Tampa International in March 2024

71.7%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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 8,040 domestic departures from Tampa International (TPA). 71.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 68.8% reached their destination on time; 1.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so TPA departures were 6.8 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at TPA that month were on time 68.3% of the time (8,043 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 52%, air carrier 23% and national aviation system 22%.

On time 68.8%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 29.4%
Cancelled 1.6%
Diverted 0.2%

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

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

Measure	Mar 2024	Year earlier	TPA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	71.7%	—	76.5%	78.5%
Arrived on time	68.8%	—	76.9%	78.3%
Cancelled	1.6%	—	1.6%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	23.7 min	—	17.0 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	268	—	210	19,726
Scheduled departures	8,040	—	76,797	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	2,611	32%	67.2%	17.7 min	1.7%
AA American Airlines	1,211	15%	65.2%	25.6 min	1.8%
DL Delta Air Lines	1,150	14%	73.6%	14.5 min	0.1%
UA United Airlines	855	11%	75.8%	9.8 min	0.7%
F9 Frontier Airlines	769	10%	65.0%	26.9 min	2.3%
NK Spirit Airlines	767	10%	70.5%	15.0 min	2.7%
B6 JetBlue Airways	473	6%	68.5%	21.2 min	2.1%
AS Alaska Airlines	107	1%	52.3%	44.5 min	0.9%
MQ Envoy Air	97	1%	75.3%	12.9 min	2.1%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
TPA–ATL	Tampa to Atlanta	615	69.9%	16.3 min	0.8%
TPA–CLT	Tampa to Charlotte	363	68.0%	20.2 min	0.8%
TPA–DEN	Tampa to Denver	362	68.2%	18.2 min	2.8%
TPA–ORD	Tampa to Chicago	334	74.0%	15.3 min	1.2%
TPA–BWI	Tampa to Baltimore	294	68.4%	17.4 min	1.7%
TPA–DFW	Tampa to Dallas/Fort Worth	287	57.8%	36.2 min	2.4%
TPA–PHL	Tampa to Philadelphia	287	70.7%	13.6 min	1.7%
TPA–DTW	Tampa to Detroit	280	68.9%	22.1 min	1.1%
TPA–BOS	Tampa to Boston	271	77.9%	8.3 min	2.6%
TPA–EWR	Tampa to Newark	249	75.5%	7.1 min	0.8%
TPA–LGA	Tampa to New York	240	76.7%	14.2 min	0.8%
TPA–BNA	Tampa to Nashville	222	73.4%	14.0 min	1.8%

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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	22.9%	32.1%	43,913
Late-arriving aircraft	51.8%	42.1%	99,419
National Aviation System	22.2%	21.4%	42,698
Extreme weather	3.1%	4.2%	5,983
Security	0.0%	0.2%	83

192,096 delay minutes on 2,363 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 March 2024?

71.7% of 8,040 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 68.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

March 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 March 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.