Flights Tampa → Louisville
TPA → SDF
Route overview
The flight route from Tampa to Louisville operates with a high level of punctuality, with 80% of flights arriving on time. Over the course of a year, there are approximately 107 flights along this route, and each flight experiences an average delay of 8.2 minutes. The destination airport in Louisville serves over three million passengers annually.
Your rights on this US flight (DOT)
US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under the US DOT rules, if your flight is cancelled or significantly changed and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Amenities for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
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The Tampa (TPA) → Louisville (SDF) route is operated by Southwest Airlines. Across 139 flights monitored in recent months, 83% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 8 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.00%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 19.1/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Louisville the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Tampa the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Louisville: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Tampa (TPA) to Louisville (SDF) heads north for about 1,172 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 53m.
Departures from Tampa on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 60% of TPA-SDF flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Tampa the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Louisville it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 139 tracked TPA-SDF flights, 83% left on time with an average delay of 8 min and a 0.0% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines (WN) | 73% | 6 min | 3.1% |
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Frequently asked questions about TPA-SDF
On the Tampa (TPA) -> Louisville (SDF) route, on-time performance is 83% with an average delay of 8 minutes, based on 139 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Tampa-Louisville is 0.00% across 139 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: Southwest Airlines.
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US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under US DOT rules, if the airline cancels or significantly changes your flight and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Meals or hotels for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
