We have been tracking the US airline on-time performance since 2016. Here’s a different look at the data, with a focus on airports. The Top 25 are selected by the number of flights. The list presented is arrival delay minutes in descending order. What we see is...
Readers know airline time isn’t free. As a passenger, you pay with your time when a flight is delayed, with scant hope of compensation. That Contract of Carriage was not written for the benefit of the traveler. What happens when we look at time from the view...
(Co-authored with Timothy O’Neil-Dunne) Lost in the pandemic was a pause in an ongoing epidemic of almost Biblical proportions. We are talking about the US practice of bluffing true flight times AKA schedule padding. With the resurgence of planes in the sky as...
The latest counts show a rise in US air traffic numbers (see US Air Travel COVID Trackers) and that should be great news for the US airline industry. But perhaps less so if you’re a traveler. If you are planning air travel in the US, we invite you to try our...
We have the October and our models are being updated. Subscribers can access these throughout the day as they update. Most of these models are big and take hours to update and publish. Meanwhile some tidbits: Notice how the single-aisle fleet went through changes as...
