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Airline and Airport On-time Performance - June 2009 Report
July 4, 2009
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In this issue .....
US Carriers - June 2009 Numbers
Performance Comparison at the World's 50 busiest airports
North American Airport Performance
European Airline Performance Report
About These Reports
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US Carriers - June 2009 Numbers
Despite dropping over 4 percentage points from their May performance, US Airlines kept their streak alive and posted better numbers for June 2009 than for June 2008 and 2007.



Once again, the top five US airlines for on-time performance in June were small and mid-sized carriers:

  • Hawaiian Airlines - 93.27%
  • Horizon Air - 88.24%
  • Mesaba Aviation - 87.53%
  • Freedom Airlines - 87.04%
  • Chataqua - 84.07

Continental came in 13th overall but topped the on-time performance list among the major carriers in June with 79.68% of its flights arriving on time. American is still struggling and brought in just 2/3 of its flights on time. The rest of the majors' performance were largely indistiguishable.

  • Continental - 79.68%
  • Southwest - 78.73%
  • US Airways - 77.52%
  • Northwest - 75.65%
  • Delta - 75.23%
  • United - 72.9%
  • American - 66.94%

Combining the numbers for Delta and Northwest yields an on-time performance percentage of 79.65% - about average for all carriers for the month.

American joined small carriers among the five worst performers in June:

  • Great Lakes 67.81%
  • Colgan - 67.44%
  • American 66.94%
  • Comair - 59.74%
  • Air Wisconsin - 59%

Here are links to this month's detailed US airline reports:
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Top 50 World Airports -
June 2009 Arrival Performance
Tokyo Haneda (HND) topped the list of the world's busiest airports with over 93% of its flights arriving on time.

  • Tokyo Haneda (HND) - 93.68%
  • Houston (IAH) - 88.64%
  • Amsterdam Schipol (AMS) - 87.93%
  • Seoul (ICN) - 86.28%
  • Kuala Lampur (KUL) - 85.983%

US airports occupied six of the bottom ten slots. But Istanbul (IST) turned in the worst performance at 57.34% against an average for the top 50 of 73.8%:

  • Beijing (PEK)- 67.83% on-time arrivals
  • Philadelphia (PHL) - 64.97%
  • New York (JFK) - 64.48%
  • Miami (MIA) - 64.4%
  • Newark (EWR) - 63.92%
  • London (STN) - 63.21%
  • Guangzhou (CAN) - 62.69%
  • Boston (BOS) - 60.33%
  • New York (LGA) - 58.04%
  • Istanbul, TR (IST) - 57.34%


Download the reports for the ACI/IATA top 50 World Airports here:
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North American Airports - June 2009 Arrival Performance Report
Houston (IAH) owned the top position on the on-time arrival performance list for the top 40 North American airports:

  1. Houston (IAH) - 88.64%
  2. Vancouver BC (YVR) - 85.59%
  3. Portland (PDX) - 83.32%
  4. Cincinnati (CVG) - 82.92%
  5. Oakland (OAK) - 82.56%

The average for the top 40 North American airports was a 75.41% on-time arrival performance for the month.

New York La Guardia (LGA) once again had the worst on-time performance among the 40 busiest North American airports in June with only 58% of its flights arriving on time and over 19% of its arrivals delayed by 45 minutes or more.

The bottom five North American airports in May were:

36. New York (JFK) - 64.48%
37. Miami (MIA) - 64.4%
38. Newark (EWR) - 63.92%
39. Boston (BOS) - 60.33%
40. New York (LGA) - 58.04%

Download the reports on North American airport arrival performance here:
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European Carriers - June 2009 Arrival Numbers
No surprise in June that Binter Canarias (the Hawaiian Airlines of Europe) topped the list of European carriers with 97.63% of its flights arriving within 15 minutes of published schedules against an average for the group of 77.71%. Other top performers included:

  • VLM Airlines - 95.62%
  • KLM Cityhopper - 93.22%
  • SAS Norway - 91.84
  • Wideroes - 89.91%
  • KLM - 89.85%
  • SAS - 88.67%


The bottom five airlines for on-time arrivals including TAP, Turkish Airlines, Air One, Meridiana, and Olympic Airlines.

Download the report on European carrier arrival performance here:
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About These Reports
These 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 other words, no we don't have someone at the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) leaking information to us. We gather it ourselves in real time and archive the data for analysis and reporting.

The BTS numbers are usually published a month later than ours, are based upon different data gathering techniques, and built from slightly different data sets.

  • 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.

The articles in this issue include links to reports you can download with detailed performance data on the world's 50 busiest airports, US major airline performance, North American airport performance and European carrier performance.

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