Flight profile · American Airlines
AA1530
New York (LGA) to Miami (MIA) · scheduled 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM
How AA1530 performs
602 operations, November 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on LGA → MIA, AA1530 averaged about 4 operations a week (602 in 1,031 days, cancelled ones included).
AA1530 arrived on time 86.8% of the time, against 73.8% for all LGA → MIA flights, so this departure is 13.0 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 12.0 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 602 operations, November 2023 – August 2026 · If AA1530 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 AA1530 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight runs unusually far ahead of the LGA → MIA route as a whole, better than 95% of 12,358 comparable flight numbers.
86.8% on time for this specific departure, against 73.8% for every LGA → MIA flight.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 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 AA1530 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA1530 | 86.8% | 1.50% | -17 min | 3.4% | 602 |
| American Airlines on LGA → MIA | 74.8% | 2.86% | -8 min | 10.5% | 10,703 |
| All LGA → MIA flights | 73.8% | 2.74% | -8 min | 11.1% | 18,409 |
AA1530 has cancelled 1.50% of its scheduled departures (9 of 602), against 2.74% for all LGA → MIA flights — this specific departure cancels 1.2 percentage points less often than the route as a whole. Different flight numbers on the same route can carry different aircraft, crews and schedules, so this is a fact about AA1530 specifically, not about the route it flies.
3.4% of AA1530’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 11.1% across LGA → MIA, so the long delays are less common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026
Why AA1530 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
screening or terminal security incidents
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA1530 on LGA → MIA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies AA1530 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
AA1530 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 8.5 hours on the ground at LGA, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA1530 pushed back an average of 2 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 1 minute early.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into LGA: 555 of 593 departures. Unknown, cancelled or diverted inbounds and gaps over 12 hours are left out.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA1530 | 37% | 9% | 6% |
| Network, same turn | 29% | 12% | 9% |
A night on the ground absorbs most of a late arrival, so a late inbound matters far less here than on a same-day turn.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 6 hours or more, usually overnight. How often AA1530’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often AA1530 left 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves LGA late, does that still matter by the time it reaches MIA?
AA1530 pushes back an average of 3.8 minutes late and reaches the gate at MIA an average of 6.4 minutes early. The 10.2 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, so on average a late pushback on this flight is made up before the gate. It spends 20.4 minutes on the taxiways at LGA, 2.6 minutes shorter than a typical LGA departure in the same hour.
On arrival at MIA, AA1530 spends 10.7 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 1.0 minutes longer than a typical MIA arrival (9.7 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 33,535 LGA departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 349,140 arrivals at MIA. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves LGA
AA1530 has one departure time, 7:00 AM, so this is what that hour at LGA is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 33,535 departures from LGA are scheduled in the 7 AM–8 AM hour over the period, against 467,462 across the whole day.
AA1530 is scheduled out of LGA at 7:00 AM, in the 7 AM–8 AM bank. Departures from LGA in that hour arrive on time 87.2% of the time against 78.1% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 9.2 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from LGA, so they describe the slot, not this journey; the route comparison is above. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes AA1530 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA1530 also served these 2 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIA→LGA Miami to New York | July 1, 2023 – May 20, 2026 | 502 | 56.7% |
| DFW→JAC Dallas–Fort Worth to Jackson | March 8, 2026 – April 6, 2026 | 26 | — |
The figures above describe only LGA → MIA, the route AA1530 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
21 min late
against a median of 17 min early
Percentiles over 602 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA1249 | American Airlines | 91.6% | 13 min early | 755 |
| DL2347 | Delta Air Lines | 87.8% | 14 min early | 815 |
| AA1530 this flight | American Airlines | 86.8% | 17 min early | 602 |
| AA970 | American Airlines | 85.0% | 11 min early | 655 |
| AA605 | American Airlines | 73.8% | 8 min early | 765 |
| DL2339 | Delta Air Lines | 72.9% | 8 min early | 697 |
| AA2047 | American Airlines | 64.4% | 3 min late | 605 |
| DL2300 | Delta Air Lines | 63.2% | 1 min late | 787 |
| DL2382 | Delta Air Lines | 62.2% | 5 min early | 707 |
Among the 9 departures listed, AA1530 has the 3rd highest on-time rate, 4.8 points behind the best. Every departure here has at least 600 operations; the other rows are the most punctual on the route, not all of them.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 602 records of AA1530 operating LGA → 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 reported separately, not in the on-time rate.
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