Carrier route record

AAPHL→PVD

American Airlines · Philadelphia to Providence

Flights: 369
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 48%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.

American on PHL to PVD lands a B, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 369 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate American on PHL to PVD from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

80.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 360 completed flights

Avg delay

58 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.44%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

75.7%

Every carrier on PHL to PVD, 769 flights

These figures cover 369 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 6 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

American against every carrier on PHL to PVD

American flew 369 of the 769 flights on PHL to PVD, about 48% of it. Its 80.3% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 75.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 80.3% to PSA at 70.3%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on PHL to PVD
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
American Airlines (this page)	369	80.3%	58 min	2.44%	B
Republic Airwaysthin sample	36	77.8%	83 min	0.00%	B+
PSA Airlinesthin sample	364	70.3%	89 min	11.81%	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 19 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am—
8am–11am70 flights87.1%
11am–2pm5 flights—
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm48 flights68.1%
8pm–5am246 flights80.7%

Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 87.1% of the time, against 68.1% for the evening window. That is 19 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 246 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

American on PHL to PVD through the year

Jul–Sep 202584 flights77.1%
Oct–Dec 202585 flights70.6%
Jan–Mar 202648 flights87.0%
Apr–Jun 2026131 flights85.8%
Jul–Sep 202621 flights—

Scale runs 60% to 90%. 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 80.3% on time across 369 flights.

American on PHL to PVD did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 87.0% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 70.6%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 92 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 83.3% on time and Saturday the weakest at 75.0%, a spread of 8 points.

Arrival by arrival

How late American on PHL to PVD runs when it is late

The 71 late arrivals split 22 under half an hour, 21 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 28 an hour or more.

15+ min early87 flights24.2%
Within 15 min202 flights56.1%
15–29 min late22 flights6.1%
30–59 min late21 flights5.8%
1–2 hours late21 flights5.8%
2+ hours late7 flights1.9%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 360 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

14 of 81 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. Only 4 left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for American on PHL to PVD

The latest arrival of the period was on 9 November 2025, 2 hours 57 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.

The latest arrivals of American on PHL to PVD in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
9 November 2025	2 hours 57 minutes	Extreme weather
6 October 2025	2 hours 50 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
29 June 2026	2 hours 39 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
11 March 2026	2 hours 26 minutes	National Airspace System
7 September 2025	2 hours 25 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why American runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 4,102 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
44%
Carrier
37%
National Airspace System
13%
Extreme weather
6%

44% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,102 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. The split is drawn from 4,102 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 37%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,502 of the 4,102 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations sit at 2.44% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

7.8% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 237 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 87.8% on time across 370 flights, 8 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 8 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 369 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 PHL to PVD

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 369 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 80.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 360 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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