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UA-NYC
If this post (from JoeSentMe.com) is true (and it sure sounds realistic), what we thought was poor in May turns to downright ugly for July:
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/viewfr...ines/#comments
The changes aren’t working: More than one in three mainline United flights in July ran late. The worst-in-the-nation airline ran up an on-time rating of just 65.7 percent. That’s nearly 15 points below Delta Air Lines, the best-performing legacy carrier. It’s also ten points below American Airlines.
United also cancelled nearly 1,200 flights in July, three times the number dumped by Delta and more than double the cancel rate at American. United’s 20,000 delays in July are nearly double the rate run up by American and a third higher than Delta.
I don't think the changes are going to bear any fruit until August or September at best - you can't make massive schedule changes overnight, and the weather is still a wild card.
My IAD-SFO flight on Thursday and SFO-IAD flight today are excellent examples. The Thursday flight was delayed for over two hours because the incoming 319 from ORD was cancelled, and while they had a 320 ready to go, they had no crew until another aircraft arrived. This morning at SFO, we left 30 mins late because the ground staff delivered the 757 to the gate from the hangar late, and when we arrived at IAD, massive thunderstorms put us in a 45 min holding pattern.