AA1968

Between its first and last recorded date on PHX → MIA, AA1968 averaged about 4 operations a week (638 in 1,158 days, cancelled ones included).

AA1968 arrived on time 84.9% of the time, against 81.6% for all PHX → MIA flights, so this departure is 3.3 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 3.3 points better.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 638 operations, July 2023 – August 2026 · If AA1968 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

None of AA1968’s 638 operations was cancelled; the route as a whole cancels 0.76%.

2.8% of AA1968’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 5.5% across PHX → MIA, so the long delays are less common on this number than on the route.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA1968 on PHX → MIA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026

The aircraft flying AA1968 came in 15 or more minutes late on 7% of the departures where its previous flight is known. There are not enough departures in both groups to say how the flight left after a late one and after an on-time one.

Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into PHX: 486 of 638 departures. Unknown, cancelled or diverted inbounds and gaps over 12 hours are left out.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026

AA1968 pushes back an average of 5.3 minutes late and reaches the gate at MIA an average of 3.4 minutes early. The 8.7 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 24.4 minutes on the taxiways at PHX, 4.7 minutes longer than a typical PHX departure in the same hour.

On arrival at MIA, AA1968 spends 9.0 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 about what any arrival at MIA spends on the ground before reaching the gate.

Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 41,343 PHX 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 · July 2023 – August 2026

AA1968 is scheduled out of PHX at 9:40 AM, in the 9 AM–10 AM bank. Departures from PHX in that hour arrive on time 85.1% of the time against 80.2% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 5.0 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.

Both airport figures cover every destination from PHX, 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 · July 2023 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

The figures above describe only PHX → MIA, the route AA1968 flies now.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026

• AA1983 MIA→PHX Return trip, MIA to PHX, departs 7:28 AM, on time 86.0%
• AA1613 MIA→SJU American Airlines flight out of MIA, MIA to SJU, departs 10:00 AM, on time 83.0%
• AA2414 SFO→PHX American Airlines flight into PHX, SFO to PHX, departs 9:15 AM, on time 85.2%
• AA1716 STL→MIA American Airlines flight into MIA, STL to MIA, departs 5:15 AM, on time 90.6%