Alaska Air Tops List Of On-Time Flights, Airtran Not So Much

September 10, 2009 at 5:33 PM | by Omri | Comments (0)

The Department of Transportation has released their July on-time figures and analysis, and—as much as it pains us to say this—good job, airlines:

Airline passengers got to their destination on time a little more often in July... 77.6 percent of airline flights arrived on time, up from 75.7 percent during the same month last year. July's showing was also an improvement over the 76.1 percent on-time rate in June. Airlines have generally been flying less because of the recession, and that seems to be helping them get their remaining flights to their destinations on time.

Hawaiian and Alaska, both of which have new routes opening up, led the pack with 93.6% and 87.2% respectively. In fairness to their competitors, Hawaiian gets to boost their numbers by puddle-hopping from one island to the next. Though now in fairness to Hawaiian, they also have to fly routes to and from California and Southeast Asia. Southwest gets to fly a bunch of regional routes and they couldn't do better than fourth with 80.7%.

The real failures, out of the 19 total airlines, were JetBlue at #15 and Airtran at #17. Airtran couldn't make it within 15 minutes even 70% of the time. No LCC flying tight routes should be in the same part of the list as American and Delta.

The top non-LCC was US Airways at #5, and we'd have more to say about that except we're grumpy with them right now.

[Photo: Arpingstone / Wiki Commons]

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