Tampa International in October 2023

85.0%departed on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In October 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 6,607 domestic departures from Tampa International (TPA). 85.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 85.4% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.8% of flights departed on time and 84.0% arrived on time, so TPA departures were 1.2 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at TPA that month were on time 82.5% of the time (6,608 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 50%, air carrier 33% and national aviation system 16%.

On time 85.4%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 14.2%
Cancelled 0.3%
Diverted 0.1%

Every scheduled departure from TPA in October 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

October 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Oct 2023	Year earlier	TPA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Oct 2023
Departed on time	85.0%	—	76.5%	83.8%
Arrived on time	85.4%	—	76.9%	84.0%
Cancelled	0.3%	—	1.6%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	10.7 min	—	17.0 min	11.0 min
Scheduled departures a day	220	—	210	19,966
Scheduled departures	6,607	—	76,797	598,968

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	2,157	33%	84.8%	2.6 min	0.2%
DL Delta Air Lines	1,037	16%	91.0%	-3.5 min	0.1%
AA American Airlines	985	15%	84.9%	3.3 min	0.2%
UA United Airlines	627	9%	93.1%	-9.4 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	598	9%	78.9%	4.4 min	0.7%
NK Spirit Airlines	528	8%	83.1%	4.9 min	1.1%
B6 JetBlue Airways	444	7%	78.4%	10.9 min	0.5%
MQ Envoy Air	142	2%	79.6%	9.5 min	0.7%
AS Alaska Airlines	89	1%	86.5%	-4.8 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
TPA–ATL	Tampa to Atlanta	557	84.9%	2.5 min	0.2%
TPA–CLT	Tampa to Charlotte	292	80.5%	8.2 min	0.3%
TPA–ORD	Tampa to Chicago	279	88.2%	-3.1 min	0.0%
TPA–DEN	Tampa to Denver	256	85.5%	0.5 min	0.8%
TPA–DFW	Tampa to Dallas/Fort Worth	250	80.8%	6.1 min	1.2%
TPA–BWI	Tampa to Baltimore	242	86.8%	-0.8 min	0.0%
TPA–LGA	Tampa to New York	233	89.3%	-1.9 min	0.0%
TPA–BOS	Tampa to Boston	225	78.7%	5.7 min	0.9%
TPA–PHL	Tampa to Philadelphia	224	85.3%	2.5 min	0.0%
TPA–DTW	Tampa to Detroit	222	89.2%	0.7 min	0.0%
TPA–EWR	Tampa to Newark	212	92.0%	-12.7 min	0.0%
TPA–DCA	Tampa to Washington	190	88.4%	-4.5 min	0.5%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), October 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Oct 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	32.8%	41.3%	20,672
Late-arriving aircraft	49.9%	40.5%	31,441
National Aviation System	15.7%	14.4%	9,887
Extreme weather	1.5%	3.7%	919
Security	0.1%	0.2%	35

62,954 delay minutes on 937 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

How many flights left TPA on time in October 2023?

85.0% of 6,607 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 85.4% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.8% and 84.0%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

October 2022 is outside the 36 months on file, or the airport had too few reported flights that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for October 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for TPA · methodology · corrections.