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Airport month · April 2025

Miami International in April 2025

76.7%departed on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In April 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 9,878 domestic departures from Miami International (MIA). 76.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 76.3% reached their destination on time; 0.8% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.6% of flights departed on time and 79.5% arrived on time, so MIA departures were 3.9 points below the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in April 2024, the airport had 9,590 departures with 77.0% leaving on time: a change of −0.3 points, with flights up 3%.

Flights arriving at MIA that month were on time 79.6% of the time (9,889 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 43%, air carrier 34% and national aviation system 19%.

Every scheduled departure from MIA in April 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

April 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

MeasureApr 2025Apr 2024MIA, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Apr 2025
Departed on time76.7%77.0%72.9%80.6%
Arrived on time76.3%76.5%72.3%79.5%
Cancelled0.8%0.8%1.6%0.8%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)17.6 min17.8 min19.7 min14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day32932030519,465
Scheduled departures9,8789,590111,186583,950

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
AA American Airlines5,55356%72.8%12.4 min0.8%
MQ Envoy Air1,13912%86.7%-1.9 min1.2%
DL Delta Air Lines96610%77.7%8.6 min0.7%
UA United Airlines5876%80.9%4.1 min0.3%
WN Southwest Airlines4785%81.4%5.3 min0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines4655%77.4%11.0 min0.6%
F9 Frontier Airlines3954%77.5%6.5 min1.5%
B6 JetBlue Airways1762%76.7%4.4 min0.0%
YX Republic Airline681%82.4%20.0 min0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines511%76.5%-4.5 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
MIA–ATLMiami to Atlanta56473.6%11.4 min1.6%
MIA–LGAMiami to New York51276.4%11.8 min0.8%
MIA–JFKMiami to New York48973.8%8.8 min0.8%
MIA–BOSMiami to Boston41377.7%3.6 min0.5%
MIA–ORDMiami to Chicago38376.0%6.6 min1.3%
MIA–DFWMiami to Dallas/Fort Worth37464.7%18.3 min1.3%
MIA–EWRMiami to Newark34866.1%17.8 min1.1%
MIA–CLTMiami to Charlotte33777.2%5.7 min0.9%
MIA–MCOMiami to Orlando32972.9%12.7 min0.9%
MIA–DCAMiami to Washington32572.9%10.5 min0.6%
MIA–PHLMiami to Philadelphia31876.7%10.2 min0.6%
MIA–IAHMiami to Houston31580.0%5.2 min1.0%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over
Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), April 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Apr 2025Minutes
Air carrier33.9%32.7%54,367
Late-arriving aircraft42.8%39.4%68,707
National Aviation System18.6%22.2%29,919
Extreme weather4.4%5.5%7,120
Security0.3%0.2%402
160,515 delay minutes on 2,234 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
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Questions and answers

How many flights left MIA on time in April 2025?

76.7% of 9,878 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 76.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.6% and 79.5%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In April 2024, 77.0% of 9,590 departures left on time and 0.8% were cancelled, against 76.7% and 0.8% in April 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for April 2025; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for MIA · methodology · corrections.