Originally Posted by
ashill
Cranky Flier has a
nice post on the impact of the move on on time performance. Bottom line: it helped everybody, but helped Delta the most. Delta (including Connection) improved from 64% to 82% on time comparing April 13-30 to June 1-18. Compass operating as Delta Connection improved from 55% to 78%. There are caveats, though.
At least operationally, this does look like it's working out to be a win-win-win-win-win (on the whole, statistically). ^
That article is pretty much fake news. It wasn't apples to apples. It was apples to peanuts. Runway reconstruction had 7R/25L shut down in the last half April - nearly the entire period measured - and was finished by the end of May. That particularly affected the southern terminal carriers as it necessitated many more operations on the north side and created that much more gate, ramp, and runway congestion all over. The data for April is worthless when determining any impact of the terminal move. We still don't know what the real effect is.
I'm disappointed that Cranky Flyer didn't retract the obvious mistake. I'm also not surprised that Delta ran with it and smugly posted it on their news feed without verifying the accuracy of the report.