FlightStats March 2011 On-time Performance Report

Airline and Airport On-Time Performance March 2011 Report

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Finally, Some Relief From Winter Cancellations

North American airlines operations returned to normal after the worst winter in recent history. After nearly 38,000 canceled flights in February, a tally of 12,600 canceled flights in March seems like good news.

- On-time arrival performance for the remaining operated flights by these carriers was 77.05%, up from 74.46% in February and 71.47% in January.

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N. American Top Performing Airlines in MarchWinter weather persisted but didn’t prevent 18 airlines from delivering >

80% of their flights to the gate on time.

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Airline On-Time Arrival Performance %

Hawaiian Airlines 88.21%

Era Aviation 87.43%

Mesa Airlines 85.73%

United Airlines 84.03%

AirTran Airways 82.84%

US Airways 82.68%

Porter Airlines 82.48%

Compass Airlines 82.42%

Mesaba Airlines 82.36%

Alaska Airlines 82.19%


How N. American Major Airlines Compared In March

*Source for Southwest Airlines arrival data is the US FAA. Southwest disputes the accuracy of this data

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Airline On-Time Arrival Performance % Overall Rank

United Airlines 84.03% 4

US Airways 82.68% 6

Alaska Airlines 82.19% 10

American Airlines 80.77% 14

Delta Airlines 78.62% 25

Continental Airlines 78.25% 26

Jet Blue 69.82% 36

Southwest Airlines* 68.49% 38

Air Canada 61.36% 42


European Airlines: Top On-Time Performance

Regional airlines had the 10 best on-time arrival records in March - all 10 exceeding 90%. Air One, Alitalia’s subsidiary, led all European airlines with nearly 95% of its flights arriving within 15 minutes of their schedule.

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Airline On-Time Arrival Performance %Air One 94.85%

Rossiya 94.23%

KLM Cityhopper 93.62%

Tarom 93.51%

Tyrolean Airways 92.94%

Eurowings 92.43%

Brit Air 92.15%

Air Berlin 90.59%

Flybe 90.45%

Air Portugal 90.43%


Asian Airlines: Top On-Time Arrival Performance

Japanese airlines demonstrated their resilience in March. Not earthquake, nor tsunami, nor nuclear disaster will keep them from getting planes into the air on time. Four of the top five performers among Asian airlines we tracked in March were Japanese. India’s Indigo Airlines had the second best numbers. The average on-time performance rating among the 21 airlines we analyzed for this report was 78.91%.

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Airline On-Time Arrival Performance %

Japan Transocean 91.73%

Indigo Airlines 89.65%

ANA 88.43%

ANA Wings 87.42%

J-Air 87.07%

Note: Our coverage of Asian carriers is limited due to a lack of available data sources. We listed only those carriers for which we have statistically significant gate departure and arrival information. If you don’t see your airline listed here or would like to see a more complete representation of your data, please contact [email protected] to arrange for a data exchange.


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Top 50 World Airports: March 2011 Departure Performance

Congratulations to London’s Stansted Airport for outperforming the rest of the world’s busiest airports in March. Japanese disaster combined to knock Tokyo and Narita Airport out of the top 10 for the first time in many months. Tokyo’s other major airport, Haneda, with its higher percentage of domestic flghts managed to continue operations at an amazingly high level with a 91% on-time departure record. The average on-time departure performance among the top 50 airports was 74.07%, up from 72.09% in February and from 69.34& in January.

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Airport On-Time Departure Performance %STN London, GB 92.10%

NRT Tokyo, JP 91.02%ORY Paris, FR 87.77%

AMS Amsterdam, NL 87.38%MUC Munich, DE 86.05%IST Istanbul, TR 85.68%CGK Jakarta, ID 84.58%TPE Taipei, TW 84.40%CDG Paris, FR 82.86%

MEX Mexico City, MX 82.84%


N. American Airports: March 2011 Departure Performance Scorecard

Memphis turned in the best on-time departure performance among the top 40 North American airports in March posting an 84.97% on-time departure mark against the average for the month on 75.45%.

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Airport On-Time Departure Performance %MEM Memphis, TN 84.97%

SLC Salt Lake City, UT 83.24%

MEX Mexico City, MX 82.84%

CLT Charlotte, NC 82.71%

DCA Washington, DC 82.67%

SEA Seattle, WA 82.61%

IAD Washington, DC 82.59%

MSP Minneapolis, MN 82.44%

CVG Cincinnati, OH 82.15%

PDX Portland, OR 81.83%


N. American Airports with Low Departure Performance

The following airports had the lowest on-time departure performance in the category in March.

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Airport On-Time Departure Performance %

LGA New York, NY 69.19%

JFK New York, NY 68.81%

ORD O’Hare, IL 66.49%

DFW Dallas, TX 58.46%

MIA Miami, FL 49.95%


About FlightStats On-Time Performance ReportsThese on-time performance reports for worldwide carriers and airports are generated from FlightStats Analytics. We track the performance of over 150,000 flights per day, archive the data for analysis and publication, and provide real time flight status to millions of travelers world wide each day.

In contrast to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) on on-time performance which are filed with the BTS by the largest US airlines, we gather it ourselves in real time and archive the data for analysis and reporting. This enables us to cover a larger list of airlines and airports and to issue reports within a few days of the end of the reporting month.

• BTS reports only on US airlines and airports. FlightStats gathers data world-wide • BTS airline performance reports are based upon data reported by 19 US airlines, 18 of which constitute

1% or more of total domestic scheduled-service passenger revenues. FlightStats reports cover 45 US airlines and are based upon data gather in real time from a variety of sources including the US FAA, airlines reservation systems, direct feeds from airlines and airports.

• BTS US airport performance reports are based upon information provided by the 32 U.S. airports that account for at least 1 percent of the nation's total domestic scheduled-service passenger enplanements. FlightStats equivalent reports are based upon archived real-time data covering the top 40 (i.e. busiest) North American airports.

• Both BTS and FlightStats reports include information on the percentage of flights that arrived on time, were cancelled, were diverted. FlightStats breaks down the delays into 3 categories - late (15-29 minutes late at the gate), very late (30-44 minutes), and excessive (> 44 minutes). BTS simply reports that a flight is late (15 minutes or more).

• FlightStats has more current data based upon real-time reporting. BTS data is published approximately 5 weeks after the close of a month as it relies on the airlines to file historical reports.

• BTS also reports on baggage issues, passenger numbers, customer complaints and the causes of flight delays. FlightStats does not.

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2010 Airport On-time Performance Awards Winners

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA), Portland International Airport (PDX), Oslo Airport (OSL), Itami

Airport (ITM), Keahole Airport (KOA), Sola Airport (SVG), Miyazaki Airport (KMI) demonstrates leadership in on-time airport performance.

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