Route reliability record
MIA→TPA
Miami to Tampa
- Flights
- 2,927
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 204 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 2,927 MIA to TPA flights, of which Envoy Air flew 393 at 80.9% on time.
Best time to fly MIA to TPA: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 92.3% of the time and Wednesday flights 79.6%, against 71.5% for the route overall.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so this route runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 58 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,891 completed flights
Avg delay
77 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.06%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
80.9% on time across 393 flights
These figures cover 2,927 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on MIA to TPA
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 80.9% of the time; American Airlines manages 70.1%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 2,518 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 393 | 80.9% | 53 min | 3.56% | B− |
| American Airlines | 2,518 | 70.1% | 80 min | 0.68% | C+ |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 16 | 62.5% | 43 min | 0.00% | D+ |
Envoy Air cancels 3.6% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
Flight by flight
Flights on MIA to TPA
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Miami to Tampa
Every airline on this route and on the routes between nearby airports, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time. 1 of the top 3 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. MIA → TPAMiami to Tampa | Envoy Air | 78.0% | 80.9% | 3.56% | 2pm–5pm, Tue | — |
| 2. MIA → TPAMiami to Tampa | American Airlines | 69.6% | 70.1% | 0.68% | 5am–8am, Wed | AA 1921 20:53 |
| 3. FLL → TPAFort Lauderdale to Tampa | Spirit Airlines | 66.8% | 68.8% | 2.89% | 5am–8am, Tue | — |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 29 points, against 11 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am209 flights92.3%
- 8am–11am371 flights88.6%
- 11am–2pm334 flights71.7%
- 2pm–5pm435 flights75.8%
- 5pm–8pm778 flights63.7%
- 8pm–5am800 flights63.1%
Scale runs 55% to 100%.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 63.1% on time, against 92.3% 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 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 800 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter MIA to TPA by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On MIA to TPA, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 92.3% on time and the worst is 8pm–5am at 63.1%, a wide gap of 29.2 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am92.3%
- 8–11am88.6%
- 11am–2pm71.7%
- 2–5pm75.8%
- 5–8pm63.7%
- 8pm–5am63.1%
best all US flightsScale 55% to 95%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 18 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
July is the worst month at 62.4% on time, 18 points below September, the best at 80.1%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. December was the busiest month here, with 298 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 79.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 62.3%, a spread of 17 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 64,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
53% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 64,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 to one. The split is drawn from 63,864 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 92.3% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.06% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.17%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
12.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
At 204 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 78.6% on time across 2,924 flights, 7 points above 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 7 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 2,927 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in TPA after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. September runs 80.1% on time and July 62.4%, a swing of 18 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 2,891 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
MIA to TPA questions
How often is MIA to TPA delayed?
Roughly one flight in four arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 28.5% of the 2,927 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by a little over an hour on average.
Which airline is most reliable on MIA to TPA?
Envoy Air leads at 80.9% on time across 393 flights. American Airlines is at the other end on 70.1%, a gap of 11 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on MIA to TPA?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 92.3% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 63.1%, 29 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are July delays on MIA to TPA?
July is the weakest month at 62.4% on time, compared with 80.1% in September. Across the year that is 18 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- TPA to MIA — the return legseparate record
- Miami International (MIA) delay statistics
- Tampa International (TPA) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on MIA to TPA80.9%
- American Airlines on MIA to TPA70.1%
- MIA to ATL, a related route74.2%
- ATL to TPA, a related route73.0%
- MIA to LGA, a related route67.4%
- Envoy Air on-time record80.9%
- American Airlines on-time record70.1%
- Republic Airways on-time record62.5%
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. MIA to TPA and TPA to MIA are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.