AA2087

AA2087 arrived on time 91.4% of the time, against 76.5% for all FLL → CLT flights, so this departure is 14.9 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 11.5 points better.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 621 operations, November 2023 – July 2026 · If AA2087 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

This flight runs unusually far ahead of the FLL → CLT route as a whole, better than 98% of 11,788 comparable flight numbers.

91.4% on time for this specific departure, against 76.5% for every FLL → CLT flight.

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.

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

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA2087 on FLL → CLT. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

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

AA2087 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 9 hours on the ground at FLL, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA2087 pushed back an average of 16 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 2 minutes late.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into FLL just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 524 of 617 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

AA2087 pushes back an average of 9.1 minutes late and reaches the gate at CLT an average of 1.6 minutes late. The 7.6 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. It spends 15.2 minutes on the taxiways at FLL, 1.1 minutes shorter than a typical FLL departure in the same hour.

On arrival at CLT, AA2087 spends 10.8 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 2.0 minutes shorter than a typical CLT arrival (12.8 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 CLT. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 17,482 departures from FLL scheduled in the clock hour AA2087 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at CLT (618,237 flights), not just AA2087’s own. More on taxi time.

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

AA2087 is scheduled out of FLL at 8:00 AM, in the 8 AM–9 AM bank. Departures from FLL in that hour arrive on time 85.9% of the time against 72.6% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 13.4 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from FLL 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 AA2087 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. AA2087 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.

• AA1444 JFK→CLT American Airlines flight into CLT, JFK to CLT, departs 7:59 AM, on time 87.6%
• AA346 IND→CLT American Airlines flight into CLT, IND to CLT, departs 8:05 AM, on time 85.7%
• AA2021 CLE→CLT American Airlines flight into CLT, CLE to CLT, departs 8:15 AM, on time 83.8%
• AA444 FLL→PHL American Airlines flight out of FLL, FLL to PHL, departs 7:00 AM, on time 94.0%