Flight profile · American Airlines
AA2184
Philadelphia (PHL) to Miami (MIA) · scheduled 8:20 AM – 11:20 AM
How AA2184 performs
600 operations, November 2023 – July 2026.
AA2184 arrived on time 81.2% of the time, against 76.2% for all PHL → MIA flights, so this departure is 5.0 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 3.8 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 600 operations, November 2023 – July 2026 · If AA2184 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where AA2184 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2184 | 81.2% | 1.00% | -6 min | 5.3% | 600 |
| American Airlines on PHL → MIA | 77.4% | 1.82% | -8 min | 8.3% | 7,788 |
| All PHL → MIA flights | 76.2% | 1.83% | -8 min | 9.2% | 9,876 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – July 2026
Why AA2184 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s 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 AA2184 on PHL → 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 AA2184 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying AA2184 came in 15 or more minutes late on 18% 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 PHL just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 443 of 594 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 |
|---|---|
| AA2184 | 18% |
| Network, same turn | 23% |
The schedule leaves a long gap on the ground, which gives a late aircraft room to catch up before this flight pushes back.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 90 minutes to 3 hours. How often AA2184’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s. There are not enough departures in both groups to compare how it left.
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 PHL late, does that still matter by the time it reaches MIA?
AA2184 pushes back an average of 10.1 minutes late and reaches the gate at MIA an average of 6.6 minutes late. The 3.5 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 22.8 minutes on the taxiways at PHL is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at MIA, AA2184 spends 9.9 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.
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 32,304 departures from PHL scheduled in the clock hour AA2184 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 AA2184’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves PHL
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. AA2184 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 32,304 departures from PHL are scheduled in the 8 AM–9 AM hour over the period, against 305,181 across the whole day.
AA2184 is scheduled out of PHL at 8:20 AM, in the 8 AM–9 AM bank. Departures from PHL in that hour arrive on time 84.3% of the time against 76.2% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 8.0 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from PHL 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 AA2184 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORD→BOS Chicago to Boston | March 8, 2026 – April 6, 2026 | 26 | — |
| STL→PHL St. Louis to Philadelphia | February 14, 2026 – March 7, 2026 | 7 | — |
| CLT→BNA Charlotte to Nashville | February 17, 2026 – March 4, 2026 | 6 | — |
| DFW→DAB Dallas–Fort Worth to Daytona Beach | February 12–16, 2026 | 3 | — |
| MRY→PHX Monterey to Phoenix | January 6, 2026 – February 11, 2026 | 35 | — |
| PHX→MRY Phoenix to Monterey | January 7, 2026 – February 11, 2026 | 34 | — |
| MIA→LAX Miami to Los Angeles | December 19, 2025 – January 5, 2026 | 17 | — |
| CLT→ILM Charlotte to Wilmington | November 2, 2025 – December 17, 2025 | 45 | — |
| ILM→CLT Wilmington to Charlotte | November 2, 2025 – December 17, 2025 | 45 | — |
| PHL→SFO Philadelphia to San Francisco | October 6, 2025 – November 1, 2025 | 27 | — |
| SFO→PHL San Francisco to Philadelphia | October 6, 2025 – November 1, 2025 | 27 | — |
| CLT→SFO Charlotte to San Francisco | July 1, 2023 – November 4, 2024 | 310 | 50.8% |
| CLT→OKC Charlotte to Oklahoma City | October 5, 2023 – November 4, 2023 | 31 | — |
| OKC→CLT Oklahoma City to Charlotte | October 5, 2023 – November 4, 2023 | 31 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route AA2184 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.
33 min late
against a median of 6 min early
Percentiles over 600 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – July 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2184 this flight | American Airlines | 81.2% | 6 min early | 600 |
| F91203 | Frontier Airlines | 68.0% | 6 min early | 637 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. AA2184 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.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 600 records of AA2184 operating PHL → 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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