From 4th to 8th in 2 short years - WSJ Airline Rankings
Seems that the statistics bear out my experience. United is just getting worse: https://graphics.wsj.com/dynamic-ins...bd82ecc1e.json
Not quite sure how you can mess up so badly that you drop below Spirit, Allegiant and Frontier. Really takes some doing. But hey, at least Oscar gets to watch "Rise of Skywalker"! |
Originally Posted by BlueHenFlyer
(Post 31953741)
Not quite sure how you can mess up so badly that you drop below Spirit, Allegiant and Frontier. Really takes some doing.
While some of these delays and cancellations are certainly UA's fault, a lot of them are the result of having hubs in ORD, IAH, SFO, and EWR. |
Yawn. It is what it is when you are held captive by weather.
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Hey, at least you won't get IDBd!!! :)
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Originally Posted by HNLbasedFlyer
(Post 31953761)
Yawn. It is what it is when you are held captive by weather.
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Originally Posted by iapetus
(Post 31953768)
Hey, at least you won't get IDBd!!! :)
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With Kirby moving to the helm its going to be 9 out of 9.
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Originally Posted by topman
(Post 31953793)
With Kirby moving to the helm its going to be 9 out of 9.
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Originally Posted by topman
(Post 31953783)
year round ?
When the weather is good - the rankings rise. When the weather is bad, they fall. When there is no airport construction - they rise. Airport construction - they fall. You can't fight air traffic control. In me experience, UA pushes hard to get flights out on time - there are multiple posts of people mad when planes not held for them on the push for on-time departures. |
Originally Posted by topman
(Post 31953783)
year round ?
I mean, even if it were only part of the year -- and it's not -- those statistics still count. Airlines that have hubs in cities with better weather are going to have better on-time statistics. And on-time statistics appear to count for about half of the categories in this list. Furthermore, ordinal rankings are nearly useless. For all we know, #1 - #8 are a virtual tie, with #9 being 500 points back. Or, #1 is way ahead, and #2-#9 are a virtual tie. There's no way to tell. |
Originally Posted by topman
(Post 31953783)
year round ?
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Originally Posted by topman
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year round ?
Originally Posted by findark
(Post 31953905)
Yes, SFO is foggy year round :D
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Originally Posted by narvik
(Post 31953788)
True, although -according to this list- Delta has them beat even in that category!
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Originally Posted by jsloan
(Post 31953752)
While some of these delays and cancellations are certainly UA's fault, a lot of them are the result of having hubs in ORD, IAH, SFO, and EWR. |
I might weight 2 hour tarmac delays and mishandled baggage more heavily than WSJ appears to. Cancelling my flight sounds better than sitting in the plane on the tarmac for two hours while the flight attendants refuse to serve anything because we could take off at any time.
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