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Route Reliability

San Antonio → Tampa

SAT–TPA · 972 miles · San Antonio International Airport to Tampa International Airport

85
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
80%
Arrive within 15 minutes
7 min
Average arrival delay
0.5%
Cancelled
407
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • Southwest Airlines81% on time · 380 flights
  • Spirit Airlines68% 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 flights do better here.

SAT–TPA flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 98% of the time, versus 50% between 3–6 PM.

Thursday is the weak spot.

SAT–TPA flights arrived on time 88% of the time on Tuesdays. On Thursdays: 74%.

Recent months have been rougher.

SAT–TPA flights arrived on time 68% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 87% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon80%(51 flights)
  • Tue88%(58 flights)
  • Wed75%(52 flights)
  • Thu74%(62 flights)
  • Fri83%(52 flights)
  • Sat86%(57 flights)
  • Sun76%(72 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM94%(16 flights)
  • 6–9 AM98%(42 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM89%(165 flights)
  • 12–3 PM79%(103 flights)
  • 3–6 PM50%(46 flights)
  • 6–9 PM52%(31 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM—(1 flights)
On-time trend by month
71%
May

Jun 69% → May 71% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202569%48
July 202573%44
August 202585%34
September 202597%30
October 202590%31
November 202591%33
December 202585%33
January 202691%32
February 202686%28
March 202660%30
April 202673%30
May 202671%31

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Based on 407 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.