Tampa International in May 2025

75.9%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 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 6,969 domestic departures from Tampa International (TPA). 75.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 75.9% reached their destination on time; 0.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 76.7% of flights departed on time and 75.4% arrived on time, so TPA departures were 0.8 points below the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in May 2024, the airport had 6,846 departures with 72.8% leaving on time: a change of +3.1 points, with flights up 2%.

Flights arriving at TPA that month were on time 74.1% of the time (6,968 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 44%, national aviation system 30% and air carrier 21%.

On time 75.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 23.4%
Cancelled 0.6%
Diverted 0.1%

Every scheduled departure from TPA in May 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

May 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	May 2025	May 2024	TPA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, May 2025
Departed on time	75.9%	72.8%	76.5%	76.7%
Arrived on time	75.9%	69.8%	76.9%	75.4%
Cancelled	0.6%	1.1%	1.6%	1.0%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	16.8 min	24.1 min	17.0 min	17.5 min
Scheduled departures a day	232	228	210	20,188
Scheduled departures	6,969	6,846	76,797	605,648

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	2,109	30%	78.9%	6.5 min	0.2%
AA American Airlines	1,227	18%	77.3%	6.7 min	1.4%
DL Delta Air Lines	1,169	17%	79.0%	6.3 min	0.1%
UA United Airlines	756	11%	71.0%	15.7 min	1.1%
F9 Frontier Airlines	620	9%	70.5%	13.9 min	1.5%
B6 JetBlue Airways	467	7%	70.2%	12.5 min	0.2%
NK Spirit Airlines	408	6%	76.0%	13.1 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	120	2%	71.7%	13.3 min	2.5%
AS Alaska Airlines	93	1%	58.1%	14.5 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
TPA–ATL	Tampa to Atlanta	551	75.3%	9.4 min	0.7%
TPA–CLT	Tampa to Charlotte	315	80.3%	2.7 min	0.3%
TPA–MIA	Tampa to Miami	302	83.1%	4.3 min	2.0%
TPA–ORD	Tampa to Chicago	265	75.8%	5.8 min	0.0%
TPA–BWI	Tampa to Baltimore	252	81.7%	2.5 min	0.0%
TPA–DEN	Tampa to Denver	247	72.1%	12.4 min	0.4%
TPA–BOS	Tampa to Boston	243	75.3%	7.5 min	0.0%
TPA–DFW	Tampa to Dallas/Fort Worth	242	69.0%	16.8 min	2.9%
TPA–LGA	Tampa to New York	235	67.2%	17.2 min	0.4%
TPA–PHL	Tampa to Philadelphia	234	66.7%	13.6 min	1.3%
TPA–EWR	Tampa to Newark	222	47.3%	49.0 min	2.7%
TPA–BNA	Tampa to Nashville	218	72.9%	9.4 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 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, May 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	21.1%	29.3%	22,975
Late-arriving aircraft	43.5%	37.8%	47,408
National Aviation System	30.1%	25.9%	32,784
Extreme weather	5.3%	6.9%	5,827
Security	0.1%	0.1%	76

109,070 delay minutes on 1,628 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 2025?

75.9% of 6,969 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 75.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 76.7% and 75.4%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In May 2024, 72.8% of 6,846 departures left on time and 1.1% were cancelled, against 75.9% and 0.6% in May 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for May 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.