Tampa International in January 2024

76.0%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 January 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 6,822 domestic departures from Tampa International (TPA). 76.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 77.1% reached their destination on time; 3.1% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so TPA departures were 2.0 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at TPA that month were on time 70.7% of the time (6,823 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 54%, air carrier 28% and national aviation system 16%.

On time 77.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 19.5%
Cancelled 3.1%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled departure from TPA in January 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

January 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Jan 2024	Year earlier	TPA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time	76.0%	—	76.5%	74.0%
Arrived on time	77.1%	—	76.9%	72.9%
Cancelled	3.1%	—	1.6%	3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	16.3 min	—	17.0 min	18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	227	—	210	18,242
Scheduled departures	6,822	—	76,797	547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	2,068	30%	76.6%	4.8 min	3.1%
AA American Airlines	1,112	16%	74.7%	15.5 min	1.3%
DL Delta Air Lines	1,018	15%	84.0%	1.0 min	0.4%
UA United Airlines	783	11%	76.4%	1.9 min	9.3%
NK Spirit Airlines	586	9%	77.6%	3.5 min	1.4%
F9 Frontier Airlines	576	8%	78.6%	6.2 min	2.3%
B6 JetBlue Airways	458	7%	76.6%	7.3 min	1.1%
AS Alaska Airlines	117	2%	55.6%	7.5 min	21.4%
MQ Envoy Air	101	1%	66.3%	15.4 min	7.9%
YX Republic Airline	3	0%	100.0%	-26.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
TPA–ATL	Tampa to Atlanta	568	81.7%	3.1 min	0.4%
TPA–CLT	Tampa to Charlotte	315	81.6%	5.4 min	0.3%
TPA–ORD	Tampa to Chicago	308	80.2%	4.9 min	3.9%
TPA–DEN	Tampa to Denver	299	76.9%	5.1 min	3.3%
TPA–BWI	Tampa to Baltimore	268	81.0%	4.0 min	3.4%
TPA–EWR	Tampa to Newark	256	73.8%	-6.2 min	15.2%
TPA–PHL	Tampa to Philadelphia	245	73.5%	20.1 min	3.3%
TPA–DFW	Tampa to Dallas/Fort Worth	242	62.4%	29.6 min	1.7%
TPA–LGA	Tampa to New York	232	81.0%	8.0 min	0.0%
TPA–MIA	Tampa to Miami	211	74.9%	16.2 min	0.9%
TPA–DTW	Tampa to Detroit	203	73.4%	11.3 min	2.0%
TPA–DCA	Tampa to Washington	192	78.1%	5.7 min	3.1%

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), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	28.4%	32.6%	26,744
Late-arriving aircraft	53.9%	39.0%	50,779
National Aviation System	16.3%	17.9%	15,367
Extreme weather	1.4%	10.3%	1,288
Security	0.0%	0.2%	2

94,180 delay minutes on 1,329 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 January 2024?

76.0% of 6,822 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 77.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 74.0% and 72.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

January 2023 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 January 2024; 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.