TAMPA, Fla. — For a second day in a row, more than 100 flights are delayed at Tampa International Airport.
This comes after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) implemented a delay program for all Florida airports. According to flight tracker FlightAware, as of 11 a.m. Wednesday, 126 flights have been delayed at TPA.
No flight cancellations have been reported at the Tampa airport. TPA advises travelers to check directly with their airlines for the most up-to-date flight updates.
Nationwide, close to 2,000 flights are delayed and more than 600 flights have been canceled, FlightAware reports.
"TRAVEL ALERT: The FAA has implemented a delay program impacting Florida airports, including TPA," the airport tweeted Tuesday morning. "As a result, some flights may be delayed. Please check directly with your airline for the latest flight updates."
Information from TPA's Flight Status shows most delayed flights are from Southwest Airlines, an airline that saw mass cancellations and delays across the country just last year.
In fact, Southwest delayed 45% of their flights on Dec. 26 at TPA.
"They kept changing, sometimes it’d be sooner, sometimes it’d be later," Linda Stevens, a Southwest passenger traveling to Chicago with her husband, said.
Even with the FAA delay program, some experts said weather still played a factor.
"I’d say the biggest reason for delays moving North and South right now is the weather that’s moving in," 10 Tampa Bay's aviation expert Mark Weinkrantz said.
Weinkrantz explained that when there’s bad weather it limits who can be in the sky.
Earlier this month, Southwest Airlines was ordered to pay a $35 million fine as part of a $140 million agreement to settle a federal investigation into a debacle in December 2022 when the airline canceled thousands of flights and stranded more than 2 million travelers over the holidays.
Most of the settlement will go toward compensating future passengers, which the U.S. Department of Transportation considers an incentive for Southwest to avoid repeating last winter's mess.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.