The sector is held by Libyan Airlines, Southwest Airlines and Breeze Airways.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BHM Birmingham to TPA Tampa
Birmingham -Shuttlesworth, the United States, to Tampa International, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 740 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 35m
- Door to door
- 8h 20m
What BHM to TPA looks like
The BHM to TPA sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Birmingham BHM to Tampa TPA is a short sector of 740 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 740 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 35m.
Birmingham BHM is a large airport in the network held here, 84 scheduled destinations and 85.8 departures a day. Tampa TPA has 130 destinations and 263.7 departures a day.
Tampa carries about 3.1 times the departures of Birmingham, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Tampa is one hour ahead of Birmingham all year.
The pair sits inside the Americas, a corridor where the site already publishes 13 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on BHM to TPA from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BHM to TPA | 1.43 | 10 | Libyan Airlines, Southwest Airlines |
| TPA to BHM | 1.57 | 11 | Breeze Airways, Libyan Airlines, Southwest Airlines |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
Between them the two directions put about 21 departures a week on BHM to TPA, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 1h 35m block time on BHM to TPA. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to BHM | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At BHM before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| BHM to TPA in the air, estimated | 95 min | 6h 05m |
| Formalities at TPA | 90 min | 7h 35m |
| Delivery run in Tampa | 45 min | 8h 20m |
| Door to door | 500 min | 8h 20m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for BHM to TPA is 8h 20m.
A courier who leaves Birmingham at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tampa at about 11:35 local and at the door by 13:50 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tampa, the last useful departure from Birmingham is around 13:10 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 26 of them join BHM to TPA.
| Connecting at | BHM to hub, flights a day | Hub to TPA, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orlando MCO | 2 | 1.29 | 901 | 3h 34m |
| Atlanta ATL | 9.57 | 19.29 | 871 | 3h 47m |
| Nashville BNA | 3.71 | 7.57 | 1,271 | 4h 11m |
| Miami MIA | 2.14 | 9.57 | 1,394 | 4h 21m |
| Charlotte CLT | 7.71 | 7.86 | 1,383 | 4h 23m |
| Raleigh RDU | 0.57 | 4.86 | 1,719 | 4h 36m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at BHM in the afternoon actually flies on.
26 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Orlando MCO, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through MCO the routing covers 901 km against the 740 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 34m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 59m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Atlanta ATL at 3h 47m and Nashville BNA at 4h 11m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Birmingham, Atlanta ATL is 216 km away by great circle and carries 253 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Tampa, Orlando MCO is 130 km away by great circle and carries 177 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through BHM or TPA. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Mercedes-Benz, Tuscaloosa, AlabamaSUV assembly for world markets. The same transatlantic pattern as BMW Spartanburg. Logistics through Birmingham BHM.
Plan Birmingham to Tampa yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for BHM to TPA in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The BHM airport entry
- The TPA airport entry
- Hand carry into the United States
- The route calculator
More pairs through BHM and TPA: Atlanta to Birmingham, Chicago to Birmingham, Birmingham to Detroit, Houston to Birmingham, Birmingham to Charlotte, Birmingham to Miami, Birmingham to Dallas, Birmingham to Denver.