Originally Posted by
Roamingredcoat
36 mins seems a standard minimum banked flights timing, so it's a risky connection but one they seem confident in enough to regularly schedule. I had a RNO-PHX-JFK connection for 36 mins earlier in the year. My Inbound to PHX arrived ~10 minutes late in A pier, outbound was on B pier. I was mid-back to de-board, did a NYC paced walk between gates, and arrived when outbound was boarding group 4 and joined the queue. My checked snowboard bag made the connection just fine.
Guessing it's the 7:27am MIA-PHX, so lower chance of rolling delays impact. As you noted there isn't really an alternative one-day one-stop itinerary on AA, so your alt (unless you switch to DL or UA) is a routing you may get rebooked into anyways in case of delays. If you're travelling solo I'd do it. As noted, maybe get a schedule change between now and then anyways.
The minimum time is 25 minutes, and as you've shown, that time is doable. Yes you're nuts if you're getting to a wedding and if anything goes wrong then you'll miss it, but given PHX's pretty good weather and the reasonably good layout of the gates, it doesn't take much time to get between them.