Carrier route record
AAMIA→CLE
American Airlines · Miami to Cleveland
- Flights
- 456
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 51%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on MIA to CLE sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 456 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on MIA to CLE runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 74 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
69.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 448 completed flights
Avg delay
61 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.10%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
71.8%
Every carrier on MIA to CLE, 891 flights
These figures cover 456 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on MIA to CLE
American flew 456 of the 891 flights on MIA to CLE, most of the route. Its 69.9% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 71.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 76.5% to American at 69.9%. Three of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 165 | 76.5% | 43 min | 1.21% | B |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 4 | 75.0% | 75 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 266 | 72.1% | 78 min | 0.75% | C+ |
| American Airlines (this page) | 456 | 69.9% | 61 min | 1.10% | C |
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Departure window
When American runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 24 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm91 flights76.1%
- 5pm–8pm33 flights90.6%
- 8pm–5am332 flights66.2%
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is the strongest at 90.6% on time. The full set of windows spans 24 points.
Across the year
American on MIA to CLE through the year
July is the worst month at 48.4% on time, 35 points below December, the best at 83.3%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. March was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 83.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 62.5%, a spread of 21 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on MIA to CLE runs when it is late
American on MIA to CLE often beats the schedule: 121 of 448 completed flights, 27%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 135 late arrivals split 47 under half an hour, 40 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 48 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early121 flights27.0%
- Within 15 min192 flights42.9%
- 15–29 min late47 flights10.5%
- 30–59 min late40 flights8.9%
- 1–2 hours late34 flights7.6%
- 2+ hours late14 flights3.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 448 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
16 of 126 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. In the other direction, 25 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at CLE.
The worst days
Worst days for American on MIA to CLE
The latest arrival of the period was on 2 October 2025, 9 hours 58 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 2 October 2025 | 9 hours 58 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 October 2025 | 4 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 March 2026 | 3 hours 54 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 July 2026 | 3 hours 34 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 March 2026 | 3 hours 11 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 43% of the 8,222 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%Late-arriving aircraft
- 43%Carrier
- 12%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
43% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 8,222 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 18 to one. The split is drawn from 8,222 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 43%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,504 of the 8,222 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.10% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.66%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
10.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 1,080 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 return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 86.6% on time across 456 flights, 17 points above this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 17 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 456 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 American on MIA to CLE
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 456 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 69.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 448 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MIA to CLE, every carrier
- American on CLE to MIA, the return leg
- Envoy Air on MIA to CLE76.5%
- Frontier Airlines on MIA to CLE72.1%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Miami International (MIA) delay statistics
- Cleveland Hopkins International (CLE) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.