AA2984

AA2984 arrived on time 91.3% of the time, against 76.1% for all ORD → MIA flights, so this departure is 15.2 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 15.1 points better.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 731 operations, November 2023 – July 2026 · If AA2984 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

This flight runs unusually far ahead of the carrier's own average on this route, better than 98% of 11,589 comparable flight numbers.

91.3% on time for this specific departure, against 76.2% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.

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.

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

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA2984 on ORD → MIA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – July 2026

AA2984 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 7.4 hours on the ground at ORD, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA2984 pushed back an average of 0 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 1 minute late.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into ORD just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 602 of 724 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

AA2984 pushes back an average of 1.2 minutes late and reaches the gate at MIA an average of 4.7 minutes early. The 5.9 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. Its 15.8 minutes on the taxiways at ORD is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.

On arrival at MIA, AA2984 spends 11.1 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 1.3 minutes longer than a typical MIA arrival (9.8 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 MIA. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 9,462 departures from ORD scheduled in the clock hour AA2984 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 AA2984’s own. More on taxi time.

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

AA2984 is scheduled out of ORD at 5:00 AM, in the 5 AM–6 AM bank. Departures from ORD in that hour arrive on time 88.7% of the time against 74.5% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 14.2 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from ORD 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 AA2984 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. AA2984 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.

• AA1340 MEM→MIA American Airlines flight into MIA, MEM to MIA, departs 5:44 AM, on time 88.1%
• AA2313 PIT→MIA American Airlines flight into MIA, PIT to MIA, departs 6:00 AM, on time 88.6%
• AA315 LAX→MIA American Airlines flight into MIA, LAX to MIA, departs 6:00 AM, on time 88.2%