OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Tampa to Detroit

983 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on TPA–DTW arrive on time 80% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate80%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay40 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.7%of scheduled flights

based on 2,271 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-time80%
    Medianon time
    p9040 min
    Cancel0.9%
    Flights1,612
  • Spirit Airlines
    On-time82%
    Medianon time
    p9035 min
    Cancel0.3%
    Flights624
  • Frontier Airlines
    On-time74%
    Medianon time
    p9065 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights35

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline33%
  • Weather4%
  • Air traffic (NAS)23%
  • Late aircraft40%
  • 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 → DTW

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 — 89% on time.

  • Mornings89% on time · p90 15 min · 2,369 flights
  • Middays80% on time · p90 35 min · 1,952 flights
  • Afternoons76% on time · p90 50 min · 1,242 flights
  • Evenings71% on time · p90 60 min · 1,261 flights
  • Overnights71% on time · p90 60 min · 299 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 77% to 86% on time.

  • Tuesdays86% on time · p90 20 min · 921 flights
  • Wednesdays83% on time · p90 30 min · 917 flights
  • Fridays81% on time · p90 35 min · 1,076 flights
  • Thursdays80% on time · p90 45 min · 1,043 flights
  • Mondays79% on time · p90 40 min · 1,056 flights
  • Saturdays78% on time · p90 40 min · 1,029 flights
  • Sundays77% on time · p90 55 min · 1,081 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.