TPA Tampa

How deep the TPA board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from TPA. This reads the same 130 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 67of the 130 destinations are flown by one airline
• 57destinations run less than once a day
• 21destinations have four or more departures a day
• 25.4%of the destinations name Southwest Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at TPA

64 airlines appear on the TPA board and they do not hold it evenly. Southwest Airlines is on 33 of the 130 destinations, 25.4 per cent of them, and on 9 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 121.4 of the 263.7 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is Breeze Airways on 31 destinations. 35 of the 64 airlines at TPA appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

That is a middling concentration at TPA: one airline on 25.4 per cent of the destinations and the other 74.6 per cent spread across 63 airlines. A cancellation inside the Southwest Airlines network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 97 destinations Southwest Airlines does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the TPA board is daily

Of the 130 destinations, 73 are flown at least once a day and 57 are not, 21 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the TPA board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: TPA to Santa Clara (SNU) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 54 of the 263.7 departures a day, 20.5 per cent of the whole board. The other 125 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at TPA usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Albany ALB	the United States	Southwest Airlines	1	1,821	plan this
Calgary YYC	Canada	WestJet	1	3,678	plan this
Chicago/Rockford RFD	the United States	United Airlines	1	1,689	plan this
Chicago/Romeoville LOT	the United States	Aviation Advisor	1	1,598	plan this
Columbia CAE	the United States	JSL	1	677	plan this
Dallas ADS	the United States	Flexjet	1	1,477	plan this
Fort Worth FTW	the United States	AirShare LLC	1	1,519	plan this
Ft. Pierce FPR	the United States	Shuttle America	1	220	plan this
Gainesville GNV	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	192	plan this
Holguín HOG	Cuba	World Atlantic Airlines	1	1,017	plan this

The ten destinations out of TPA where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 30 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from TPA

The desk holds the return direction for 58 of the 130 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On two of them the return into TPA runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are London (LHR) at 1.9 out a day against 1.1 back and Nassau (NAS) at 1 out a day against 0.71 back.

It runs the other way as well: New York (JFK) files 7.4 a day back into TPA against 4 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at TPA

TPA keeps America/New_York time, eight hours behind Dubai in summer and nine hours behind in winter, because the clock here moves and the Gulf clock does not.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 01:00 at TPA, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for an hour. That is a narrow window for a signature, a customs query or an authority to release, and it is the reason a consignment for TPA is briefed the day before rather than on the morning it flies.

The night at TPA

5 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from TPA that lands inside it leaves around 09:28, on a modelled block of 9h 02m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from TPA that lands inside it leaves around 07:11, on a modelled block of 9h 49m. Into London (LGW) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from TPA that lands inside it leaves around 09:26, on a modelled block of 9h 04m. Those three departure times out of TPA are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where TPA turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the United States country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

The site publishes 20 airport pair pages that start or end at TPA, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Tampa to Nashville (BNA), Tampa to Boston (BOS) and Tampa to Miami (MIA).

16 courier postings name TPA as the airport a courier here flies from: Tampa, Orlando and St. Petersburg.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with TPA already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 130 destinations above.