OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Miami to Philadelphia

1,013 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on MIA–PHL arrive on time 76% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate76%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay50 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.4%of scheduled flights

based on 2,762 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Too close to call — no single carrier is clearly more on-time here.

  • American Airlines
    On-time76%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel1.4%
    Flights2,489
  • Frontier Airlines
    On-time76%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel1.4%
    Flights212
  • Spirit Airlines
    On-time74%
    Medianon time
    p9040 min
    Cancel1.6%
    Flights61

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline40%
  • Weather6%
  • Air traffic (NAS)13%
  • Late aircraft41%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly MIA → PHL

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 87% on time.

  • Mornings87% on time · p90 20 min · 3,010 flights
  • Middays74% on time · p90 60 min · 884 flights
  • Afternoons67% on time · p90 70 min · 1,687 flights
  • Evenings66% on time · p90 80 min · 1,729 flights
  • Overnights64% on time · p90 80 min · 2,096 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 69% to 76% on time.

  • Tuesdays76% on time · p90 55 min · 1,251 flights
  • Wednesdays75% on time · p90 55 min · 1,269 flights
  • Mondays74% on time · p90 65 min · 1,369 flights
  • Fridays74% on time · p90 60 min · 1,400 flights
  • Thursdays73% on time · p90 65 min · 1,375 flights
  • Saturdays72% on time · p90 55 min · 1,334 flights
  • Sundays69% on time · p90 70 min · 1,408 flights
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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.