OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Cincinnati to Tampa

773 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on CVG–TPA arrive on time 75% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate75%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay50 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.4%of scheduled flights

based on 555 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Too close to call — no single carrier is clearly more on-time here.

  • Delta Air Lines
    On-time76%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights244
  • Frontier Airlines
    On-time74%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel2.6%
    Flights311

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline33%
  • Weather6%
  • Air traffic (NAS)22%
  • Late aircraft38%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly CVG → TPA

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 87% on time.

  • Mornings87% on time · p90 20 min · 725 flights
  • Middays77% on time · p90 50 min · 352 flights
  • Afternoons74% on time · p90 55 min · 1,101 flights
  • Overnights68% on time · p90 70 min · 161 flights · limited
  • Evenings57% on time · p90 90 min · 317 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 70% to 83% on time.

  • Tuesdays83% on time · p90 40 min · 284 flights
  • Mondays78% on time · p90 50 min · 423 flights
  • Fridays77% on time · p90 45 min · 425 flights
  • Wednesdays76% on time · p90 45 min · 338 flights
  • Thursdays74% on time · p90 60 min · 373 flights
  • Saturdays73% on time · p90 55 min · 412 flights
  • Sundays70% on time · p90 80 min · 401 flights
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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.