Tampa (TPA) to New York (NYC): 1,006 miles (1,619 km) great-circle, about 2h 30m nonstop by our estimate. Cheapest fare observed: $151 round-trip on Spirit, with 1 stop, departing May 27, 2026.
$151 round-trip, Spirit NK403, departing 2026-05-27 at 08:25, returning 2026-05-29. The recorded itinerary left on a Wednesday, returning on a Friday 2 nights later; the fare was observed 32 days before departure. "Book this flight" opens Kiwi.com with the same airline and dates.
At $151, it ranked 7th of the 30 round-trip fares we recorded from TPA (median $242). That is 15.0 cents per great-circle mile (round-trip price over one-way distance), below the TPA median of 17.9 cents across 30 round-trip routes.
Routes from TPA of similar length: Chicago (1,014 mi) at $178 and Cleveland (929 mi) at $118.
Spirit had the cheapest fare on 3 of 30 TPA routes. It is the 18th longest of the 30 routes we track from TPA.
Of 50 departure airports with a fare to New York, Tampa (TPA) ranked 10th at $151. Lowest: $95 from Miami (MIA); highest: $1609 from Auckland (AKL); 18 nonstop. Cheapest-fare airlines (routes): Spirit (8), Frontier (7), Alaska Airlines (3), JetBlue (3), Southwest (3) and Air Canada (2), plus 20 more.
Travelpayouts fares (cheapest per route, observed April 25, 2026); OurAirports coordinates and elevations; IANA zones America/New_York, America/New_York; flight time is our estimate.