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F9690

Denver (DEN) to Washington (DCA) · scheduled 4:38 PM – 9:59 PM

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How F9690 performs

850 operations, 2024-01-04 to 2026-06-30.

On-time arrivals
62.6%
525 of 838 completed
Cancellation rate
1.06%
9 cancelled
Median arrival delay
1 min
Average 18.9 min
Severe delays
16.2%
Arrived 60+ minutes late
Delay when late
70 min
Average, when 15+ min late
Departure punctuality
59.3%
Left the gate on time

F9690 arrived on time 62.6% of the time, against 79.0% for all DENDCA flights — this specific departure is 16.4 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Frontier Airlines’s own flights on this route it is 14.9 points worse.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 850 operations between 2024-01-04 to 2026-06-30

Against the rest of the route

On timeCancelledMedian delaySevereFlights
F969062.6%1.06%1 min16.2%850
Frontier Airlines on DENDCA77.5%1.17%-8 min8.3%3,163
All DENDCA flights79.0%0.96%-7 min7.6%4,259

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · 2024-01-04 to 2026-06-30

By day of week

Does F9690 run worse on particular days?

Monday50.0%
Tuesday67.5%
Wednesday
Thursday55.9%
Friday65.5%
Saturday75.8%
Sunday63.4%

Saturday is historically the most reliable day and Monday the least, a gap of 25.8 percentage points.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · 2024-01-04 to 2026-06-30 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.

Other routes F9690 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.

RouteOperatedFlightsOn time
CLEDCA Cleveland to Washington2024-05-272024-05-271
SLCDEN Salt Lake City to Denver2024-03-072024-04-0934
DENCID Denver to Cedar Rapids2023-07-022023-11-2511276.6%

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route F9690 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

Data and methodology

Calculated by FlyerIntel from 850 records of F9690 operating DENDCA, 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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