Tampa International in December 2023

81.1%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 December 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 7,257 domestic departures from Tampa International (TPA). 81.1% left less than 15 minutes late and 82.9% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.1% of flights departed on time and 83.8% arrived on time, so TPA departures were 2.0 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at TPA that month were on time 78.3% of the time (7,261 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 54%, air carrier 31% and national aviation system 13%.

On time 82.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 16.6%
Cancelled 0.3%
Diverted 0.2%

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

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

Measure	Dec 2023	Year earlier	TPA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Dec 2023
Departed on time	81.1%	—	76.5%	83.1%
Arrived on time	82.9%	—	76.9%	83.8%
Cancelled	0.3%	—	1.6%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	13.1 min	—	17.0 min	11.6 min
Scheduled departures a day	242	—	210	19,013
Scheduled departures	7,257	—	76,797	570,394

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	2,179	30%	80.8%	4.4 min	0.7%
DL Delta Air Lines	1,101	15%	89.1%	-5.3 min	0.1%
AA American Airlines	1,054	15%	84.0%	8.3 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	790	11%	90.1%	-6.5 min	0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines	692	10%	81.2%	1.2 min	0.1%
F9 Frontier Airlines	627	9%	79.3%	1.7 min	0.5%
B6 JetBlue Airways	543	7%	75.9%	10.5 min	0.7%
AS Alaska Airlines	142	2%	83.8%	-1.2 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	126	2%	67.5%	14.7 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	3	0%	66.7%	1.3 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
TPA–ATL	Tampa to Atlanta	605	83.6%	-0.1 min	0.3%
TPA–CLT	Tampa to Charlotte	318	84.9%	4.6 min	0.0%
TPA–DEN	Tampa to Denver	309	85.1%	-2.5 min	0.0%
TPA–ORD	Tampa to Chicago	309	91.9%	-7.4 min	0.0%
TPA–BWI	Tampa to Baltimore	305	80.3%	5.1 min	0.0%
TPA–PHL	Tampa to Philadelphia	261	79.7%	14.8 min	0.0%
TPA–EWR	Tampa to Newark	256	87.5%	-5.9 min	0.0%
TPA–BOS	Tampa to Boston	247	76.1%	8.2 min	1.2%
TPA–DFW	Tampa to Dallas/Fort Worth	240	81.3%	1.9 min	0.0%
TPA–LGA	Tampa to New York	238	86.6%	0.2 min	0.8%
TPA–DTW	Tampa to Detroit	229	86.5%	-1.2 min	0.0%
TPA–JFK	Tampa to New York	225	81.8%	5.7 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), December 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Dec 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	31.0%	37.1%	24,218
Late-arriving aircraft	54.1%	38.8%	42,318
National Aviation System	13.2%	17.6%	10,326
Extreme weather	1.6%	6.2%	1,269
Security	0.1%	0.3%	73

78,204 delay minutes on 1,206 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 December 2023?

81.1% of 7,257 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 82.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.1% and 83.8%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

December 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 December 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.