Flight profile · American Airlines
AA2240
Orlando (MCO) to Miami (MIA) · scheduled 10:00 AM – 11:10 AM
How AA2240 performs
603 operations, November 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on MCO → MIA, AA2240 averaged about 4 operations a week (603 in 1,031 days, cancelled ones included).
AA2240 arrived on time 87.2% of the time, against 76.7% for all MCO → MIA flights, so this departure is 10.5 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 10.7 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 603 operations, November 2023 – August 2026 · If AA2240 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
What stands out
How AA2240 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight runs unusually far ahead of the carrier's own average on this route, better than 93% of 12,152 comparable flight numbers.
87.2% on time for this specific departure, against 76.5% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 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.
Where AA2240 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2240 | 87.2% | 1.16% | -9 min | 3.9% | 603 |
| American Airlines on MCO → MIA | 76.5% | 1.45% | -6 min | 10.2% | 9,273 |
| All MCO → MIA flights | 76.7% | 1.41% | -6 min | 9.9% | 12,041 |
AA2240 cancelled 7 of 603 operations (1.16%), close to the 1.41% for MCO → MIA.
3.9% of AA2240’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 9.9% across MCO → MIA, so the long delays are less common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026
Why AA2240 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow 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 AA2240 on MCO → MIA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies AA2240 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying AA2240 came in 15 or more minutes late on 8% 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 MCO: 577 of 597 departures. Unknown, cancelled or diverted inbounds and gaps over 12 hours are left out.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late |
|---|---|
| AA2240 | 8% |
| Network, same turn | 18% |
51 scheduled minutes is enough to clean and board when the aircraft is on time, with little to spare when it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 45 to 59 minutes. How often AA2240’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.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves MCO late, does that still matter by the time it reaches MIA?
AA2240 pushes back an average of 8.5 minutes late and reaches the gate at MIA an average of 3.3 minutes late. The 5.2 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, so a late pushback is partly, not fully, made up before the gate. It spends 17.7 minutes on the taxiways at MCO, 1.1 minutes shorter than a typical MCO departure in the same hour.
On arrival at MIA, AA2240 spends 10.4 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 31,087 MCO 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 · November 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves MCO
AA2240 has one departure time, 10:00 AM, so this is what that hour at MCO is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 31,087 departures from MCO are scheduled in the 10 AM–11 AM hour over the period, against 510,306 across the whole day.
AA2240 is scheduled out of MCO at 10:00 AM, in the 10 AM–11 AM bank. Departures from MCO in that hour arrive on time 82.5% of the time against 74.6% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 7.9 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from MCO, 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 · November 2023 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes AA2240 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA2240 also served these 4 other city pairs in the period.
The figures above describe only MCO → MIA, the route AA2240 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
20 min late
against a median of 9 min early
Percentiles over 603 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2894 | American Airlines | 93.3% | 12 min early | 994 |
| AA2240 this flight | American Airlines | 87.2% | 9 min early | 603 |
Among all 2 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, AA2240 has the lowest on-time rate, 6.1 points behind the best. Every departure here has at least 600 operations; the other rows are the most punctual on the route, not all of them.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 603 records of AA2240 operating MCO → 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 reported separately, not in the on-time rate.
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