Flight profile · American Airlines
AA2887
Cleveland (CLE) to Miami (MIA) · scheduled 6:00 AM – 9:10 AM
How AA2887 performs
625 operations, November 2023 – July 2026.
AA2887 arrived on time 89.5% of the time, against 78.9% for all CLE → MIA flights, so this departure is 10.6 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 2.2 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 625 operations, November 2023 – July 2026 · If AA2887 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 AA2887 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight runs unusually far ahead of the CLE → MIA route as a whole, better than 91% of 11,788 comparable flight numbers.
89.5% on time for this specific departure, against 78.9% for every CLE → MIA 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.
Where AA2887 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2887 | 89.5% | 0.80% | -11 min | 2.1% | 625 |
| American Airlines on CLE → MIA | 87.3% | 1.00% | -11 min | 3.6% | 1,102 |
| All CLE → MIA flights | 78.9% | 1.45% | -9 min | 8.2% | 2,410 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – July 2026
Why AA2887 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
screening or terminal security incidents
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA2887 on CLE → 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 AA2887 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
AA2887 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 6.1 hours on the ground at CLE, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA2887 pushed back an average of 3 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 3 minutes late.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into CLE just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 613 of 620 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 | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA2887 | 34% | 6% | 6% |
| Network, same turn | 29% | 12% | 9% |
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 AA2887’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often AA2887 left 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s.
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 CLE late, does that still matter by the time it reaches MIA?
AA2887 pushes back an average of 3.0 minutes late and reaches the gate at MIA an average of 3.5 minutes early. The 6.5 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. It spends 17.8 minutes on the taxiways at CLE, 1.0 minutes longer than a typical CLE departure in the same hour.
On arrival at MIA, AA2887 spends 10.7 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 16,316 departures from CLE scheduled in the clock hour AA2887 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 AA2887’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves CLE
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. AA2887 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 16,316 departures from CLE are scheduled in the 6 AM–7 AM hour over the period, against 126,883 across the whole day.
AA2887 is scheduled out of CLE at 6:00 AM, in the 6 AM–7 AM bank. Departures from CLE in that hour arrive on time 90.6% of the time against 80.9% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 9.7 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from CLE 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 AA2887 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DFW→MCO Dallas–Fort Worth to Orlando | February 12, 2026 – April 6, 2026 | 54 | — |
| MCO→DFW Orlando to Dallas–Fort Worth | February 12, 2026 – April 6, 2026 | 54 | — |
| IAH→DFW Houston to Dallas–Fort Worth | February 4–9, 2026 | 2 | — |
| DFW→IAH Dallas–Fort Worth to Houston | February 9, 2026 | 1 | — |
| PHX→SJC Phoenix to San Jose | January 6, 2026 – February 5, 2026 | 4 | — |
| SJC→PHX San Jose to Phoenix | January 6, 2026 – February 5, 2026 | 4 | — |
| MCO→DCA Orlando to Washington | December 18, 2025 – January 5, 2026 | 19 | — |
| DCA→PBI Washington to West Palm Beach | December 3–17, 2025 | 13 | — |
| PBI→DCA West Palm Beach to Washington | December 3–17, 2025 | 13 | — |
| CLT→IND Charlotte to Indianapolis | November 2, 2025 – December 2, 2025 | 31 | — |
| IND→CLT Indianapolis to Charlotte | November 2, 2025 – December 2, 2025 | 30 | — |
| DFW→PHX Dallas–Fort Worth to Phoenix | May 6, 2024 – November 4, 2024 | 179 | 51.7% |
| CLT→MIA Charlotte to Miami | April 4, 2024 – May 4, 2024 | 27 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route AA2887 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.
15 min late
against a median of 11 min early
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 AA2887 operating CLE → 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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