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Route Reliability

Kansas City → Tampa

MCI–TPA · 1,048 miles · Kansas City International Airport to Tampa International Airport

84
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
78%
Arrive within 15 minutes
8 min
Average arrival delay
0.3%
Cancelled
672
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • Southwest Airlines78% on time · 645 flights
  • Frontier Airlines82% on time · 27 flights

Too little history on this route to call a winner. We rank airlines only after 100 flights each.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

MCI–TPA flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 95% of the time, versus 61% between 6–9 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

MCI–TPA flights arrived on time 83% of the time on Fridays. On Sundays: 74%.

It basically never cancels.

Out of 672 scheduled flights, only 0.3% were cancelled.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon78%(91 flights)
  • Tue75%(80 flights)
  • Wed80%(78 flights)
  • Thu81%(91 flights)
  • Fri83%(92 flights)
  • Sat77%(132 flights)
  • Sun74%(104 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM95%(116 flights)
  • 6–9 AM89%(141 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM75%(12 flights)
  • 12–3 PM81%(77 flights)
  • 3–6 PM80%(94 flights)
  • 6–9 PM61%(209 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM68%(19 flights)
On-time trend by month
74%
May

Jun 82% → May 74% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202582%60
July 202564%61
August 202567%39
September 202571%34
October 202587%63
November 202584%57
December 202568%53
January 202688%49
February 202684%49
March 202681%72
April 202683%65
May 202674%66

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Based on 672 historical flights, because apparently we checked. Historical flight data: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 2025 – May 2026. Data through May 2026. How we calculate this.