Carrier route record
AASAV→MIA
American Airlines · Savannah to Miami
- Flights
- 169
- 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 SAV to MIA 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 13 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 3.4 hours. That rests on 169 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, American's SAV to MIA record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 126 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 163 completed flights
Avg delay
204 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.55%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
85.7%
Every carrier on SAV to MIA, 788 flights
These figures cover 169 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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.
Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on SAV to MIA
American flew 169 of the 788 flights on SAV to MIA, about 21% of it. Its 90.2% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 85.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 90.2% to Republic at 50.0%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines (this page)thin sample | 169 | 90.2% | 204 min | 3.55% | A− |
| Envoy Air | 611 | 84.9% | 50 min | 1.31% | B |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 8 | 50.0% | 44 min | 0.00% | F+ |
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 169 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split American's SAV to MIA record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 90.2% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
American on SAV to MIA through the year
- Jul–Sep 202570 flights81.2%
- Oct–Dec 20256 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202684 flights96.2%
- Apr–Jun 20269 flights—
Scale runs 75% 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 90.2% on time across 169 flights.
Split by quarter, American on SAV to MIA logged 70 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 6 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 84 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 9 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 90.2% 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 77% of the 3,269 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.
- 77%Carrier
- 21%Late-arriving aircraft
- 2%National Airspace System
- 0%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 77%, 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 2,521 of the 3,269 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,269 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 3.55%, 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
7.4% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 3.4 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 63.4% on time across 168 flights, 27 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 27 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 169 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 SAV to MIA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.55% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 3.4 hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 163 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
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.