AA2188

AA2188 arrived on time 70.5% of the time, against 74.2% for all MIA → PHL flights, so this departure is 3.7 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 4.5 points worse.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 604 operations, November 2023 – July 2026 · If AA2188 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 AA2188 on MIA → PHL. 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 AA2188 came in 15 or more minutes late on 28% 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, 384 of 590 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

AA2188 pushes back an average of 21.4 minutes late and reaches the gate at PHL an average of 10.8 minutes late. The 10.6 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. Its 21.9 minutes on the taxiways at MIA is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.

On arrival at PHL, AA2188 spends 7.2 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 shorter than a typical PHL arrival (8.2 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 PHL. 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 AA2188 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at PHL (305,143 flights), not just AA2188’s own. More on taxi time.

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

AA2188 is scheduled out of MIA at 9:01 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 AA2188 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. AA2188 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.

• AA551 MIA→PHL American Airlines on the same route, departs 9:40 AM, on time 85.7%
• AA2184 PHL→MIA Return trip, PHL to MIA, departs 8:20 AM, on time 81.2%
• AA670 MIA→MCI American Airlines flight out of MIA, MIA to MCI, departs 9:25 PM, on time 64.8%
• AA406 AUS→MIA American Airlines flight into MIA, AUS to MIA, departs 5:20 AM, on time 90.2%