OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Tampa to Dallas

917 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on TPA–DAL 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)
Cancelled1.5%of scheduled flights

based on 1,296 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
    Cancel1.5%
    Flights1,296

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline25%
  • Weather3%
  • Air traffic (NAS)19%
  • Late aircraft53%
  • 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 TPA → DAL

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 — 90% on time.

  • Mornings90% on time · p90 10 min · 1,323 flights
  • Middays77% on time · p90 30 min · 845 flights
  • Afternoons68% on time · p90 50 min · 592 flights
  • Evenings65% on time · p90 60 min · 637 flights
  • Overnights58% on time · p90 80 min · 652 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 69% to 80% on time.

  • Fridays80% on time · p90 30 min · 594 flights
  • Tuesdays79% on time · p90 30 min · 555 flights
  • Mondays76% on time · p90 45 min · 597 flights
  • Thursdays75% on time · p90 45 min · 585 flights
  • Wednesdays74% on time · p90 40 min · 550 flights
  • Saturdays72% on time · p90 50 min · 567 flights
  • Sundays69% on time · p90 55 min · 601 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.