OK, our trip back through Miami may well not have been a glitch then, so people on that 8 AM AA flight be warned, if you don't have Global Entry! I would allow at the least 2 hours if you have a connection, if you check bags. Although truthfully for us, since immigration took so long, the checked bags didn't add much extra time at all.

I can see why they offer that flight, especially for people who have to connect to the west coast, but I hated that time. If we had not had to connect on to Tampa, and just driven home from Miami, it would have been OK, I guess. We would have been home by around 4. We did get home at 6 PM, which is way earlier than we normally get home, when we take the afternoon flight.