DFW to TPA flight delays
Dallas/Fort Worth, TX (DFW) Tampa, FL (TPA) · 929 miles
260 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
50.2%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
5%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
69 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
36 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 5% of scheduled flights never operated. A late flight still gets you there. A cancelled one leaves you rebooking, and on a route with few daily departures that can mean losing a day.
Flights from Dallas/Fort Worth to Tampa arrive late more often than they arrive on time. At this rate lateness is the normal outcome, not the exception, and the schedule is better read as an aspiration than a plan.
The two directions do not behave alike. TPA to DFW arrives on time 15.4 points more often than the outbound. Delay accumulates through the flying day, so whichever direction is scheduled later tends to carry the worse record — which is an argument for booking the morning departure if the choice exists.
This route does worse than its own airport. DFW as a whole runs 11.9 points more punctual than these flights, which points at something specific to the route — the time of day it is scheduled, or the aircraft that feed it — rather than the airport.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over March 2025 – August 2026, American Airlines arrived on time most often on DFW to TPA.
Every airline on DFW to TPA
Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Avg delay | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 228 | 46.98% | 5.7% | 71 min | F |
| Frontier Airlines | 32 | 71.88% | 0% | 52 min | — |
The return leg
TPA to DFW Tampa back to Dallas/Fort Worth 65.57% on time FOther routes from Dallas/Fort Worth
Common questions
Are flights from Dallas/Fort Worth to Tampa usually delayed?
50.2% of flights on the DFW to TPA route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 5 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.
Which airlines fly from Dallas/Fort Worth to Tampa?
Only American Airlines appears in the published record on this route, with 228 flights and 46.98% arriving on time.
How often are DFW to TPA flights cancelled?
5% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 50 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
When DFW to TPA flights are late, how late are they?
About 69 minutes on average across the flights that arrived more than 15 minutes behind schedule.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on DFW to TPA during March 2025 – August 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.
A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.
Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →