Look I love the low fares Frontier provides as much as the next guy... but lately with their horrid on-time performance and cancellations, I find it interesting that on virtually no flights can you find on-time statistics when purchasing your flight on their website.

Great example: DEN-DCA. These flights have operated for over a decade at almost the exact same times every day; the only thing that has changed are the flight numbers. Yet, when you try to book on the website, you get this classic message "*No Data Available � New Flight Schedule or Flight Minimally Operated for Reporting Month". This isn't just on that route either... it's everywhere you look! I can understand 2x weekly frequencies, but certainly not on ones that operate 3x a day like DEN-DCA/LAS/etc.

By the way... neither of the conditions in their disclaimer is true... the flights to DCA for example have had an almost identical schedule for years and operate daily. Southwest estimates past on-time percentage based on flights that could be hours different from the new schedule... F9 seems to claim "sorry...not reporting it" for flights that change by mere minutes.

I'm a bit ranty because they just cancelled my flight later today (conveniently on DEN-DCA) and cancelled a friend's earlier this week, and clearly this is an airline operating way too thin at the moment. But I still think this warrants discussion...seems very suspicious to me.

How interesting... today I see on-time statistics for every flight I'm looking at

One must wonder if somebody at F9 reads FT after all

That would be a violation of the Federal regulation that requires carriers to report on-time performance and display it to customers. Flight schedule changes by less than 30 minutes and the 'old' performance is reported. Changing the flight number doesn't do anything, either - an FT myth beloved by cynics.

I doubt that. The reporting requirements are very specific.​​​​​​​