Flight number record

AA 1196

American Airlines · Newark to Miami

Route: EWR → MIA
Departs: 05:40
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 20 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 1196's record is 17 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 169 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

94.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 345 completed flights

Avg delay

73 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.11%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

1.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 20 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.

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 06:00 (48 flights) and 05:32 (44 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 05:4063 flights17.3%
Departs 06:0048 flights13.2%
Departs 05:3244 flights12.1%

Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

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 94.5%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

AA 1196 next to EWR to MIA

Every carrier on EWR to MIA combined arrived on time 77.4% of the time across 3,985 flights, so AA 1196 is 17 points ahead of it. American flew 1,425 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.5% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 20 points.

AA 1196 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 1196	365	94.5%	73 min	4.11%	A−
All American Airlines on EWR–MIA	1,425	80.5%	84 min	2.95%	B
All carriers on EWR–MIA	3,985	77.4%	76 min	2.63%	B
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 1196 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 1196 held fairly steady: 95.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 94.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 92.6% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 95.6% in Apr–Jun 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 202592 flights95.3%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights94.4%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights92.6%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights95.6%

Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 1196 ranged from 89.8% 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.

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 1,387 reported delay minutes.

National Airspace System
32%
Carrier
31%
Extreme weather
23%
Late-arriving aircraft
14%

Extreme weather accounts for 23% 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 3.7 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 1,387 delay minutes reported on AA 1196.

Cancellations run at 4.11%, against 1.81% 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 1.4% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

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 a little over an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

Where to go next

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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

Key figures