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Route Reliability

Providence → Tampa

PVDTPA · 1,136 miles · Rhode Island T. F. Green International Airport to Tampa International Airport

83
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
79%
Arrive within 15 minutes
7 min
Average arrival delay
0.6%
Cancelled
518
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Who flies it best

Ranked by on-time arrivals. Historical results, not predictions.

  1. 1.Southwest Airlines82%353 flights
  2. 2.JetBlue Airways73%165 flights

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

PVD–TPA flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 96% of the time, versus 68% between 3–6 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

PVD–TPA flights arrived on time 87% of the time on Thursdays and just 64% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Southwest Airlines runs this route best.

Southwest Airlines arrived on time 82% of the time on this route; JetBlue Airways managed 73%.

Ticking up lately.

PVD–TPA flights arrived on time 89% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 83% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon78%(78 flights)
  • Tue83%(65 flights)
  • Wed79%(62 flights)
  • Thu87%(74 flights)
  • Fri79%(77 flights)
  • Sat86%(77 flights)
  • Sun64%(80 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM96%(129 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM89%(54 flights)
  • 12–3 PM73%(155 flights)
  • 3–6 PM68%(163 flights)
  • 6–9 PM92%(12 flights)
On-time trend by month
100%
May

Jun 71% → May 100% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202571%51
July 202566%61
August 202582%61
September 202592%52
October 202582%60
November 202567%64
December 202573%41
January 202687%15
February 202691%21
March 202679%28
April 202690%29
May 2026100%30

Based on 518 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.