Key On-Time Performance And Flight Cancellation Statistics

ANN just received the following statistical breakdown and was inigured by the data presented. The report posted below is based on data filed with the Bureau of Transportation Statistics by the 20 reporting carriers for December 2005.

Overall

• 71.0 percent on-time arrivals

Highest On-Time Arrival Rates

1. Hawaiian Airlines – 94.2 percent
2. Independence Air – 78.7 percent
3. America West Airlines– 78.5 percent

Lowest On-Time Arrival Rates

1. JetBlue Airways – 63.7 percent
2. Atlantic Southeast Airlines – 65.4 percent
3. Northwest Airlines – 65.6 percent

Most Frequently Delayed Flights

1. Atlantic Southeast Airlines flight 4148 from Dallas-Fort Worth to Salt Lake City – late 100 percent of the time.
2. Southwest Airlines flight 3462 from Houston Hobby Airport to New Orleans – late 100 percent of the time.
3. Southwest Airlines flight 2030 from New Orleans to Houston Hobby Airport – late 95.83 percent of the time
4. American Airlines flight 795 from Miami to St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands – late 94.12 percent of the time
5. American Eagle Airlines flight 4685 from New York JFK to Chicago – late 94.12 percent of the time
6. Northwest Airlines flight 97 from Minneapolis-St. Paul to Honolulu – late 94.12 percent of the time
7. SkyWest Airlines flight 6171 from Sacramento, CA to San Francisco – late 94.12 percent of the time
8. SkyWest Airlines flight 5814 from Birmingham, AL to Chicago – late 94.12 percent of the time

Highest Rates of Canceled Flights

1. American Eagle Airlines – 3.9 percent
2. SkyWest Airlines – 3.3 percent
3. Atlantic Southeast Airlines – 3.3 percent

Lowest Rates of Canceled Flights

1. Hawaiian Airlines – 0.0 percent*
2. Frontier Airlines – 0.3 percent
3. JetBlue Airways – 0.3 percent

*Hawaiian canceled one flight in December.

FMI: www.bts.gov