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Route Reliability

Louisville → Tampa

SDF–TPA · 727 miles · Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport to Tampa International Airport

82
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
83%
Arrive within 15 minutes
3 min
Average arrival delay
2.1%
Cancelled
437
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • Southwest Airlines84% on time · 416 flights
  • Spirit Airlines70% on time · 21 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.

SDF–TPA flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 100% of the time, versus 57% between 6–9 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

SDF–TPA flights arrived on time 92% of the time on Saturdays and just 76% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Slipping a little lately.

SDF–TPA flights arrived on time 83% 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
  • Mon81%(57 flights)
  • Tue90%(52 flights)
  • Wed89%(56 flights)
  • Thu77%(51 flights)
  • Fri77%(56 flights)
  • Sat92%(77 flights)
  • Sun76%(78 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM—(5 flights)
  • 6–9 AM100%(44 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM87%(68 flights)
  • 12–3 PM88%(178 flights)
  • 3–6 PM73%(97 flights)
  • 6–9 PM57%(35 flights)
On-time trend by month
89%
May

Jun 80% → May 89% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202580%55
July 202577%43
August 202578%32
September 202593%30
October 202585%39
November 202582%27
December 202577%31
January 202690%29
February 202693%28
March 202675%40
April 202687%37
May 202689%36

Same trip, other airports

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Based on 437 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.