Flight number record
AA 2017
American Airlines · New York to Miami
- Route
- JFK → MIA
- Departs
- 07:30
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2017, check with American Airlines.
AA 2017 earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.1 hours. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2017's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 84 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 357 completed flights
Avg delay
125 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.19%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
4.8%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 2017 flies
AA 2017 flies JFK to MIA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:30, used on 80 of 365 flights, with 07:29 (55 flights) and 07:40 (46 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 07:3080 flights21.9%
- Departs 07:2955 flights15.1%
- Departs 07:4046 flights12.6%
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 07:30 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 2017 runs 3 points worse at 86.0%. 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 2017 next to JFK to MIA
Every carrier on JFK to MIA combined arrived on time 77.3% of the time across 4,553 flights, so AA 2017 is 9 points ahead of it. American flew 2,659 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.8% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 12 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2017 | 365 | 86.0% | 125 min | 2.19% | A |
| All American Airlines on JFK–MIA | 2,659 | 77.8% | 103 min | 2.71% | B |
| All carriers on JFK–MIA | 4,553 | 77.3% | 93 min | 2.88% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 2017 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 2017 held fairly steady: 83.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 89.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 82.6% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 88.9% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights83.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights89.0%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights82.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights88.9%
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2017 did best on Monday at 93.9% on time and worst on Sunday at 78.4%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 2017 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 6,250 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 46%Late-arriving aircraft
- 37%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
- 5%Security
- 1%Extreme weather
46% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 6,250 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 35 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 6,250 delay minutes reported on AA 2017.
Cancellations sit at 2.19% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.8% 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 1,089 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 2017 in the data flew JFK 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 2017
For a booking, read AA 2017 as 86.0% on time with 2.19% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.