Flight profile · American Airlines
AA1342
Nashville (BNA) to Miami (MIA) · scheduled 6:00 AM – 8:50 AM
How AA1342 performs
628 operations, November 2023 – July 2026.
AA1342 arrived on time 85.6% of the time, against 74.9% for all BNA → MIA flights, so this departure is 10.7 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 9.9 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 628 operations, November 2023 – July 2026 · If AA1342 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
What stands out
How AA1342 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight runs unusually far ahead of the carrier's own average on this route, better than 92% of 11,589 comparable flight numbers.
85.6% on time for this specific departure, against 75.7% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – July 2026 · The one thing about this specific departure that ranks most extreme against every other published flight number, out of everything FlyerIntel checks — shown only when something clears a real statistical bar, not for every flight.
Where AA1342 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA1342 | 85.6% | 0.80% | -7 min | 4.2% | 628 |
| American Airlines on BNA → MIA | 75.7% | 1.31% | -5 min | 10.0% | 3,595 |
| All BNA → MIA flights | 74.9% | 1.33% | -4 min | 9.2% | 7,603 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – July 2026
Why AA1342 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA1342 on BNA → MIA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies AA1342 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
AA1342 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 6.2 hours on the ground at BNA, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA1342 pushed back an average of 11 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 1 minute late.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into BNA just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 604 of 624 departures in all. A departure is left out when that flight is unknown, was cancelled or diverted, or the aircraft had sat for more than 12 hours. A flight the airline cancelled never left and is not in the count, and one flown by a substitute aircraft is matched to the aircraft that flew it, not to the one first planned.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA1342 | 30% | 13% | 8% |
| Network, same turn | 29% | 12% | 9% |
A night on the ground absorbs most of a late arrival, so a late inbound matters far less on a turn this long than on a same-day one.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 6 hours or more, usually overnight. How often AA1342’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often AA1342 left 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s.
More: Which Flight Numbers Pay for a Late Aircraft lists the flight numbers that pass a late aircraft on.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves BNA late, does that still matter by the time it reaches MIA?
AA1342 pushes back an average of 10.4 minutes late and reaches the gate at MIA an average of 8.3 minutes late. The 2.1 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, which is why a late pushback on this flight does not reliably become a late arrival. Its 17.0 minutes on the taxiways at BNA is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at MIA, AA1342 spends 11.5 min taxiing from touchdown to the gate — ground time a connecting passenger sits through before they can even leave the aircraft, on top of however late the flight itself ran. That is 1.7 minutes longer than a typical MIA arrival (9.8 min).
Departure delay is averaged over every pushback and arrival delay over every completed arrival, so the two counts differ by the flights that never reached MIA. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 22,697 departures from BNA scheduled in the clock hour AA1342 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at MIA (340,467 flights), not just AA1342’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves BNA
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. AA1342 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 22,697 departures from BNA are scheduled in the 6 AM–7 AM hour over the period, against 319,645 across the whole day.
AA1342 is scheduled out of BNA at 6:00 AM, in the 6 AM–7 AM bank. Departures from BNA in that hour arrive on time 88.8% of the time against 78.3% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 10.5 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from BNA to every destination, so they describe the slot rather than this journey — the like-for-like comparison against the route is above. Hours are scheduled local, and a number whose schedule moved between banks inside the period has no single hour and is not described here at all. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes AA1342 has flown
A flight number is a slot in a schedule, and carriers reassign it. These are the other city pairs this number served in the analysis period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| DCA→DFW Washington to Dallas–Fort Worth | March 8, 2026 – April 6, 2026 | 30 | — |
| AUS→CLT Austin to Charlotte | February 12, 2026 – March 7, 2026 | 18 | — |
| SRQ→CLT Sarasota/Bradenton to Charlotte | February 17, 2026 – March 4, 2026 | 6 | — |
| MIA→TPA Miami to Tampa | January 8, 2026 – February 10, 2026 | 30 | — |
| MSY→PHL New Orleans to Philadelphia | December 3–17, 2025 | 15 | — |
| PHL→MSY Philadelphia to New Orleans | December 3–17, 2025 | 15 | — |
| PHX→MRY Phoenix to Monterey | November 20, 2025 – December 1, 2025 | 11 | — |
| PHL→CLT Philadelphia to Charlotte | November 2–19, 2025 | 16 | — |
| DFW→CLT Dallas–Fort Worth to Charlotte | September 4, 2024 – November 4, 2024 | 62 | — |
| MYR→ORD Myrtle Beach to Chicago | June 8, 2024 – August 31, 2024 | 13 | — |
| ORD→MYR Chicago to Myrtle Beach | June 8, 2024 – August 31, 2024 | 13 | — |
| PHX→DFW Phoenix to Dallas–Fort Worth | July 1, 2023 – August 5, 2024 | 188 | 74.0% |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route AA1342 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
25 min late
against a median of 7 min early
Percentiles over 628 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – July 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 628 records of AA1342 operating BNA → MIA, published by the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and reported separately. Flight numbers are resolved as carrier plus number plus route, because the same number serves different routes over time.
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