Carrier route record
AAMIA→TPA
American Airlines · Miami to Tampa
- Flights
- 2,518
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 86%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 2,518 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on MIA to TPA runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 72 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,498 completed flights
Avg delay
80 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.68%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
71.5%
Every carrier on MIA to TPA, 2,927 flights
These figures cover 2,518 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.3% 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 TPA
American flew 2,518 of the 2,927 flights on MIA to TPA, most of the route. Its 70.1% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 71.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 80.9% to Republic at 62.5%. 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 | 393 | 80.9% | 53 min | 3.56% | B− |
| American Airlines (this page) | 2,518 | 70.1% | 80 min | 0.68% | C+ |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 16 | 62.5% | 43 min | 0.00% | D+ |
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on MIA to TPA
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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 32 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am209 flights92.3%
- 8am–11am345 flights88.1%
- 11am–2pm316 flights72.6%
- 2pm–5pm256 flights69.8%
- 5pm–8pm596 flights60.2%
- 8pm–5am796 flights63.0%
Scale runs 50% to 100%.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 60.2% on time, against 92.3% 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 796 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on MIA to TPA through the year
August is the worst month at 61.1% on time, 20 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 79.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 60.3%, a spread of 19 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on MIA to TPA runs when it is late
The 747 late arrivals split 177 under half an hour, 239 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 331 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early515 flights20.6%
- Within 15 min1,236 flights49.5%
- 15–29 min late177 flights7.1%
- 30–59 min late239 flights9.6%
- 1–2 hours late206 flights8.2%
- 2+ hours late125 flights5.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 2,498 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
102 of 778 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. 71 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on MIA to TPA
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 July 2026, 10 hours 48 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 6 July 2026 | 10 hours 48 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 December 2025 | 10 hours | Carrier |
| 2 May 2026 | 9 hours 4 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 December 2025 | 8 hours 40 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 August 2026 | 8 hours 23 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 60,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
54% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 60,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 12 to one. The split is drawn from 59,820 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 92.3% on time here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.68%, below the national 1.89% 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
13.3% 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.
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 79.9% on time across 2,516 flights, 10 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 10 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 2,518 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 August 61.1%, a swing of 20 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of August before you think about anything else. 2,498 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 TPA80.9%
- 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 7.05 million flight records
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.