Delta Air Lines’ on-time rate improved in the first half of 2026 — 78.7% to 79.3%, good for second...
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Airports don’t build buffers—airlines do. When we look at US airline schedule padding, we aren’t looking at a metric designed...
A Strategic Catch-22: Why JetBlue’s Post-Spirit Florida Expansion Exposes an Operational Vulnerability. Yesterday, we unpacked JetBlue’s 2Q26 financial results, revealing...
With April data published in the US DOT On-Time dataset, we want to introduce new metrics to help understand...
Airlines around the world pad their schedules, and US carriers are no exception. Scheduled flight times have a curious...
