Flight number record
AA 2980
American Airlines · Boston to Miami
- Route
- BOS → MIA
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 251
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2980, check with American Airlines.
AA 2980 earns an A. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 16 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 251 flights, with a median arrival 22 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2980's record is 16 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 163 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
93.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 245 completed flights
Avg delay
64 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.39%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
2.4%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 251 flights between July 2025 and June 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.
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 251 flights, with 07:00 (56 flights) and 06:50 (34 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 06:00112 flights44.6%
- Departs 07:0056 flights22.3%
- Departs 06:5034 flights13.5%
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 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 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.
Against the route
AA 2980 next to BOS to MIA
Every carrier on BOS to MIA combined arrived on time 77.7% of the time across 3,417 flights, so AA 2980 is 16 points ahead of it. American flew 2,231 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 74.4%, which this flight beats by 20 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2980thin sample | 251 | 93.9% | 64 min | 2.39% | A |
| All American Airlines on BOS–MIA | 2,231 | 82.3% | 74 min | 1.75% | B |
| All carriers on BOS–MIA | 3,417 | 77.7% | 75 min | 2.25% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | 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 202528 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202585 flights91.8%
- Jan–Mar 202688 flights92.8%
- Apr–Jun 202650 flights98.0%
Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2980 did best on Wednesday at 100.0% on time and worst on Saturday at 87.9%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 2980 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 53% of the 960 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.
- 53%Carrier
- 32%National Airspace System
- 13%Extreme weather
- 2%Late-arriving aircraft
Extreme weather accounts for 13% 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 2.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 960 delay minutes reported on AA 2980.
Cancellations sit at 2.39% 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 2.4% 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 1,258 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. 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.
The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including CMH to PHL (76), 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. 251 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 2980
For a booking, read AA 2980 as 93.9% on time with 2.39% cancelled over 251 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.