OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Phoenix to Tampa

1,788 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on PHX–TPA arrive on time 76% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate76%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay45 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.3%of scheduled flights

based on 1,240 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • American Airlinesbest
    On-time79%
    Medianon time
    p9045 min
    Cancel0.6%
    Flights684
  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time72%
    Medianon time
    p9045 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights556

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline37%
  • Weather0%
  • Air traffic (NAS)12%
  • Late aircraft50%
  • 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 PHX → TPA

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

Best time of day

On-time rates are fairly even by time of day on this route — ranging from 66% to 81% on time.

  • Overnights81% on time · p90 55 min · 124 flights · limited
  • Mornings80% on time · p90 30 min · 1,146 flights
  • Middays73% on time · p90 55 min · 583 flights
  • Afternoons70% on time · p90 50 min · 1,108 flights
  • Evenings66% on time · p90 50 min · 436 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 70% to 79% on time.

  • Tuesdays79% on time · p90 35 min · 454 flights
  • Mondays76% on time · p90 45 min · 501 flights
  • Saturdays75% on time · p90 40 min · 498 flights
  • Fridays74% on time · p90 45 min · 493 flights
  • Sundays71% on time · p90 65 min · 504 flights
  • Thursdays70% on time · p90 45 min · 495 flights
  • Wednesdays70% on time · p90 40 min · 453 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.