williwaw

From Dow Jones:

Alaska Air had worst on-time performance in February, Hawaiian had the best--DOT

Alaska Air Group Inc. (ALK) had the worst one-time performance in February among reporting marketing carriers, while Hawaiian Holdings Inc. (HA) had the best, according to the Department of Transportation's "Air Travel Consumer Report" (ATCR). The average on-time arrival rate for the month was 73.8%, while Alaska Air came in at 66.9%, and JetBlue Airways Group Corp. (JBLU) was second worst at 70.0%. Hawaiian came in at 81.7% and Delta Air Lines Inc. (DAL) came in second at 77.9%. Alaska also had the highest flight cancellation rate at 5.8%, well above the average rate of 3.1%, and at least the 3 longest tarmac delays for domestic flights, the ATCR said. Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV) had the second-highest cancellation rate at 4.6%, while Hawaiian had the lowest cancellation rate at 0.6% and Frontier Airlines was second lowest at 1.2%. Alaska Air's stock has edged up 1.4% year to date through Thursday, while Hawaiian shares have rallied 15.3%, the NYSE Arca Airline Index has gained 14.3% and the S&P 500 has climbed 15.9%.

ucdtim17

Do the planned diversions to SJC/OAK count as on time for these purposes? Or as a cancellation, or something else? If they count as on times, the numbers for AS could be a lot worse.

VegasGambler

Wow. Southwest and AA are cancelling flights like crazy because of the 737 Max fiasco and AS (who has none of these planes) still managed a higher cancellation rate? That is impressive. AA has something like 7% of its fleet grounded.

Edit: whoops, never mind, I just realized that this data is for Feb, not march.

JacksonFlyer

I think this was in February before the MAX was grounded by the FAA.....but now I see you caught that.

eddiehuang97

VegasGambler

Does it really take DOT 7 weeks to compile these stats? That seems long even by government standards.

sltlyamusd

On-time means the flight arrived at its scheduled destination no more than 14 minutes behind schedule. So, delays, unplanned diversions, planned diversions, cancellations etc. are all counted as "not on-time." If you look at AS arrivals into SFO for February, 1.4% show as diverted, whereas zero flights into SJC were diverted. SFO and SEA both had a lot of bad weather (by local standards) during February. Not an excuse, but just an observation.

While February was bad, it should be mentioned that Alaska's on-time performance for all of 2018 was 82.7%, which put them squarely in second place among major carriers (Delta was first). This considers mainline+regional flights.

mikexner

3Cforme

The MAX grounding at American takes out of service 24 of 963 active mainline aircraft. That's not including the 595 aircraft flown as American Eagle by wholly-owned Envoy or contract carriers.

https://www.planespotters.net/airline/American-Airlines

VegasGambler

I didn't realize that these stats only covered mainline.