Tampa International in November 2023

86.4%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 November 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 6,737 domestic departures from Tampa International (TPA). 86.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 87.3% reached their destination on time; 0.1% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 86.0% of flights departed on time and 86.2% arrived on time, so TPA departures were level with the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at TPA that month were on time 84.6% of the time (6,743 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 51%, air carrier 37% and national aviation system 12%.

On time 87.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 12.5%
Cancelled 0.1%
Diverted 0.1%

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

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

Measure	Nov 2023	Year earlier	TPA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Nov 2023
Departed on time	86.4%	—	76.5%	86.0%
Arrived on time	87.3%	—	76.9%	86.2%
Cancelled	0.1%	—	1.6%	0.1%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	9.2 min	—	17.0 min	9.4 min
Scheduled departures a day	225	—	210	18,793
Scheduled departures	6,737	—	76,797	563,777

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	2,071	31%	87.5%	-1.3 min	0.1%
AA American Airlines	1,002	15%	86.4%	4.1 min	0.1%
DL Delta Air Lines	979	15%	92.2%	-6.7 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	721	11%	92.1%	-9.5 min	0.3%
NK Spirit Airlines	633	9%	81.4%	4.4 min	0.3%
F9 Frontier Airlines	597	9%	85.9%	2.6 min	0.2%
B6 JetBlue Airways	487	7%	83.2%	1.0 min	0.2%
MQ Envoy Air	133	2%	82.0%	7.9 min	0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines	112	2%	83.0%	-1.0 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	2	0%	100.0%	-11.5 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
TPA–ATL	Tampa to Atlanta	552	88.2%	-3.2 min	0.0%
TPA–CLT	Tampa to Charlotte	318	89.0%	10.8 min	0.0%
TPA–BWI	Tampa to Baltimore	287	87.5%	-1.6 min	0.3%
TPA–DEN	Tampa to Denver	282	88.7%	-5.0 min	0.4%
TPA–ORD	Tampa to Chicago	271	93.4%	-7.7 min	0.0%
TPA–LGA	Tampa to New York	253	92.1%	-8.6 min	0.0%
TPA–DFW	Tampa to Dallas/Fort Worth	250	80.0%	1.3 min	0.4%
TPA–EWR	Tampa to Newark	238	89.9%	-4.8 min	0.0%
TPA–PHL	Tampa to Philadelphia	231	86.6%	0.3 min	0.0%
TPA–BOS	Tampa to Boston	221	82.8%	-3.3 min	0.5%
TPA–DTW	Tampa to Detroit	219	85.8%	2.4 min	0.0%
TPA–JFK	Tampa to New York	190	87.4%	-3.9 min	0.0%

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), November 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Nov 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	37.0%	42.5%	19,025
Late-arriving aircraft	50.8%	37.3%	26,164
National Aviation System	12.0%	16.2%	6,189
Extreme weather	0.1%	3.7%	60
Security	0.1%	0.3%	27

51,465 delay minutes on 841 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 November 2023?

86.4% of 6,737 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 87.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 86.0% and 86.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

November 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 November 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.