Buffalo to Tampa nonstop
Yes: Southwest and Frontier fly direct from Buffalo (BUF) to Tampa (TPA) about 12 times a week, year-round.
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- Distance and flight time
- 1,053 miles nonstop, about 2 hr 40 min gate to gate. Flight time is an estimate from the great-circle distance; the filings carry distance, not scheduled elapsed time.
- Seasonality
- Flew every month of the last year: busiest in February 2026 (18 flights a week), quietest in July 2026 (7 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 15 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 14 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 14 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 12 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 15 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 18 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 17 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 17 flights a week
- May 2026: 15 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 8 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 7 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 12 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- Southwest 90%, Frontier 10% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 2,333 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $75 and $225 one way, median $125. The survey runs a couple of quarters behind, so read it as the shape of the route's pricing rather than today's quote.
- Jul to Sep (Q3 2024): median $150 one way, middle half $100 to $250, 1,607 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $150 one way, middle half $75 to $250, 1,799 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $150 one way, middle half $75 to $225, 2,418 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $125 one way, middle half $75 to $225, 2,333 tickets
Apr to Jun trips were the cheapest (median $125 one way) and Jul to Sep, Oct to Dec and Jan to Mar trips cost the most (median $150), in the DOT ticket survey for Q3 2024 to Q2 2025. Bars show the middle half of one-way fares; the mark is the median.
Flying the other way? Tampa to Buffalo nonstop.
Other airports near Buffalo with nonstops to Tampa
Within about 100 miles of Buffalo Niagara International Airport
Also nonstop from Buffalo (BUF)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Chicago (ORD) about 6 times a day
- Boston (BOS) about 5 times a day
- Orlando (MCO) about 5 times a day
- Atlanta (ATL) about 5 times a day
- Baltimore (BWI) about 4 times a day
- Charlotte (CLT) about 4 times a day
- Detroit (DTW) about 4 times a day
- New York (JFK) about 4 times a day
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