OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Kansas City to Tampa

1,048 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on MCI–TPA arrive on time 77% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate77%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay40 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.8%of scheduled flights

based on 639 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time77%
    Medianon time
    p9040 min
    Cancel0.8%
    Flights639

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline20%
  • Weather5%
  • Air traffic (NAS)15%
  • Late aircraft61%
  • 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 MCI → 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 — 88% on time.

  • Mornings88% on time · p90 15 min · 665 flights
  • Middays77% on time · p90 30 min · 290 flights
  • Afternoons74% on time · p90 40 min · 239 flights
  • Overnights71% on time · p90 75 min · 262 flights
  • Evenings62% on time · p90 80 min · 406 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 74% to 80% on time.

  • Mondays80% on time · p90 30 min · 251 flights
  • Tuesdays79% on time · p90 25 min · 233 flights
  • Thursdays78% on time · p90 35 min · 254 flights
  • Saturdays75% on time · p90 45 min · 350 flights
  • Sundays74% on time · p90 50 min · 297 flights
  • Fridays74% on time · p90 50 min · 254 flights
  • Wednesdays74% on time · p90 45 min · 223 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.