Flight profile · Frontier Airlines
F9689
Washington (DCA) to Denver (DEN) · scheduled 6:00 PM – 8:12 PM
How F9689 performs
867 operations, 2023-11-16 to 2026-06-30.
F9689 arrived on time 66.4% of the time, against 79.2% for all DCA → DEN flights — this specific departure is 12.8 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Frontier Airlines’s own flights on this route it is 13.7 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 867 operations between 2023-11-16 to 2026-06-30
Against the rest of the route
| On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F9689 | 66.4% | 1.61% | -1 min | 15.4% | 867 |
| Frontier Airlines on DCA → DEN | 80.1% | 1.36% | -10 min | 8.0% | 3,160 |
| All DCA → DEN flights | 79.2% | 1.08% | -9 min | 8.8% | 4,256 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · 2023-11-16 to 2026-06-30
By day of week
Does F9689 run worse on particular days?
Saturday is historically the most reliable day and Friday the least, a gap of 13.7 percentage points.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · 2023-11-16 to 2026-06-30 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.
Other routes F9689 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.
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route F9689 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 867 records of F9689 operating DCA → DEN, 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.