Route reliability record
MIA→PNS
Miami to Pensacola
- Flights
- 1,185
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 530 mi
- Carriers
- 2
This route lands a B+, 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 50 minutes on average. That rests on 1,185 MIA to PNS flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Best time to fly MIA to PNS: a 8am–11am departure, ideally on a Tuesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 94.1% of the time and Tuesday flights 89.6%, against 83.9% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 66 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,165 completed flights
Avg delay
51 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.93%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
84.2% on time across 1,174 flights
These figures cover 1,185 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on MIA to PNS
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 Air | 1,174 | 84.2% | 50 min | 0.94% | B+ |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 11 | 45.5% | 92 min | 0.00% | F+ |
Flight by flight
Flights on MIA to PNS
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 13 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am97 flights92.5%
- 8am–11am85 flights94.1%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm300 flights81.1%
- 5pm–8pm341 flights81.5%
- 8pm–5am362 flights83.7%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 94.1% of the time, against 81.1% for the afternoon window. That is 13 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 362 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter MIA to PNS by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On MIA to PNS, the best departure window is 8am–11am at 94.1% on time and the worst is 2pm–5pm at 81.1%, a wide gap of 13.0 points. All US flights leaving 8am–11am ran 83.9%.
- 5–8am92.5%
- 8–11am94.1%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2–5pm81.1%
- 5–8pm81.5%
- 8pm–5am83.7%
best all US flightsScale 60% to 100%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 17 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
July is the worst month at 76.3% on time, 17 points below October, the best at 93.4%. 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. January was the busiest month here, with 119 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 89.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 80.0%, a spread of 10 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
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 9,659 reported delay minutes.
- 34%National Airspace System
- 32%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%Extreme weather
- 12%Carrier
Extreme weather accounts for 22% 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 monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 3.7 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 9,659 reported delay minutes.
34% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 3,274 minutes out of 9,659, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations sit at 0.93% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.76%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.9% 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 530 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 runs 82.0% on time across 1,185 flights, within 2 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
The sample behind these figures is 1,185 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in PNS after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. October runs 93.4% on time and July 76.3%, a swing of 17 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 1,165 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
MIA to PNS questions
How often is MIA to PNS delayed?
About one flight in six arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 16.1% of the 1,185 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by roughly 50 minutes on average.
How reliable is MIA to PNS compared with the rest of the country?
83.9% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 7 points in its favour. That is worth a B+ on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on MIA to PNS?
The 8am–11am departure window is the strongest at 94.1% on time. The 2pm–5pm window is the weakest at 81.1%, 13 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are July delays on MIA to PNS?
July is the weakest month at 76.3% on time, compared with 93.4% in October. Across the year that is 17 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- PNS to MIA — the return legseparate record
- Miami International (MIA) delay statistics
- MIA to ATL, a related route74.2%
- ATL to PNS, a related route82.1%
- MIA to LGA, a related route67.4%
- Envoy Air on-time record84.2%
- Republic Airways on-time record45.5%
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
Direction matters. MIA to PNS and PNS to MIA are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.