Carrier route record
AATPA→MIA
American Airlines · Tampa to Miami
- Flights
- 2,516
- 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 TPA to MIA 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 close to two hours on average. That rests on 2,516 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate American on TPA to MIA from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,497 completed flights
Avg delay
111 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.72%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.6%
Every carrier on TPA to MIA, 2,924 flights
These figures cover 2,516 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.0% 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 TPA to MIA
American flew 2,516 of the 2,924 flights on TPA to MIA, most of the route. Its 79.9% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 78.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 79.9% to Republic at 56.2%. 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) | 2,516 | 79.9% | 111 min | 0.72% | B+ |
| Envoy Air | 392 | 70.9% | 80 min | 3.57% | C− |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 16 | 56.2% | 31 min | 0.00% | D+ |
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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 35 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am674 flights93.4%
- 8am–11am1,027 flights84.3%
- 11am–2pm52 flights84.6%
- 2pm–5pm291 flights63.9%
- 5pm–8pm395 flights58.8%
- 8pm–5am77 flights67.6%
Scale runs 50% to 100%.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 58.8% on time, against 93.4% 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 1,027 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on TPA to MIA through the year
September is the best month on the calendar at 87.0% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. March was the busiest month here, with 250 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 87.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 72.0%, a spread of 15 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on TPA to MIA runs when it is late
American on TPA to MIA often beats the schedule: 849 of 2,497 completed flights, 34%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 502 late arrivals split 133 under half an hour, 144 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 225 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early849 flights34.0%
- Within 15 min1,146 flights45.9%
- 15–29 min late133 flights5.3%
- 30–59 min late144 flights5.8%
- 1–2 hours late108 flights4.3%
- 2+ hours late117 flights4.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 2,497 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
79 of 505 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. 76 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on TPA to MIA
The latest arrival of the period was on 17 April 2026, 48 hours 27 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 17 April 2026 | 48 hours 27 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 July 2026 | 39 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 November 2025 | 31 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 August 2026 | 24 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 February 2026 | 15 hours 43 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 56,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 40%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
47% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 56,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 13 to one. The split is drawn from 55,602 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 40%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 22,000 of the 56,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.72%, 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
9.0% 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 70.1% on time across 2,518 flights, 10 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 10 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 2,516 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 TPA to MIA
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. September runs 87.0% on time and May 72.6%, a swing of 14 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of May before you think about anything else. 2,497 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- TPA to MIA, every carrier
- American on MIA to TPA, the return leg
- Envoy Air on TPA to MIA70.9%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Tampa International (TPA) delay statistics
- Miami International (MIA) 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.