Carrier route record
UACLE→TPA
United Airlines · Cleveland to Tampa
- Flights
- 131
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 13%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with United Airlines.
United on CLE to TPA earns an A+. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 16 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 131 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, United's CLE to TPA record is 16 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 158 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
93.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 130 completed flights
Avg delay
62 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.9%
Every carrier on CLE to TPA, 1,046 flights
These figures cover 131 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 15 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
United against every carrier on CLE to TPA
United flew 131 of the 1,046 flights on CLE to TPA, about 13% of it. Its 93.1% on time is 13 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 79.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 93.1% to Frontier at 77.9%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines (this page)thin sample | 131 | 93.1% | 62 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 5 | 80.0% | 38 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Frontier Airlines | 910 | 77.9% | 78 min | 1.65% | B |
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Departure window
When United runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 131 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split United's CLE to TPA record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 93.1% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
United on CLE to TPA through the year
- Oct–Dec 202512 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202672 flights88.7%
- Apr–Jun 202647 flights97.9%
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 93.1% on time across 131 flights.
Split by quarter, United on CLE to TPA logged 12 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 72 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 47 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 93.1% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late United on CLE to TPA runs when it is late
United on CLE to TPA often beats the schedule: 65 of 130 completed flights, 50%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 5 of the 9 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 4 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early65 flights50.0%
- Within 15 min56 flights43.1%
- 15–29 min late5 flights3.8%
- 30–59 min late0 flights0.0%
- 1–2 hours late3 flights2.3%
- 2+ hours late1 flights0.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 130 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 8 of 130 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for United on CLE to TPA
The latest arrival of the period was on 23 February 2026, 3 hours 1 minute behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. Three of the five worst days fell in January 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 23 February 2026 | 3 hours 1 minute | Extreme weather |
| 31 January 2026 | 1 hour 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 January 2026 | 1 hour 26 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 11 January 2026 | 1 hour 22 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 6 April 2026 | 28 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
National Airspace System accounts for 50% of the 560 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%National Airspace System
- 32%Extreme weather
- 19%Carrier
Extreme weather accounts for 32% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 5.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 560 reported delay minutes.
50% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 278 minutes out of 560, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.1% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The 927 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 84.0% on time across 131 flights, 9 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 9 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 131 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking United on CLE to TPA
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 131 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 93.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 130 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLE to TPA, every carrier
- United on TPA to CLE, the return leg
- Frontier Airlines on CLE to TPA77.9%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- Cleveland Hopkins International (CLE) delay statistics
- Tampa International (TPA) delay statistics
- How to read this site: grades, sample sizes, and honest caveats
- Late aircraft, weather, or the airline: what actually causes US flight delays
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.