Carrier route record

AAPVD→PHL

American Airlines · Providence to Philadelphia

Flights: 370
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 PVD to PHL earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 11 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 3.5 hours. That rests on 370 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, American's PVD to PHL record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 105 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

87.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 361 completed flights

Avg delay

210 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.43%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

78.4%

Every carrier on PVD to PHL, 770 flights

These figures cover 370 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 PVD to PHL

American flew 370 of the 770 flights on PVD to PHL, about 48% of it. Its 87.8% on time is 9 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 78.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 87.8% to PSA at 67.5%. 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 PVD to PHL
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
American Airlines (this page)	370	87.8%	210 min	2.43%	A
Republic Airwaysthin sample	37	81.1%	124 min	0.00%	B+
PSA Airlinesthin sample	363	67.5%	126 min	11.02%	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 12 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am259 flights90.4%
8am–11am33 flights78.1%
11am–2pm78 flights83.3%
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 90.4% of the time, against 78.1% for the morning window. That is 12 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 259 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

American on PVD to PHL through the year

Jul–Sep 202583 flights79.3%
Oct–Dec 202587 flights87.4%
Jan–Mar 202647 flights84.4%
Apr–Jun 2026131 flights92.9%
Jul–Sep 202622 flights—

Scale runs 70% to 100%. 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 87.8% on time across 370 flights.

American on PVD to PHL did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 92.9% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 79.3%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 93 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, Friday is the strongest day at 92.7% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 79.6%, a spread of 13 points.

Arrival by arrival

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

American on PVD to PHL often beats the schedule: 137 of 361 completed flights, 38%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When American on PVD to PHL is late it tends to be very late: 23 of its 44 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 15 were two hours or more.

15+ min early137 flights38.0%
Within 15 min180 flights49.9%
15–29 min late13 flights3.6%
30–59 min late8 flights2.2%
1–2 hours late8 flights2.2%
2+ hours late15 flights4.2%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 361 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

9 of 43 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. 10 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for American on PVD to PHL

The latest arrival of the period was on 11 October 2025, 38 hours 26 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of American on PVD to PHL in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
11 October 2025	38 hours 26 minutes	Carrier
30 October 2025	16 hours 55 minutes	Carrier
18 March 2026	16 hours 39 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
21 September 2025	15 hours 1 minute	Carrier
18 September 2025	14 hours 59 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why American runs late on this route

Carrier accounts for 66% of the 9,238 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
66%
Late-arriving aircraft
27%
National Airspace System
4%
Extreme weather
2%

The largest share of delay minutes, 66%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 6,099 of the 9,238 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 9,238 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations sit at 2.43% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

6.4% 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 3.5 hours, 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 80.3% on time across 369 flights, 8 points below 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. 370 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 PVD to PHL

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 370 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 87.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 361 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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