The sector is held by Southwest Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
TPA Tampa to DAL Dallas
Tampa International, the United States, to Dallas Love Field, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3.4 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,474 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 23m
- Door to door
- 9h 08m
What TPA to DAL looks like
The TPA to DAL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Tampa TPA to Dallas DAL is a medium haul sector of 1,474 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3.4 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,474 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 23m.
Tampa TPA is a large airport in the network held here, 130 scheduled destinations and 263.7 departures a day. Dallas DAL has 190 destinations and 272.1 departures a day.
Dallas is one hour behind of Tampa 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 TPA to DAL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| TPA to DAL | 3.43 | 24 | Southwest Airlines |
| DAL to TPA | 3.14 | 22 | Southwest Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, Southwest Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At 3.4 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 46 departures a week on TPA to DAL, 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 2h 23m block time on TPA to DAL. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to TPA | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At TPA before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| TPA to DAL in the air, estimated | 143 min | 6h 53m |
| Formalities at DAL | 90 min | 8h 23m |
| Delivery run in Dallas | 45 min | 9h 08m |
| Door to door | 548 min | 9h 08m |
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 TPA to DAL is 9h 08m.
A courier who leaves Tampa at 09:00 local is on the ground in Dallas at about 10:23 local and at the door by 12:38 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Dallas, the last useful departure from Tampa is around 14:22 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. 39 of them join TPA to DAL.
| Connecting at | TPA to hub, flights a day | Hub to DAL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Orleans MSY | 2.29 | 6.29 | 1,485 | 4h 11m |
| Birmingham BHM | 1.57 | 3.43 | 1,682 | 4h 17m |
| Houston HOU | 3.29 | 19.57 | 1,641 | 4h 25m |
| Dallas DFW | 9.14 | 1.5 | 1,511 | 4h 26m |
| Orlando MCO | 1.43 | 6.86 | 1,694 | 4h 26m |
| Atlanta ATL | 19.43 | 9.57 | 1,813 | 4h 57m |
With 3.4 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.
39 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is New Orleans MSY, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through MSY the routing covers 1,485 km against the 1,474 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 11m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 48m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Birmingham BHM at 4h 17m and Houston HOU at 4h 25m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
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.
If nothing suitable leaves Dallas, Dallas DFW is 18 km away by great circle and carries 287 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Tampa to Dallas 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 TPA to DAL 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.
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