AA2008

AA2008 arrived on time 66.2% of the time, against 72.4% for all MIA → EWR flights, so this departure is 6.2 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 1.1 points worse.

AA2008’s scheduled departure has moved during the period FlyerIntel has on file: it typically left around 9:00 PM earlier on, and around 9:45 PM more recently — a 45-minute shift, not the few minutes of day-to-day rounding every published schedule carries. Confirm the current departure time before booking around an older listing.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 610 operations, November 2023 – July 2026 · If AA2008 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

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

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA2008 on MIA → EWR. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

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

The aircraft flying AA2008 came in 15 or more minutes late on 27% 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.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into MIA just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 353 of 597 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.

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

AA2008 pushes back an average of 31.3 minutes late and reaches the gate at EWR an average of 21.2 minutes late. The 10.1 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 22.7 minutes on the taxiways at MIA is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.

On arrival at EWR, AA2008 spends 8.7 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 1.4 minutes shorter than a typical EWR arrival (10.1 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 EWR. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 34,965 departures from MIA scheduled in the clock hour AA2008 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at EWR (387,854 flights), not just AA2008’s own. More on taxi time.

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

AA2008 is scheduled out of MIA at 9:05 PM, in the 9 PM–10 PM bank. Departures from MIA in that hour arrive on time 69.1% of the time against 73.2% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 4.1 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from MIA 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.

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route AA2008 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

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

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. AA2008 is placed in the same ordering rather than left out of it; the rows around it are the most punctual departures on the route, not all of them, so this is a comparison and not a rank. Schedules change; confirm the departure still operates before booking around this.

• AA322 MIA→EWR American Airlines on the same route, departs 9:00 PM, on time 57.0%
• AA1196 EWR→MIA Return trip, EWR to MIA, departs 5:10 AM, on time 93.2%
• AA458 MIA→MSP American Airlines flight out of MIA, MIA to MSP, departs 9:05 PM, on time 67.2%
• AA2887 CLE→MIA American Airlines flight into MIA, CLE to MIA, departs 6:00 AM, on time 89.5%