FlightStats 2 11 On-time Performance Report

Airline and Airport On-Time Performance February 2011 Report

Monday, March 7, 2011

Cancellations Mount as a Rough Winter Continues

Add nearly 38,000 more cancelled flights to the 33,000 cancellations in January, and more than 29,000 December cancellations by the top 40 airlines in North America.

- On-time arrival performance for the remaining operated flights by these carriers was 74.46%, up from 71.47% in January and 67.94% in December.

- Cancellations continue to significantly outpace those of the winter of

2009-10 in both percentage terms and real numbers. - February 2010 and February 2011 both had over 5% of scheduled

flights cancelled.

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N. American Top Performing Airlines in FebruaryDespite a series of late winter storms, eleven airlines managed to top

the 80% on-time arrival performance mark.

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Airline On-Time Arrival Performance %

Hawaiian Airlines 91.05%

Mesa Airlines 85.28%

Airtran Airways 84.34%

Alaska Airlines 82.70%

United Airlines 82.30%

US Airways 82.74%

Mesaba Aviation 80.93%

PSA Airlines 80.65%

Delta Air Lines 80.59%

Porter Airlines 80.31%


How N. American Major Airlines Compared In February

*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

Alaska Airlines 82.70% 4

United Airlines 82.30% 5

US Airways 81.74% 6

Delta 80.59% 9

Continental Airlines 80.24% 11

American Airlines 76.35% 19

Jet Blue 69.79% 30

Southwest Airlines* 64.14% 39

Air Canada 53.90% 42


European Airlines: Top On-Time Performance

Smaller, regional airlines continued to perform best again for February. Germanwings turned in an outstanding performance for the month with nearly 99% on time arrivals.

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Airline On-Time Arrival Performance %Germanwings 98.87%

Air One 95.48%

NAYSA 92.31%

Rossiya 91.42%

Tyrolean Airways 90.17%

Eurowings 89.60%

Transvania 89.27%

Brit Air 89.02%

Air Berlin 88.76%

Swiss European 88.55%


Asian Airlines: Top On-Time Arrival Performance

The top five performers among Asian airlines we tracked in February were all Japanese and all delivered more than 90% of their flights to the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled arrival time. The average on time performance rating among the 20 airlines we analyzed for this report was 77.99%.

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Airline On-Time Arrival Performance %

J-Air 94.73%

Japan Transocean 92.64%

ANA 91.51%

JAL Express 91.31%

ANA Wings 90.45%

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: February 2011 Departure Performance

Harsh winter weather kept all US airports except Charlotte (CLT) out of the top 10.

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Airport On-Time Departure Performance %HND Tokyo, JP 93.58%CGK Jakarta, ID 93.07%STN London, GB 90.66%IST Istanbul, TR 86.09%ORY Paris, FR 85.03%

KUL Kuala Lumpur, MY 84.94%FCO Rome, IT 83.79%NRT Tokyo, JP 83.52%

CLT Charlotte, NC 83.06%ICN Seoul, KR 82.83%


N. American Airports: February 2011 Departure Performance Scorecard

Charlotte turned in the best on time departure performance among the top 40 North American airports in February posting an 83.06% on time departure mark against the 73.51% average for the month.

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Airport On-Time Departure Performance %CLT Charlotte, NC 83.06%

SLC Salt Lake City, UT 82.89%

MEX Mexico City, MX 82.80%

DCA Washington, DC 82.32%

MEM Memphis, TN 82.32%

IAH Houston, TX 81.74%

TPA Tampa, FL 81.46%

ATL Atlanta, GA 81.23%

SEA Seattle, WA 81.22%

PDX Portland, OR 81.20%


N. American Airports with Low Departure Performance

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

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Airport On-Time Departure Performance %

YYZ Toronto, ON 66.41%

JFK New York, NY 66.32%

ORD O’Hare, IL 56.88%

MIA Miami, FL 54.84%

DFW Dallas, TX 47.72%


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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