Flt 435 From Fll To Phl

[deltawatch]

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The Department of Transportation confirmed Wednesday what many travelers already suspected: January was a tough month for getting places on time.

According to the latest data from the department's Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the nation's 19 biggest airlines managed to keep their schedules 71.4 percent of the time in January, slipping from 71.6 percent in December and 74.5 percent in January 2004.

Lousy weather accounted for a 14 percent jump in delays compared with December, a number that includes aviation system delays and rerouting of flights to skirt storms.

Of the reporting airlines, low-cost carrier JetBlue (JBLU: news, chart, profile) logged the lowest on-time-arrival rate in January at 63 percent.

At the opposite end of the scale, Hawaiian Airlines (HA: news, chart, profile) managed to get its passengers to their destinations on schedule 92.6 percent of the time.

The toughest route in January for on-time delivery was US Air's (UAIRQ: news, chart, profile) flight 435 from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to Philadelphia, which was late to the gate nearly 94 percent of the time.

Atlantic Southeast Airlines, a regional carrier for Delta Air Lines (DAL: news, chart, profile) , topped the list for cancelled flights at 8 percent, with Hawaiian Airlines posting a best-of-class 0.5 percent cancellation rate.

 

[BoeingBoy]

Well, we actually placed 1st in two catagories for Jan. - the one mentioned above (having the flight that was late the most) and having the most complaints (although in complaints per 100,000 passengers we were only next to last).

Jim

 

[EyeInTheSky]

The toughest route in January for on-time delivery was US Air's (UAIRQ: news, chart, profile) flight 435 from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to Philadelphia, which was late to the gate nearly 94 percent of the time.
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What a shander!! How can the flight possibly be on time?? I mean have you ever seen the numbers of verklempt ladies in gold lame shoes demanding a wheel chair?

 

[livingontheedge]

Eye In the Sky,

Thanks for the giggle.....I needed one today!

 

[N628AU]

Really kind of meanlingless. About a year or so ago, the darling of the industry, Southwest, had the worst flight, it ran DTW-MDW or vice versa and was late in excess 90% of the time as well.

 

[BoeingBoy]

Really kind of meanlingless.

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Especially not that flt 435 operates PHL-MCI at 10:00AM......

Jim

 

[mweiss]

Especially not that flt 435 operates PHL-MCI at 10:00AM......

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Didn't someone mention a while back that the flight numbers with horrid ontime numbers got changed frequently, so the bad numbers wouldn't show up on the CSRs?

 

[BoeingBoy]

Yes they did. Let me do a little research - we had 7 or 8 flights that were late over 80% of the time in Jan. Let's see if they've all changed.....

Jim

 

[BoeingBoy]

Flt 1697, PHL-MKE, late 80.65%, now operates BNA-PIT

Flt 1745, PWM-PHL, late 80.65%, now operates PHL-MCI

Flt 617, PHL-LAS, late 80.65%, still the same (but at 2055 instead of 1515 departure)

Flt 98, SJU-PHL, late 80.65%, still the same

Flt 21, PHL-LAX, late 80.65%, still the same (1025 instead of 0955)

Seems a mixed bag.....

Jim

 

[mweiss]

Five flights late with the same percentage to the hundredth? That seems rather odd.

 

[BoeingBoy]

They all operated daily (31 times for the month) and were late the same number of times.

Considering they all have one thing in common - PHL - it's not too surprising.

The average delay for each flight was where the difference was - lowest was 40 min and highest was 63 min.

Jim

 

[GroundedBoricua]

Flt 98, SJU-PHL, late 80.65%, still the same

Jim

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Only 80% of the time??? :blink: I would say more. Ihave ridden on this flight more times than any other flight and out of ten times its delayed nine. And we are talking real delays, so bad we talking about 6 to 8 hours late. You should also check flt. 1470 which is the originating (PHL-SJU) which is the reason why 98 is always late. And the sad thing to say is that this flight is flown on an A-330.

 

[ISP]

I took a 4 hour and 6 minute delay on flight 98 last Tuesday 2/22 - it was for MX. I've also had several delays of 2+ hours on this flight in the past year. Funny thing is that the plane is supposed to continue on to LGW... I wonder what percentage of the time they end up swapping A/C's for this flight.

 

[BoeingBoy]

The DOT only breaks out individual flights that are late 80% or more of the time, which are the ones I listed above. FWIW, those shown as late 80.65% were late 25 of the 31 days in Jan.

DOT does show how many flights an airline has that are late at least 70% of the time, but doesn't break out the individual flight numbers. For US, there were 37 of these. A flight that operates daily and was late 22 to 24 of the 31 days would make this catagory.

Finally, for those that may not be that familiar with the DOT criteria, a flight has to arrive over 14 minutes after schedule to be considered a "late" arrival.

Oh, one other thing (and really the last) - someone asked what is used as "arrival" time. While I certainly don't know what time the company reports, for flight crew pay they are using the time the aircraft comes to a stop at the gate. If they are using that same time for DOT reporting, any time you sit there waiting for the jetway to be pulled up doesn't affect the statistics. So if the flight parks at the gate 13 minutes behind schedule, but has to waid 5 minutes for the jetway to pull up and door to open, it is still considered "on time".

Jim