The actual numbers of which airline is most often late and by how much.
The actual numbers of which airline is most often late and by how much.
I meant where are the numbers and
here they are.
1. Alaska Airlines, 88.9% on time
2. Hawaiian Airlines, 88.3%
3. United Airlines, 84.7%
4. Delta Air Lines 84.3%
5. Spirit Airlines, 82.9%
6. Virgin America, 82.5%
7. American Airlines, 82.5%
8. Southwest Airlines, 81.8%
9. Allegiant Air, 78.6%
10. Mesa Airlines (flies regional flights for American and United), 76.9%
11. Endeavor Air (flies regional flights for Delta), 76.5%
12. Republic Airlines (flies regional flights for American, Delta and United), 76.2%
13. SkyWest Airlines (flies regional flights for Alaska, American, Delta and United), 75.3%
14. Frontier Airlines, 74.9%
15. Envoy Air (flies regional flights for American), 74.7%
16. ExpressJet (flies regional flights for American and United), 74.6%
17. PSA (flies regional flights for American), 70.2%
18. JetBlue Airways, 65.8%
Total for all covered airlines: 79.6%
Beating just WN and B6 (LCC, so it makes more sense) from the big airlines.
Things not considered in the number:
Length of delays.
Carelessness causes delays.
Delays that are pushed off more then necessary despite originally not being the airlines fault for delay.
Flights that make it on time in the end due to shorter flight times.