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Southwest Airlines MDW to TPA on-time performance

Southwest Airlines nonstop flights from Chicago to Tampa · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
78%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
1.4%
21 flights
Avg arrival delay
13 min
53 min when late
Rank on route
#2 of 2
route average 78% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on MDW to TPA arrived on time 78% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 1.4% were cancelled, and 6% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #2 of 2 airlines on this route, which averaged 78% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (44%).

On-time trend by month

50%75%100%July 2025: 60.7% on time, 2.6% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 78.4% on time, 0.8% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 85.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 82.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 83.1% on time, 4.8% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 71.1% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 78.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 88.6% on time, 0.9% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 70.5% on time, 3.3% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 82.2% on time, 2.3% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 77.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 70.2% on time, 0.8% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 69.9% on time, 2.2% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft44%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)36%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion18%
  • Extreme weather1%
  • Security1%

Other airlines on MDW to TPA

1,536 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 21 cancelled, 4 diverted.

Data: U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 (12 months). Latest month published by BTS: July 2026. How we calculate this.