Tampa International in May 2024

72.8%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 May 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 6,846 domestic departures from Tampa International (TPA). 72.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 69.8% reached their destination on time; 1.1% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 73.4% of flights departed on time and 72.3% arrived on time, so TPA departures were 0.6 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at TPA that month were on time 70.2% of the time (6,843 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 49%, national aviation system 25% and air carrier 23%.

On time 69.8%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 28.6%
Cancelled 1.1%
Diverted 0.5%

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

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

Measure	May 2024	Year earlier	TPA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, May 2024
Departed on time	72.8%	—	76.5%	73.4%
Arrived on time	69.8%	—	76.9%	72.3%
Cancelled	1.1%	—	1.6%	1.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	24.1 min	—	17.0 min	20.8 min
Scheduled departures a day	228	—	210	20,325
Scheduled departures	6,846	—	76,797	609,743

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	2,135	31%	70.2%	20.0 min	0.6%
AA American Airlines	1,166	17%	64.2%	29.1 min	2.6%
DL Delta Air Lines	1,141	17%	77.1%	15.5 min	0.2%
UA United Airlines	745	11%	73.2%	21.1 min	1.1%
F9 Frontier Airlines	553	8%	67.6%	18.2 min	1.8%
B6 JetBlue Airways	465	7%	63.4%	28.1 min	1.1%
NK Spirit Airlines	424	6%	73.1%	11.4 min	1.2%
MQ Envoy Air	123	2%	60.2%	20.4 min	2.4%
AS Alaska Airlines	93	1%	55.9%	16.3 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	1	0%	100.0%	0.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
TPA–ATL	Tampa to Atlanta	614	73.9%	17.5 min	0.7%
TPA–CLT	Tampa to Charlotte	344	64.5%	28.0 min	2.3%
TPA–BWI	Tampa to Baltimore	289	75.8%	12.6 min	0.7%
TPA–DEN	Tampa to Denver	269	71.4%	22.3 min	0.7%
TPA–ORD	Tampa to Chicago	269	65.4%	21.8 min	2.2%
TPA–DFW	Tampa to Dallas/Fort Worth	268	50.4%	38.3 min	6.3%
TPA–MIA	Tampa to Miami	262	76.3%	17.7 min	1.5%
TPA–EWR	Tampa to Newark	257	78.2%	12.5 min	0.8%
TPA–BOS	Tampa to Boston	231	72.3%	18.4 min	0.0%
TPA–PHL	Tampa to Philadelphia	223	73.5%	18.5 min	0.0%
TPA–LGA	Tampa to New York	214	75.2%	17.1 min	0.5%
TPA–DTW	Tampa to Detroit	209	76.6%	12.1 min	1.4%

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), May 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, May 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	22.9%	29.8%	38,807
Late-arriving aircraft	48.5%	43.0%	82,233
National Aviation System	25.1%	20.1%	42,609
Extreme weather	3.6%	7.0%	6,057
Security	0.0%	0.1%	20

169,726 delay minutes on 1,958 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 May 2024?

72.8% of 6,846 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 69.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 73.4% and 72.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

May 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 May 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.