Flight number record

AA 2803

American Airlines · Miami to Orlando

Route: MIA → MCO
Departs: 20:05
Flights: 342
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2803, check with American Airlines.

AA 2803 draws a D. Roughly one flight in two arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 342 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 2803 runs 19 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 190 extra late arrivals.

On time

58.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 336 completed flights

Avg delay

71 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.75%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

16.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 342 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Schedule

When AA 2803 flies

AA 2803 flies MIA to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:05, used on 44 of 342 flights, with 20:28 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 20:0544 flights12.9%
Departs 20:2837 flights10.8%

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 20:05 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and AA 2803 runs 12 points worse at 58.6%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

AA 2803 next to MIA to MCO

Every carrier on MIA to MCO combined arrived on time 72.1% of the time across 3,804 flights, so AA 2803 is 13 points behind it. American flew 2,993 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 69.2% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 16 points.

AA 2803 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 2803thin sample	342	58.6%	71 min	1.75%	D
All American Airlines on MIA–MCO	2,993	69.2%	73 min	1.10%	C
All carriers on MIA–MCO	3,804	72.1%	72 min	1.00%	C
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 2803 quarter by quarter

AA 2803 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 68.2% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 27.1%, a swing of 41 points on roughly 86 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Jul–Sep 202572 flights27.1%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights68.2%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights67.8%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights64.8%

Scale runs 20% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 2803 did best on Wednesday at 71.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 44.0%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 27 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 2803 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 9,921 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
41%
Carrier
31%
National Airspace System
25%
Extreme weather
3%

41% 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 9,921 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 14 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 9,921 delay minutes reported on AA 2803.

Cancellations sit at 1.75% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 16.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

Every one of the 342 flights under AA 2803 in the data flew MIA to MCO. 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. 342 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 2803

For a booking, AA 2803 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 16.1% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.

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.

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