US airlines report fewer delays in May
US airlines improved their on-time arrival rates in May, although more than one in five flights still failed to get passengers to their destination as scheduled.
By Agencies |
NEW YORK: US airlines improved their on-time arrival rates in May, although more than one in five flights still failed to get passengers to their destination as scheduled, according to a government data.
A total of 21 per cent of commercial flights in the US arrived at least 15 minutes late, were canceled or diverted in May, according to the Transportation Department's Bureau of Transportation Statistics released yesterday.
That is down from more than 22 per cent of late flights in the same month last year and in April 2008.
The previous month's figure was higher in part because AMR Corporation's American Airlines, the nation's largest carrier, was forced to ground thousands of flights amid tighter government scrutiny of maintenance issues.
For the third month in a row, American ranked last in on-time service. Passengers on just over two-thirds of the Fort Worth, Texas-based carrier's flights 67.3 per cent got to their destinations on time in May.
"Unfortunately, the main reasons include weather and significant (air-traffic control) delays at three of our main network operating areas" in Chicago, New York, and Dallas-Fort Worth, as well as in Miami, American spokesman Tim Smith said in an e-mailed statement.
UAL Corporation's United Airlines, the second-largest carrier, which reported 72.4 per cent of arrivals were on time, and Continental Airlines Inc, with 75.4 per cent, rounded out the bottom of the on-time list.
Hawaiian Airlines was able to stick closest to its timetable, delivering passengers as scheduled 88.9 per cent of the time.
The carrier, a division of Hawaiian Holdings Inc, avoids many of the nation's most delay-prone airports, however, reporting flights to just 14 destinations.
A total of 21 per cent of commercial flights in the US arrived at least 15 minutes late, were canceled or diverted in May, according to the Transportation Department's Bureau of Transportation Statistics released yesterday.
That is down from more than 22 per cent of late flights in the same month last year and in April 2008.
The previous month's figure was higher in part because AMR Corporation's American Airlines, the nation's largest carrier, was forced to ground thousands of flights amid tighter government scrutiny of maintenance issues.
For the third month in a row, American ranked last in on-time service. Passengers on just over two-thirds of the Fort Worth, Texas-based carrier's flights 67.3 per cent got to their destinations on time in May.
"Unfortunately, the main reasons include weather and significant (air-traffic control) delays at three of our main network operating areas" in Chicago, New York, and Dallas-Fort Worth, as well as in Miami, American spokesman Tim Smith said in an e-mailed statement.
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UAL Corporation's United Airlines, the second-largest carrier, which reported 72.4 per cent of arrivals were on time, and Continental Airlines Inc, with 75.4 per cent, rounded out the bottom of the on-time list.
Hawaiian Airlines was able to stick closest to its timetable, delivering passengers as scheduled 88.9 per cent of the time.
The carrier, a division of Hawaiian Holdings Inc, avoids many of the nation's most delay-prone airports, however, reporting flights to just 14 destinations.
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