The sector is held by Breeze Airways, JetBlue Airways, Libyan Airlines, NetJets Aviation, Southwest Airlines and Vuela El Salvador.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
FLL Fort Lauderdale to TPA Tampa
Fort Lauderdale Hollywood, the United States, to Tampa International, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 6.6 times a day
- Great circle
- 317 km
- Block, estimated
- 58 min
- Door to door
- 7h 43m
What FLL to TPA looks like
The FLL to TPA sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Fort Lauderdale FLL to Tampa TPA is a short sector of 317 km by great circle, flown nonstop 6.6 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 317 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 58 min.
Fort Lauderdale FLL is a major hub in the network held here, 168 scheduled destinations and 340.6 departures a day. Tampa TPA has 130 destinations and 263.7 departures a day.
Fort Lauderdale and Tampa keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
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 FLL to TPA from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLL to TPA | 6.57 | 46 | Breeze Airways, JetBlue Airways, Libyan Airlines, NetJets Aviation, Southwest Airlines, Vuela El Salvador |
| TPA to FLL | 6.43 | 45 | Breeze Airways, JetBlue Airways, NetJets Aviation, Southwest Airlines, Vuela El Salvador |
6 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 6.6 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 91 departures a week on FLL 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 58 min block time on FLL 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 FLL | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At FLL before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| FLL to TPA in the air, estimated | 58 min | 5h 28m |
| Formalities at TPA | 90 min | 6h 58m |
| Delivery run in Tampa | 45 min | 7h 43m |
| Door to door | 463 min | 7h 43m |
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 FLL to TPA is 7h 43m.
A courier who leaves Fort Lauderdale at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tampa at about 09:58 local and at the door by 12:13 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tampa, the last useful departure from Fort Lauderdale is around 14:47 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. 47 of them join FLL to TPA.
| Connecting at | FLL to hub, flights a day | Hub to TPA, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orlando MCO | 5 | 1.29 | 416 | 2h 51m |
| Miami MIA | 2.86 | 9.57 | 363 | 3h 02m |
| Nassau NAS | 10 | 0.71 | 894 | 3h 19m |
| Cancun CUN | 2.29 | 1 | 1,773 | 4h 16m |
| Greenville GSP | 1.14 | 1 | 1,771 | 4h 25m |
| New Orleans MSY | 3.14 | 2.71 | 1,867 | 4h 32m |
With 6.6 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
47 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 416 km against the 317 km nonstop track and takes about 2h 51m 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 53m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Miami MIA at 3h 02m and Nassau NAS at 3h 19m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
The two ends are only 317 km apart in a straight line. Allowing a road track a quarter longer than that and eighty kilometres an hour, a car covers it in about 4h 57m, so a courier who misses the flight drives rather than connects, and on a short deadline the road is often the plan from the start.
If nothing suitable leaves Fort Lauderdale, Miami MIA is 34 km away by great circle and carries 230 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.
Plan Fort Lauderdale 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 FLL 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.
More pairs through FLL and TPA: Atlanta to Fort Lauderdale, Detroit to Fort Lauderdale, Boston to Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale to Houston, Charlotte to Fort Lauderdale, Bogota to Fort Lauderdale, New York to Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale to Newark.