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Airport month · January 2025
Tampa International in January 2025
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 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 6,454 domestic departures from Tampa International (TPA). 78.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.0% reached their destination on time; 2.0% were cancelled.
Nationally that month, 79.3% of flights departed on time and 78.6% arrived on time, so TPA departures were 0.5 points below the national departure figure.
A year earlier, in January 2024, the airport had 6,822 departures with 76.0% leaving on time: a change of +2.8 points, with flights down 5%.
Flights arriving at TPA that month were on time 76.4% of the time (6,456 scheduled arrivals).
Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 52%, air carrier 29% and national aviation system 15%.
- On time 80.0%
- Arrived 15+ minutes late 17.9%
- Cancelled 2.0%
- Diverted 0.2%
January 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation
| Measure | Jan 2025 | Jan 2024 | TPA, 12 months to Jul 2026 | All reported flights, Jan 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departed on time | 78.8% | 76.0% | 76.5% | 79.3% |
| Arrived on time | 80.0% | 77.1% | 76.9% | 78.6% |
| Cancelled | 2.0% | 3.1% | 1.6% | 3.0% |
| Average departure delay (late minutes only) | 13.7 min | 16.3 min | 17.0 min | 14.0 min |
| Scheduled departures a day | 215 | 227 | 210 | 17,992 |
| Scheduled departures | 6,454 | 6,822 | 76,797 | 539,747 |
Airlines that month
| Reporting carrier | Flights | Share | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WN Southwest Airlines | 1,849 | 29% | 82.6% | 0.7 min | 2.4% |
| AA American Airlines | 1,196 | 19% | 80.4% | 3.6 min | 2.3% |
| DL Delta Air Lines | 1,044 | 16% | 75.4% | 9.7 min | 2.0% |
| UA United Airlines | 784 | 12% | 83.0% | 1.6 min | 1.0% |
| F9 Frontier Airlines | 566 | 9% | 74.4% | 5.9 min | 2.5% |
| B6 JetBlue Airways | 414 | 6% | 78.3% | 2.9 min | 1.4% |
| NK Spirit Airlines | 366 | 6% | 86.6% | -0.7 min | 1.6% |
| MQ Envoy Air | 137 | 2% | 68.6% | 14.6 min | 2.2% |
| AS Alaska Airlines | 95 | 1% | 78.9% | 5.0 min | 1.1% |
| YX Republic Airline | 3 | 0% | 100.0% | -3.7 min | 0.0% |
Busiest routes that month
| Route | Cities | Flights | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TPA–ATL | Tampa to Atlanta | 503 | 73.4% | 12.8 min | 4.8% |
| TPA–CLT | Tampa to Charlotte | 334 | 84.1% | -2.1 min | 2.1% |
| TPA–MIA | Tampa to Miami | 304 | 80.3% | 3.9 min | 0.3% |
| TPA–ORD | Tampa to Chicago | 279 | 81.0% | 5.3 min | 0.0% |
| TPA–DEN | Tampa to Denver | 266 | 80.5% | 7.7 min | 0.0% |
| TPA–EWR | Tampa to Newark | 255 | 80.0% | 0.4 min | 1.6% |
| TPA–BOS | Tampa to Boston | 236 | 76.7% | 4.3 min | 1.7% |
| TPA–DFW | Tampa to Dallas/Fort Worth | 235 | 74.0% | 7.5 min | 5.1% |
| TPA–BWI | Tampa to Baltimore | 217 | 83.4% | -5.5 min | 4.1% |
| TPA–JFK | Tampa to New York | 211 | 84.8% | -2.7 min | 0.9% |
| TPA–LGA | Tampa to New York | 204 | 79.9% | 6.6 min | 1.0% |
| TPA–PHL | Tampa to Philadelphia | 198 | 75.3% | 4.6 min | 0.5% |
By scheduled departure hour
Delay causes
Questions and answers
How many flights left TPA on time in January 2025?
78.8% of 6,454 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.3% and 78.6%.
How does that compare with a year earlier?
In January 2024, 76.0% of 6,822 departures left on time and 3.1% were cancelled, against 78.8% and 2.0% in January 2025.
Provenance
Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for January 2025; 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.