Tampa International in February 2024

86.2%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 February 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 6,571 domestic departures from Tampa International (TPA). 86.2% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.1% reached their destination on time; 0.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 84.0% of flights departed on time and 83.4% arrived on time, so TPA departures were 2.2 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at TPA that month were on time 83.6% of the time (6,573 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 47%, air carrier 31% and national aviation system 21%.

On time 84.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.3%
Cancelled 0.4%
Diverted 0.3%

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

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

Measure	Feb 2024	Year earlier	TPA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Feb 2024
Departed on time	86.2%	—	76.5%	84.0%
Arrived on time	84.1%	—	76.9%	83.4%
Cancelled	0.4%	—	1.6%	0.6%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	9.3 min	—	17.0 min	11.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	219	—	210	17,307
Scheduled departures	6,571	—	76,797	519,221

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	1,946	30%	85.0%	0.0 min	0.1%
AA American Airlines	1,094	17%	80.3%	10.6 min	0.1%
DL Delta Air Lines	946	14%	89.3%	-2.7 min	0.3%
UA United Airlines	763	12%	87.8%	-3.0 min	0.5%
NK Spirit Airlines	619	9%	82.4%	1.0 min	0.6%
F9 Frontier Airlines	584	9%	84.8%	-1.7 min	0.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways	424	6%	77.1%	7.0 min	2.4%
AS Alaska Airlines	101	2%	70.3%	4.5 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	90	1%	78.9%	10.1 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	4	0%	75.0%	-1.7 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
TPA–ATL	Tampa to Atlanta	543	88.2%	-3.6 min	0.2%
TPA–CLT	Tampa to Charlotte	316	76.9%	9.0 min	0.0%
TPA–ORD	Tampa to Chicago	292	86.0%	-3.4 min	0.0%
TPA–DEN	Tampa to Denver	287	81.2%	4.3 min	0.3%
TPA–BWI	Tampa to Baltimore	249	88.8%	-2.7 min	0.0%
TPA–DFW	Tampa to Dallas/Fort Worth	247	81.8%	1.7 min	0.0%
TPA–EWR	Tampa to Newark	239	88.7%	-7.7 min	0.8%
TPA–PHL	Tampa to Philadelphia	230	85.2%	6.4 min	0.4%
TPA–LGA	Tampa to New York	226	81.9%	4.0 min	2.7%
TPA–DTW	Tampa to Detroit	212	86.3%	3.8 min	0.0%
TPA–BOS	Tampa to Boston	210	81.4%	3.8 min	1.9%
TPA–MIA	Tampa to Miami	203	81.3%	12.3 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), February 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Feb 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	31.2%	35.9%	17,338
Late-arriving aircraft	47.0%	36.9%	26,101
National Aviation System	21.4%	21.7%	11,903
Extreme weather	0.3%	5.3%	182
Security	0.0%	0.3%	7

55,531 delay minutes on 1,006 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 February 2024?

86.2% of 6,571 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 84.0% and 83.4%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

February 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 February 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.