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Route Reliability

St. Louis → Tampa

STL–TPA · 869 miles · St. Louis Lambert International Airport to Tampa International Airport

83
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
80%
Arrive within 15 minutes
7 min
Average arrival delay
0.7%
Cancelled
1,225
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • Southwest Airlines80% on time · 1,196 flights
  • Frontier Airlines70% on time · 29 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.

STL–TPA flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 96% of the time, versus 67% between 3–6 PM.

Skip Thursday if you can.

STL–TPA flights arrived on time 88% of the time on Wednesdays. On Thursdays: 76%.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon80%(167 flights)
  • Tue83%(164 flights)
  • Wed88%(160 flights)
  • Thu76%(165 flights)
  • Fri78%(173 flights)
  • Sat78%(196 flights)
  • Sun79%(185 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM96%(106 flights)
  • 6–9 AM91%(269 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM83%(145 flights)
  • 12–3 PM82%(145 flights)
  • 3–6 PM67%(232 flights)
  • 6–9 PM72%(295 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM72%(18 flights)
On-time trend by month
83%
May

Jun 73% → May 83% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202573%97
July 202569%98
August 202575%93
September 202586%90
October 202580%95
November 202580%96
December 202581%106
January 202685%101
February 202680%90
March 202682%120
April 202684%110
May 202683%114

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Based on 1,225 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.