Carrier route record
AAMIA→TPA
American Airlines · Miami to Tampa
- Flights
- 2,569
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 87%
- 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 TPA sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 8 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 2,569 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so American on MIA to TPA runs 8 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 84 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
69.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,547 completed flights
Avg delay
81 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.82%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
70.6%
Every carrier on MIA to TPA, 2,947 flights
These figures cover 2,569 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.5% 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 TPA
American flew 2,569 of the 2,947 flights on MIA to TPA, most of the route. Its 69.2% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 70.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 81.7% to Republic at 65.4%. Two 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 | 352 | 81.7% | 48 min | 3.69% | B− |
| American Airlines (this page) | 2,569 | 69.2% | 81 min | 0.82% | C+ |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 26 | 65.4% | 54 min | 0.00% | C+ |
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on MIA to TPA
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 36 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am245 flights92.6%
- 8am–11am349 flights87.0%
- 11am–2pm315 flights70.3%
- 2pm–5pm231 flights72.4%
- 5pm–8pm680 flights57.0%
- 8pm–5am749 flights62.9%
Scale runs 50% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 57.0% on time, against 92.6% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 749 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on MIA to TPA through the year
July is the worst month at 54.0% on time, 28 points below September, the best at 81.5%. 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 250 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 79.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 58.4%. 21 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 64,000 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%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Carrier
- 10%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
53% 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 64,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 13 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 63,691 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 92.6% on time here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.82%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
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. 13.5% 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 204 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 78.0% on time across 2,567 flights, 9 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 9 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 2,569 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.
What to do with this
Booking American on MIA to TPA
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. September runs 81.5% on time and July 54.0%, a swing of 28 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 2,547 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MIA to TPA, every carrier
- American on TPA to MIA, the return leg
- Envoy Air on MIA to TPA81.7%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Miami International (MIA) delay statistics
- Tampa International (TPA) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
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.