48.7% of the time, against 72.5% for all ATL → EWR flights — this specific departure is 23.8 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Frontier Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 7.0 points worse.
F94602’s scheduled departure has moved during the period FlyerIntel has on file: it typically left around 6:45 PM earlier on, and around 10:45 PM more recently — a 240-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 · 626 operations, November 2024 – July 2026 · If F94602 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 F94602 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight runs unusually far behind the ATL → EWR route as a whole — worse than 98% of 11,788 comparable flight numbers.
48.7% on time for this specific departure, against 72.5% for every ATL → EWR flight.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F94602 | 48.7% | 3.83% | 16 min | 29.8% | 626 |
| Frontier Airlines on ATL → EWR | 55.7% | 3.82% | 6 min | 24.8% | 1,048 |
| All ATL → EWR flights | 72.5% | 2.74% | -3 min | 12.1% | 18,656 |
F94602 has cancelled 3.83% of its scheduled departures (24 of 626), against 2.74% for all ATL → EWR flights — this specific departure cancels 1.1 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 F94602 specifically, not about the route it flies.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2024 – July 2026
Why F94602 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 F94602 on ATL → EWR. 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 November 2024 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves ATL late, does that still matter by the time it reaches EWR?
F94602 pushes back an average of 53.3 minutes late and reaches the gate at EWR an average of 43.6 minutes late. The 9.7 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 20.6 minutes on the taxiways at ATL, 4.1 minutes longer than a typical ATL departure in the same hour.
On arrival at EWR, F94602 spends 13.4 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 3.3 minutes longer than a typical EWR arrival (10.1 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 EWR. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 72,288 departures from ATL scheduled in the clock hour F94602 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at EWR (387,854 flights), not just F94602’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2024 – July 2026
The hour it leaves ATL
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. F94602 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 72,288 departures from ATL are scheduled in the 10 PM–11 PM hour over the period, against 1,012,247 across the whole day.
F94602 is scheduled out of ATL at 10:40 PM, in the 10 PM–11 PM bank. Departures from ATL in that hour arrive on time 75.3% of the time against 78.7% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 3.4 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from ATL 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 F94602 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLL→PHL Fort Lauderdale to Philadelphia | January 4, 2024 – August 12, 2024 | 128 | 61.7% |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route F94602 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.
133 min late
against a median of 16 min late
F94602 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 16 min late, but the worst tenth are 117 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 626 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 November 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL2397 | Delta Air Lines | 82.7% | 4 min early | 875 |
| DL2325 | Delta Air Lines | 81.5% | 1 min late | 741 |
| DL2401 | Delta Air Lines | 77.4% | 0 min early | 646 |
| DL2322 | Delta Air Lines | 71.7% | 1 min early | 883 |
| DL2552 | Delta Air Lines | 70.2% | 2 min early | 837 |
| UA555 | United Airlines | 65.0% | 1 min late | 766 |
| DL2312 | Delta Air Lines | 62.0% | 4 min late | 771 |
| DL2527 | Delta Air Lines | 59.0% | 6 min late | 755 |
| F94602 this flight | Frontier Airlines | 48.7% | 16 min late | 626 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. F94602 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 626 records of F94602 operating ATL → EWR, 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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