Carrier route record
AATPA→LGA
American Airlines · Tampa to New York
- Flights
- 683
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 25%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on TPA to LGA lands a B, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.3 hours on average. That rests on 683 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, American's TPA to LGA record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 51 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 659 completed flights
Avg delay
136 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.49%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
74.3%
Every carrier on TPA to LGA, 2,764 flights
These figures cover 683 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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
American against every carrier on TPA to LGA
American flew 683 of the 2,764 flights on TPA to LGA, about 25% of it. Its 82.4% on time is 8 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 74.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 82.4% to Southwest at 33.3%. Two 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines (this page) | 683 | 82.4% | 136 min | 2.49% | B |
| Delta Air Lines | 1,724 | 72.8% | 85 min | 3.54% | C− |
| JetBlue Airwaysthin sample | 354 | 66.8% | 79 min | 3.67% | C− |
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 3 | 33.3% | 49 min | 0.00% | F+ |
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Departure window
When American runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 21 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am281 flights91.8%
- 8am–11am40 flights79.5%
- 11am–2pm314 flights76.2%
- 2pm–5pm45 flights71.1%
- 5pm–8pm3 flights—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.8% of the time, against 71.1% for the afternoon window. That is 21 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 314 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on TPA to LGA through the year
July is the worst month at 69.6% on time, 21 points below June, the best at 90.7%. 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 72 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 85.7% on time and Monday the weakest at 76.5%, a spread of 9 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on TPA to LGA runs when it is late
American on TPA to LGA often beats the schedule: 201 of 659 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 116 late arrivals split 41 under half an hour, 25 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 50 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early201 flights30.5%
- Within 15 min342 flights51.9%
- 15–29 min late41 flights6.2%
- 30–59 min late25 flights3.8%
- 1–2 hours late21 flights3.2%
- 2+ hours late29 flights4.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 659 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
15 of 102 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. 29 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on TPA to LGA
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 July 2026, 28 hours 27 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 27 July 2026 | 28 hours 27 minutes | Carrier |
| 31 October 2025 | 21 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 October 2025 | 15 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 May 2026 | 14 hours 12 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 December 2025 | 13 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 16,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
50% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 16,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 12 to one. The split is drawn from 15,736 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 91.8% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 2.49% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.02%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
7.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 2.3 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,010 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 65.9% on time across 683 flights, 17 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 17 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 683 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 American on TPA to LGA
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 683 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 82.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 659 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- TPA to LGA, every carrier
- American on LGA to TPA, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on TPA to LGA72.8%
- JetBlue Airways on TPA to LGA66.8%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Tampa International (TPA) delay statistics
- LaGuardia (LGA) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.