Tampa International in July 2024

65.6%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 July 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 6,327 domestic departures from Tampa International (TPA). 65.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 63.6% reached their destination on time; 2.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 68.5% of flights departed on time and 68.1% arrived on time, so TPA departures were 2.9 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at TPA that month were on time 61.8% of the time (6,327 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 47%, air carrier 27% and national aviation system 20%.

On time 63.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 33.4%
Cancelled 2.7%
Diverted 0.4%

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

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

Measure	Jul 2024	Year earlier	TPA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jul 2024
Departed on time	65.6%	—	76.5%	68.5%
Arrived on time	63.6%	—	76.9%	68.1%
Cancelled	2.7%	—	1.6%	2.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	28.8 min	—	17.0 min	24.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	211	—	210	21,154
Scheduled departures	6,327	—	76,797	634,613

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	2,047	32%	66.7%	15.5 min	0.3%
DL Delta Air Lines	1,082	17%	60.4%	32.6 min	6.0%
AA American Airlines	1,017	16%	59.7%	36.9 min	3.1%
UA United Airlines	644	10%	64.1%	19.9 min	3.7%
F9 Frontier Airlines	504	8%	65.5%	17.3 min	2.4%
NK Spirit Airlines	449	7%	66.4%	16.1 min	5.1%
B6 JetBlue Airways	403	6%	64.5%	26.7 min	0.7%
AS Alaska Airlines	93	1%	51.6%	20.7 min	2.2%
MQ Envoy Air	88	1%	55.7%	33.9 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
TPA–ATL	Tampa to Atlanta	574	54.5%	40.5 min	3.8%
TPA–CLT	Tampa to Charlotte	305	48.9%	51.9 min	6.6%
TPA–DEN	Tampa to Denver	291	69.8%	12.4 min	1.7%
TPA–BWI	Tampa to Baltimore	290	63.8%	19.8 min	1.4%
TPA–DFW	Tampa to Dallas/Fort Worth	261	67.0%	28.4 min	0.8%
TPA–EWR	Tampa to Newark	244	63.1%	25.7 min	3.3%
TPA–ORD	Tampa to Chicago	228	63.2%	14.8 min	3.1%
TPA–BNA	Tampa to Nashville	210	58.6%	24.0 min	0.0%
TPA–MIA	Tampa to Miami	192	72.9%	14.9 min	2.1%
TPA–LGA	Tampa to New York	186	60.2%	29.6 min	2.7%
TPA–PHL	Tampa to Philadelphia	185	58.9%	36.1 min	3.8%
TPA–BOS	Tampa to Boston	184	61.4%	28.9 min	4.3%

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), July 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jul 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	27.3%	36.6%	48,594
Late-arriving aircraft	46.6%	42.7%	83,040
National Aviation System	19.8%	16.0%	35,363
Extreme weather	6.3%	4.6%	11,211
Security	0.0%	0.1%	68

178,276 delay minutes on 2,111 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 July 2024?

65.6% of 6,327 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 63.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 68.5% and 68.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

July 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 July 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.