Flight number record
AA 1196
American Airlines · Newark to Miami
- Route
- EWR → MIA
- Departs
- 05:40
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1196, check with American Airlines.
AA 1196 earns an A−. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 17 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 22 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 1196's record is 17 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 166 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
93.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 346 completed flights
Avg delay
59 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.11%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
1.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 22 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Schedule
When AA 1196 flies
AA 1196 flies EWR to MIA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:40, used on 63 of 365 flights, with 05:32 (44 flights) and 05:30 (42 flights) next.
- Departs 05:4063 flights17.3%
- Departs 05:3244 flights12.1%
- Departs 05:3042 flights11.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 05:40 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 1196 runs 5 points better at 93.9%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
AA 1196 next to EWR to MIA
Every carrier on EWR to MIA combined arrived on time 77.5% of the time across 3,914 flights, so AA 1196 is 16 points ahead of it. American flew 1,429 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.3% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 19 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1196 | 365 | 93.9% | 59 min | 4.11% | A− |
| All American Airlines on EWR–MIA | 1,429 | 81.3% | 102 min | 3.29% | B− |
| All carriers on EWR–MIA | 3,914 | 77.5% | 82 min | 2.96% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1196 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 1196 held fairly steady: 94.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 92.6% in Jan–Mar 2026, 95.6% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 93.0% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 3 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights94.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights92.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights95.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights93.0%
Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1196 ranged from 89.6% on Sunday to 98.0% on Friday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1196 runs when it is late
AA 1196 often beats the schedule: 228 of 346 completed flights, 66%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 21 late arrivals split 10 under half an hour, 7 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 4 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early228 flights65.9%
- Within 15 min97 flights28.0%
- 15–29 min late10 flights2.9%
- 30–59 min late7 flights2.0%
- 1–2 hours late1 flights0.3%
- 2+ hours late3 flights0.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 346 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 12 of 346 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1196
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 December 2025, 4 hours 8 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The five worst days are spread across December, May, November, March and January, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 14 December 2025 | 4 hours 8 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 21 May 2026 | 3 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 November 2025 | 2 hours 37 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 18 March 2026 | 1 hour 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 January 2026 | 56 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 1196 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 1,230 reported delay minutes.
- 32%National Airspace System
- 26%Extreme weather
- 26%Carrier
- 16%Late-arriving aircraft
Extreme weather accounts for 26% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 4.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 1,230 delay minutes reported on AA 1196.
Cancellations run at 4.11%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 1.2% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The 1,085 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
Every one of the 365 flights under AA 1196 in the data flew EWR to MIA. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 365 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking AA 1196
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 1196: 4.11% of its 365 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to MIA, every carrier and departure
- MIA to EWR, the return direction
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- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- Miami International (MIA) delay statistics
- American Airlines on-time record
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A flight number here means American Airlines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.