Isles rank second in latest on-time report
CRAIG T. KOJIMA / 2017
The Hawaiian Airlines logo on a Boeing 717 plane at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in 2017.
U.S. airlines started the year showing a slight improvement in keeping flights on time.
The Transportation Department said today that 79.6 percent of flights in January arrived within 14 minutes of schedule, compared with 76 percent in the same month last year.
But January’s performance was worse than December, when 80.3 percent of flights arrived on time.
Alaska Airlines posted the best on-time rating at 88.9 percent, while JetBlue Airways was last at 65.8 percent. Hawaiian Airlines ranked second, at 88.3 percent.
Airlines canceled 3 percent of domestic flights in January, up from 2 percent a year earlier and 1.2 percent in December.
The monthly Transportation Department report has been expanded to cover 18 airlines including several smaller ones such as Allegiant Air.
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Here are the government’s rankings of the leading U.S. airlines and their on-time performance for January. The federal government counts a flight as on time if it arrives no more than 14 minutes behind schedule.
1. Alaska Airlines, 88.9 percent
2. Hawaiian Airlines, 88.3 percent
3. United Airlines, 84.7 percent
4. Delta Air Lines 84.3 percent
5. Spirit Airlines, 82.9 percent
6. Virgin America, 82.5 percent
7. American Airlines, 82.5 percent
8. Southwest Airlines, 81.8 percent
9. Allegiant Air, 78.6 percent
10. Mesa Airlines, 76.9 percent
11. Endeavor Air, 76.5 percent
12. Republic Airlines, 76.2 percent
13. SkyWest Airlines, 75.3 percent
14. Frontier Airlines, 74.9 percent
15. Envoy Air, 74.7 percent
16. ExpressJet, 74.6 percent
17. PSA, 70.2 percent
18. JetBlue Airways, 65.8 percent
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Source: U.S. Department of Transportation
