Carrier route record
AAMIA→SAV
American Airlines · Miami to Savannah
- Flights
- 168
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 21%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on MIA to SAV draws a D−. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 168 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so American on MIA to SAV runs 14 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 142 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
63.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 161 completed flights
Avg delay
83 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.57%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
80.2%
Every carrier on MIA to SAV, 788 flights
These figures cover 168 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 17.4% 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.
Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on MIA to SAV
American flew 168 of the 788 flights on MIA to SAV, about 21% of it. Its 63.4% on time is 17 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 80.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 84.7% to American at 63.4%. One 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 Air | 612 | 84.7% | 48 min | 1.31% | B |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 8 | 75.0% | 81 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| American Airlines (this page)thin sample | 168 | 63.4% | 83 min | 3.57% | D− |
Departure window
When American runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 168 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split American's MIA to SAV record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 63.4% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
American on MIA to SAV through the year
- Jul–Sep 202569 flights52.2%
- Oct–Dec 20256 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202685 flights71.2%
- Apr–Jun 20268 flights—
Scale runs 45% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 63.4% on time across 168 flights.
Split by quarter, American on MIA to SAV logged 69 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 6 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 85 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 8 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 63.4% annual figure is the one to use.
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 50% of the 4,898 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.
- 50%Carrier
- 41%Late-arriving aircraft
- 8%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
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 4,898 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 35 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 4,898 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 50%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 2,456 of the 4,898 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 3.57%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 17.4% 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.
At 440 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 8pm–5am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 90.2% on time across 169 flights, 27 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 27 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 168 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 SAV
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.57% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8pm–5am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 161 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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Where to go next
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.