Flight profile · Frontier Airlines
F94837
Orlando (MCO) to Indianapolis (IND) · scheduled 3:15 PM – 6:00 PM
How F94837 performs
610 operations, November 2023 – July 2026.
F94837 arrived on time 76.8% of the time, against 75.5% for all MCO → IND flights, so this departure is 1.3 percentage points better than the route as a whole.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 610 operations, November 2023 – July 2026 · If F94837 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where F94837 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F94837 | 76.8% | 1.64% | -10 min | 10.7% | 610 |
| Frontier Airlines on MCO → IND | 76.4% | 1.76% | -10 min | 10.7% | 967 |
| All MCO → IND flights | 75.5% | 1.27% | -3 min | 8.7% | 7,418 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – July 2026
Why F94837 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 F94837 on MCO → IND. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies F94837 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying F94837 came in 15 or more minutes late on 23% of the departures where its previous flight is known. There are not enough departures in both groups to say how the flight left after a late one and after an on-time one.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into MCO just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 516 of 601 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 |
|---|---|
| F94837 | 23% |
| Network, same turn | 17% |
The schedule leaves a normal turn: enough time to clean and board if the aircraft is on time, little to spare if it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 60 to 89 minutes. How often F94837’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s. There are not enough departures in both groups to compare how it left.
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 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves MCO late, does that still matter by the time it reaches IND?
F94837 pushes back an average of 14.8 minutes late and reaches the gate at IND an average of 8.6 minutes late. The 6.2 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. Its 20.9 minutes on the taxiways at MCO is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at IND, F94837 spends 8.1 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 1.2 minutes longer than a typical IND arrival (7.0 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 IND. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 28,638 departures from MCO scheduled in the clock hour F94837 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at IND (147,137 flights), not just F94837’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves MCO
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. F94837 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 28,638 departures from MCO are scheduled in the 3 PM–4 PM hour over the period, against 498,221 across the whole day.
F94837 is scheduled out of MCO at 3:15 PM, in the 3 PM–4 PM bank. Departures from MCO in that hour arrive on time 68.5% of the time against 74.8% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 6.3 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from MCO 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 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes F94837 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SJU→CLE San Juan to Cleveland | July 1, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 39 | — |
| CLE→ATL Cleveland to Atlanta | July 2, 2023 – August 15, 2023 | 20 | — |
| CLE→DEN Cleveland to Denver | July 1, 2023 – August 12, 2023 | 7 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route F94837 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.
64 min late
against a median of 10 min early
F94837 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 10 min early, but the worst tenth are 74 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 are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – July 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 610 records of F94837 operating MCO → IND, 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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