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Tampa (TPA) departure delays

5,964 departures · 58 routes · March 2025 – August 2026

75.49%

Left on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

0.86%

Cancelled

Share of departures

66 min

When late, late by

Average delayed departure

#63

Rank

Among graded US airports

What the record says about TPA

Departures from Tampa run late more often than average — enough that a tight connection at the far end deserves a second look.

The airlines flying from here are not equally affected. Virgin Atlantic left on time 14 points more often than Southwest Airlines from the same airport — which is the clearest evidence available that a delayed departure is not purely the airport's fault.

With 40 routes in the record, TPA is a hub, and hubs carry a particular risk: a delay early in the day propagates through every aircraft that was due to fly on afterwards. Morning departures from a hub are reliably better than evening ones.

Which airlines run best out of TPA

Airline	Departures	On time
Virgin Atlantic	475	87.7%
Delta Air Lines	1,168	84.9%
JetBlue Airways	445	80.4%
Frontier Airlines	534	80.1%
United Airlines	613	78.1%
American Airlines	1,097	75.7%
British Airways	473	74.7%
Southwest Airlines	1,926	73.7%

Routes out of TPA

TPA → ATL Atlanta 533 flights · 83.78% on time B TPA → LGW London 429 flights · 74.52% on time C TPA → LHR London 422 flights · 88.89% on time A TPA → DEN Denver 267 flights · 73.31% on time C TPA → DFW Dallas/Fort Worth 260 flights · 65.57% on time F TPA → MIA Miami 227 flights · 78.76% on time C TPA → BNA Nashville 214 flights · 72.3% on time C TPA → ORD Chicago 212 flights · 73.33% on time C TPA → CLT Charlotte 210 flights · 83.09% on time B TPA → EWR Newark 208 flights · 80.49% on time B TPA → PHL Philadelphia 206 flights · 70.59% on time D TPA → BOS Boston 204 flights · 82.18% on time B TPA → BWI Baltimore 203 flights · 81.91% on time B TPA → JFK New York 200 flights · 79.49% on time C TPA → LGA New York 190 flights · 82.61% on time B TPA → DCA Washington 176 flights · 77.19% on time C TPA → SJU San Juan 167 flights · 74.7% on time C TPA → DTW Detroit 133 flights · 84.73% on time B TPA → MDW Chicago 128 flights · 68.5% on time D TPA → RDU Raleigh/Durham 114 flights · 88.29% on time B TPA → AUS Austin 113 flights · 73.87% on time C TPA → DAL Dallas 110 flights · 69.72% on time D TPA → MSP Minneapolis 110 flights · 79.09% on time B TPA → IAH Houston 107 flights · 77.14% on time C TPA → LAS Las Vegas 105 flights · 75.96% on time C TPA → STL St. Louis 99 flights · 82.83% on time — TPA → IAD Washington 95 flights · 87.37% on time — TPA → PHX Phoenix 90 flights · 78.89% on time — TPA → HOU Houston 90 flights · 76.67% on time — TPA → CLE Cleveland 90 flights · 77.78% on time — TPA → SEA Seattle 90 flights · 75.56% on time — TPA → LAX Los Angeles 83 flights · 78.31% on time — TPA → FLL Fort Lauderdale 73 flights · 78.08% on time — TPA → PIT Pittsburgh 69 flights · 71.01% on time — TPA → CMH Columbus 69 flights · 79.71% on time — TPA → SAN San Diego 60 flights · 67.8% on time — TPA → MCI Kansas City 60 flights · 83.33% on time — TPA → BDL Hartford 60 flights · 76.67% on time — TPA → CVG Cincinnati 60 flights · 91.67% on time — TPA → IND Indianapolis 58 flights · 66.67% on time —