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Route Reliability

Tampa → Birmingham

TPA–BHM · 459 miles · Tampa International Airport to Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport

89
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
82%
Arrive within 15 minutes
3 min
Average arrival delay
0.2%
Cancelled
442
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 82% of the time across 442 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

TPA–BHM flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 100% of the time, versus 73% between 3–6 PM.

Friday is doing you no favors.

TPA–BHM flights arrived on time 91% of the time on Tuesdays and just 75% on Fridays. That gap is worth planning around.

It basically never cancels.

Out of 442 scheduled flights, only 0.2% were cancelled.

Ticking up lately.

TPA–BHM flights arrived on time 85% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 79% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon83%(57 flights)
  • Tue91%(55 flights)
  • Wed87%(53 flights)
  • Thu84%(55 flights)
  • Fri75%(60 flights)
  • Sat79%(66 flights)
  • Sun79%(95 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM100%(23 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM89%(175 flights)
  • 12–3 PM77%(98 flights)
  • 3–6 PM73%(124 flights)
  • 6–9 PM76%(21 flights)
On-time trend by month
91%
May

Jun 85% → May 91% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202585%39
July 202585%39
August 202586%35
September 202585%34
October 202580%35
November 202575%44
December 202577%44
January 202677%34
February 202682%28
March 202677%39
April 202686%35
May 202691%35

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Based on 442 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.