Flight profile · American Airlines
AA2426
Miami (MIA) to San Francisco (SFO) · scheduled 7:30 PM – 11:01 PM
How AA2426 performs
625 operations, November 2023 – July 2026.
AA2426 arrived on time 58.8% of the time, against 69.3% for all MIA → SFO flights, so this departure is 10.5 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 8.4 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 625 operations, November 2023 – July 2026 · If AA2426 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where AA2426 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2426 | 58.8% | 0.32% | 7 min | 15.4% | 625 |
| American Airlines on MIA → SFO | 67.2% | 0.52% | -1 min | 12.9% | 3,300 |
| All MIA → SFO flights | 69.3% | 0.78% | -2 min | 11.9% | 5,020 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – July 2026
Why AA2426 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 AA2426 on MIA → SFO. 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 AA2426 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
AA2426 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 9.3 hours on the ground at MIA, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.
The aircraft flying AA2426 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 MIA just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 447 of 623 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 |
|---|---|
| AA2426 | 18% |
| Network, same turn | 29% |
A night on the ground absorbs most of a late arrival, so a late inbound matters far less on a turn this long than on a same-day one.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 6 hours or more, usually overnight. How often AA2426’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 MIA late, does that still matter by the time it reaches SFO?
AA2426 pushes back an average of 28.7 minutes late and reaches the gate at SFO an average of 24.9 minutes late. The 3.9 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 25.4 minutes on the taxiways at MIA, 1.1 minutes longer than a typical MIA departure in the same hour.
On arrival at SFO, AA2426 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 2.5 minutes longer than a typical SFO arrival (7.9 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 SFO. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 30,212 departures from MIA scheduled in the clock hour AA2426 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at SFO (436,060 flights), not just AA2426’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves MIA
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. AA2426 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 30,212 departures from MIA are scheduled in the 7 PM–8 PM hour over the period, against 340,469 across the whole day.
AA2426 is scheduled out of MIA at 7:30 PM, in the 7 PM–8 PM bank. Departures from MIA in that hour arrive on time 64.4% of the time against 73.2% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 8.8 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.
Other routes AA2426 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JAX→DCA Jacksonville to Washington | July 1, 2023 – April 6, 2026 | 368 | 87.0% |
| LAS→PHX Las Vegas to Phoenix | January 6, 2026 – February 11, 2026 | 37 | — |
| PHX→LAS Phoenix to Las Vegas | January 6, 2026 – February 11, 2026 | 35 | — |
| TPA→ORD Tampa to Chicago | December 26, 2025 – January 5, 2026 | 11 | — |
| DFW→FLL Dallas–Fort Worth to Fort Lauderdale | December 20–22, 2025 | 2 | — |
| FLL→DFW Fort Lauderdale to Dallas–Fort Worth | December 20–22, 2025 | 2 | — |
| ABQ→PHX Albuquerque to Phoenix | November 2, 2025 – December 2, 2025 | 31 | — |
| DFW→SMF Dallas–Fort Worth to Sacramento | July 7, 2024 | 1 | — |
| ORD→MIA Chicago to Miami | May 7, 2024 – June 4, 2024 | 21 | — |
| LAX→CLT Los Angeles to Charlotte | May 6, 2024 | 1 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route AA2426 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.
81 min late
against a median of 7 min late
AA2426 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 7 min late, but the worst tenth are 74 minutes worse than that. If the trip has something unmissable at the end of it, the median is the wrong number to plan against.
Percentiles over 625 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – July 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 625 records of AA2426 operating MIA → SFO, 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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