Airport month record

TPAJUN

Tampa International in June 2026

Departures: 5,964
Month: June 2026
National, same month: 74.3%
Carriers: 8

Historical statistics for June 2026, not live status or a forecast for this year’s June. For today’s conditions at TPA, see live FAA status.

TPA in June lands a B+, 3 points better than the national rate of 74.3%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 5,964 flights, of which Delta Air Lines flew 1,168 at 84.9% on time.

Delta Air Lines is the most reliable of the six carriers covered here at 84.9% on time across 1,168 flights.

On time

77.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 5,887 completed departures

Avg delay

73 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.86%

Nationally in June: 1.65%

Whole year

78.1%

TPA across all twelve months

These figures cover 5,964 departures from Tampa International in June 2026. On time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the DOT's threshold, and the national comparison uses every US departure in the same month rather than the whole year.

Against the year

June next to TPA's other months

Against TPA's own year, June ran level with the twelve-month rate of 78.1%, which makes it number six of twelve months, best first. Cancellations were unusually low for TPA in June, at 0.86% against 1.54% across the year.

TPA month by month
Month	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
July 2025	6,770	69.2%	80 min	1.79%	C
August 2025	6,171	74.6%	72 min	0.70%	C+
September 2025	5,502	87.1%	73 min	0.22%	A+
October 2025	6,075	79.2%	68 min	0.51%	B+
November 2025	6,421	81.3%	79 min	2.41%	B
December 2025	6,851	75.4%	74 min	1.36%	B
January 2026	6,432	81.0%	66 min	3.81%	B−
February 2026	6,173	77.1%	61 min	2.25%	B
March 2026	7,679	76.4%	78 min	2.89%	B
April 2026	6,952	82.3%	65 min	0.49%	B+
May 2026	6,471	77.0%	76 min	0.68%	B+
June 2026 (this page)	5,964	77.7%	73 min	0.86%	B+

Departure window

The best time of day to leave TPA in June

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 31 points, against 11 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am1,268 flights92.1%
8am–11am1,146 flights88.3%
11am–2pm895 flights84.7%
2pm–5pm955 flights68.1%
5pm–8pm1,087 flights61.6%
8pm–5am613 flights61.4%

Scale runs 55% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 61.4% on time, against 92.1% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 1,268 flights scheduled in it.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 82.8% on time and Sunday the weakest at 73.4%. 9 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Carrier by carrier

Which airlines ran best at TPA in June

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Delta Air Lines arrives on time 84.9% of the time; Southwest Airlines manages 73.7%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,926 flights means less than a ten-point one.

Carriers at TPA in June 2026
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Southwest Airlines	1,926	73.7%	54 min	0.05%	C+
Delta Air Lines	1,168	84.9%	94 min	0.94%	B+
American Airlines	1,097	75.7%	94 min	2.19%	B
United Airlines	613	78.1%	86 min	0.16%	B+
Frontier Airlines	534	80.1%	58 min	1.12%	B
JetBlue Airways	445	80.4%	91 min	1.35%	B
Envoy Airthin sample	91	74.4%	53 min	1.10%	C
Alaska Airlinesthin sample	90	71.9%	34 min	1.11%	C

Delta leads Southwest by 11 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.

Route by route

Busiest routes out of TPA in June

Routes from TPA in June 2026
Route	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
TPA to ATL · Atlanta	533	83.8%	68 min	1.31%	B
TPA to DEN · Denverthin sample	267	73.3%	50 min	0.00%	C+
TPA to DFW · Dallas-Fort Worththin sample	260	65.6%	136 min	5.38%	C−
TPA to MIA · Miamithin sample	227	78.8%	79 min	0.44%	B+
TPA to BNA · Nashvillethin sample	214	72.3%	54 min	0.47%	C+
TPA to ORD · Chicagothin sample	212	73.3%	91 min	0.94%	C+
TPA to CLT · Charlottethin sample	210	83.1%	48 min	1.43%	B
TPA to EWR · Newarkthin sample	208	80.5%	111 min	0.48%	B+
TPA to PHL · Philadelphiathin sample	206	70.6%	67 min	0.97%	C+
TPA to BOS · Bostonthin sample	204	82.2%	78 min	0.49%	B+
TPA to BWI · Baltimorethin sample	203	81.9%	56 min	0.99%	B+
TPA to JFK · New Yorkthin sample	200	79.5%	109 min	2.00%	B
TPA to LGA · New Yorkthin sample	190	82.6%	80 min	1.05%	B
TPA to DCA · Washingtonthin sample	176	77.2%	89 min	1.14%	B
TPA to SJU · San Juanthin sample	167	74.7%	67 min	0.60%	C+
TPA to DTW · Detroitthin sample	133	84.7%	79 min	1.50%	B
TPA to MDW · Chicagothin sample	128	68.5%	58 min	0.00%	C+
TPA to RDU · Raleighthin sample	114	88.3%	69 min	2.63%	A
TPA to AUS · Austinthin sample	113	73.9%	82 min	0.00%	C+
TPA to DAL · Dallasthin sample	110	69.7%	56 min	0.00%	C+
TPA to MSP · Minneapolisthin sample	110	79.1%	122 min	0.00%	B+
TPA to IAH · Houstonthin sample	107	77.1%	74 min	0.00%	B+
TPA to LAS · Las Vegasthin sample	105	76.0%	53 min	0.95%	B+
TPA to STL · St. Louisthin sample	99	82.8%	46 min	0.00%	B+
TPA to IAD · Washingtonthin sample	95	87.4%	72 min	0.00%	A+

Delay causes

What held TPA up in June

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 95,000 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Late-arriving aircraft
45%
Carrier
30%
National Airspace System
22%
Extreme weather
3%
Security
0%

45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 95,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 15 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 95,244 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.86%, below the national 1.65% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

7.9% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 9.7%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

What to do with this

Flying from TPA in June

For a June trip through TPA: expect 77.7% on time and 0.86% cancelled, going by June 2026. The 5am–8am window was the strongest part of the day.

Tampa International (TPA), the whole year
TPA in July69.2%
TPA in August74.6%
TPA in September87.1%
TPA in October79.2%
TPA in November81.3%
TPA in December75.4%
TPA in January81.0%
TPA in February77.1%
TPA in March76.4%
TPA in April82.3%
TPA in May77.0%

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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