Flight profile · American Airlines
AA892
Kansas City (MCI) to Miami (MIA) · scheduled 5:00 AM – 9:15 AM
How AA892 performs
602 operations, November 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on MCI → MIA, AA892 averaged about 4 operations a week (602 in 1,031 days, cancelled ones included).
AA892 arrived on time 86.0% of the time, against 83.5% for all MCI → MIA flights, so this departure is 2.5 percentage points better than the route as a whole.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 602 operations, November 2023 – August 2026 · If AA892 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where AA892 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA892 | 86.0% | 1.00% | -9 min | 4.2% | 602 |
| American Airlines on MCI → MIA | 86.9% | 1.91% | -9 min | 5.0% | 1,255 |
| All MCI → MIA flights | 83.5% | 1.60% | -8 min | 4.7% | 1,942 |
AA892 cancelled 6 of 602 operations (1.00%), below the 1.60% for MCI → MIA.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026
Why AA892 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
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA892 on MCI → 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 AA892 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
AA892 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 6 hours on the ground at MCI, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA892 pushed back an average of 14 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 2 minutes late.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into MCI: 585 of 596 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 | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA892 | 37% | 16% | 8% |
| Network, same turn | 29% | 12% | 9% |
A night on the ground usually absorbs a late arrival, but this flight has passed a late inbound on more often than the network does.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 6 hours or more, usually overnight. How often AA892’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often AA892 left 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s.
Which Flight Numbers Pay for a Late Aircraft ranks the flight numbers that pass a late aircraft on.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves MCI late, does that still matter by the time it reaches MIA?
AA892 pushes back an average of 6.7 minutes late and reaches the gate at MIA an average of 2.7 minutes late. The 4.0 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 18.0 minutes on the taxiways at MCI, 2.2 minutes longer than a typical MCI departure in the same hour.
On arrival at MIA, AA892 spends 10.6 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 10,945 MCI 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 MCI
AA892 has one departure time, 5:00 AM, so this is what that hour at MCI is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 10,945 departures from MCI are scheduled in the 5 AM–6 AM hour over the period, against 157,111 across the whole day.
AA892 is scheduled out of MCI at 5:00 AM, in the 5 AM–6 AM bank. Departures from MCI in that hour arrive on time 90.2% of the time against 81.0% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 9.3 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from MCI, 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 AA892 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA892 also served these 9 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUS→ORD Austin to Chicago | March 8, 2026 – April 6, 2026 | 26 | — |
| DFW→DCA Dallas–Fort Worth to Washington | February 12, 2026 – March 6, 2026 | 20 | — |
| CLT→MYR Charlotte to Myrtle Beach | January 31, 2026 – February 11, 2026 | 12 | — |
| LGA→DFW New York to Dallas–Fort Worth | January 6, 2026 | 1 | — |
| DFW→SFO Dallas–Fort Worth to San Francisco | December 18, 2025 – January 4, 2026 | 16 | — |
| MIA→CLT Miami to Charlotte | December 3–17, 2025 | 15 | — |
| MIA→LGA Miami to New York | November 20, 2025 – December 2, 2025 | 12 | — |
| ORD→LAX Chicago to Los Angeles | November 2–19, 2025 | 18 | — |
| JFK→CLT New York to Charlotte | July 1, 2023 – November 4, 2024 | 339 | 93.7% |
The figures above describe only MCI → MIA, the route AA892 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
22 min late
against a median of 9 min early
Percentiles over 602 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 602 records of AA892 operating MCI → 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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