das126

Why is Colgan Air's operation out of EWR having so much trouble with on-time performance?

Here is (I think) every flight from today, 4/21. I don't believe there were any weather or ATC issues today, as ExpressJet flights seemed to do fine all day.

EWR-BDL
CO3247 - 2hr late
CO3231 - 1hr15min late

BDL-EWR
CO3207 - 10min early
CO3263 - 1hr30min late

EWR-BWI
CO3211 - 30min late
CO3268 - 30min late
CO3213 - 30min late
CO3215 - 1hr late

BWI-EWR
CO3210 - 15min early
CO3212 - 1hr30min late
CO3270 - 45min late
CO3216 - 15min late

EWR-ALB
CO3201 - 1hr30min late
CO3203 - 1hr30min late

ALB-EWR
CO3200 - 10min early
CO3202 - 1hr30min late

EWR-BUF
CO3209 - 45min late

BUF-EWR
CO3208 - 45min late

EWR-ROC
CO3260 - ontime

ROC-EWR
CO3261 - 5min late

EWR-RDU
CO3250 - 20min late
CO3252 - 10min late
CO3205 - 1hr late

RDU-EWR
CO3251 - 20min late
CO3253 - 30min late
CO3206 - 1hr late

EWR-PIT
CO3230 - 10min early
CO3232 - ontime
CO3236 - 45min late
CO3238 - 1hr30min late
CO3240 - 1hr15min late

PIT-EWR
CO3204 - ontime
CO3233 - 5min late
CO3235 - 10min early
CO3239 - 45min late
CO3241 - 1hr30min late

EWR-PVD
CO3242 - 10min early
CO3244 - 2hr late

PVD-EWR
CO3243 - ontime
CO3245 - 1hr45min late

EWR-ORF
CO3220 - 15min late
CO3222 - 1hr late
CO3224 - 1hr late
CO3228 - 1hr late

ORF-EWR
CO3221 - 10min early
CO3223 - 20min late
CO3225 - 45min late
CO3227 - 1hr10min late

And it's not just today, it's every day. I'm a n00b here, so maybe this is no big deal but... Anyone knowledgeable about what the excuse is for this?

ContinentalFan

My guess is that it's all tied into the congestion at EWR; the larger equipment probably gets priority over Colgan's props.

yonajon

I've flown EWR-BDL and BDL-EWR many times - never been on-time (not by a long shot).

I think it's correct that they're deprioritized.

Welcome to FT

ContinentalFan

I missed that--welcome to FT!

weapon-x

I made my inaugural Q400/Colgan flights this weekend--EWR-PIT and PIT-EWR--massively delayed on taxi both ways (the return even earned us a trip to the penalty box at PIT - didn't know this actually *happened*!).

I've done this trip on XE plenty of times in the past few years, and sure, there were occasional delays (and I flew the NYC-PIT-NYC route on US for many years before that, so I know better than to complain about on-time performance). But this time I just felt unlucky!

sbm12

In the last quarterly conf call I believe they noted that there are some issues getting the Q400s up to performing the way they want them to be from a maintenance, but nothing regarding prioritization for slots. The model was brought into the fleet with the assumption and promise that it would reduce delays and other issues based on having more options to avoid the NYC ATC issues. That clearly isn't the case thus far.

Speaking of penalty box planes in random places, I saw a US plane stuck in the penalty box at JAX yesterday. Very strange to see that there.