Flight number record
AA 2980
American Airlines · Boston to Miami
- Route
- BOS → MIA
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 252
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2980, check with American Airlines.
AA 2980 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 15 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 252 flights, with a median arrival 21 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2980's record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 154 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
92.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 246 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.38%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 252 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 21 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 2980 flies
AA 2980 flies BOS to MIA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 112 of 252 flights, with 06:50 (34 flights) and 06:46 (31 flights) next.
- Departs 06:00112 flights44.4%
- Departs 06:5034 flights13.5%
- Departs 06:4631 flights12.3%
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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 2980 runs 3 points better at 92.7%. 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 2980 next to BOS to MIA
Every carrier on BOS to MIA combined arrived on time 78.0% of the time across 3,368 flights, so AA 2980 is 15 points ahead of it. American flew 2,271 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.3% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 18 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2980thin sample | 252 | 92.7% | 65 min | 2.38% | A |
| All American Airlines on BOS–MIA | 2,271 | 82.3% | 77 min | 1.72% | B |
| All carriers on BOS–MIA | 3,368 | 78.0% | 78 min | 2.17% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 2980 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 2980 held fairly steady: 91.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 92.8% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 98.0% 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 20252 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202585 flights91.8%
- Jan–Mar 202688 flights92.8%
- Apr–Jun 202650 flights98.0%
- Jul–Sep 202627 flights—
Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2980 ranged from 87.9% on Saturday to 97.2% on Wednesday. With about 36 flights behind each day, a spread of 9 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2980 runs when it is late
AA 2980 often beats the schedule: 151 of 246 completed flights, 61%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 18 late arrivals split 5 under half an hour, 6 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 7 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early151 flights61.4%
- Within 15 min77 flights31.3%
- 15–29 min late5 flights2.0%
- 30–59 min late6 flights2.4%
- 1–2 hours late3 flights1.2%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 246 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 19 of 246 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 2980
The latest arrival of the period was on 23 August 2026, 3 hours 5 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 23 August 2026 | 3 hours 5 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 13 February 2026 | 2 hours 34 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 October 2025 | 2 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 January 2026 | 2 hours 5 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 18 December 2025 | 1 hour 52 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 2980 runs late
Carrier accounts for 51% of the 1,165 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%Carrier
- 37%National Airspace System
- 11%Extreme weather
- 2%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 51%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 592 of the 1,165 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,165 delay minutes reported on AA 2980.
Cancellations sit at 2.38% against a national 1.89%, 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 2.8% 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 1,258 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.
The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including CMH to PHL (75), DFW to SFO (33) and CVG to DFW (1), but none flew often enough under AA 2980 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to BOS to MIA only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 252 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
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For a booking, read AA 2980 as 92.7% on time with 2.38% cancelled over 252 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.