After a four-month streak of month-to-month enhancements, the typical on-time efficiency for North American carriers in December dropped to 79.1 p.c in contrast with November’s 81.9 p.c, in line with Cirium’s newest report.
Each service’s rating declined in December from the month earlier than. Delta in December as soon as once more took the highest spot with an on-time rating of 89.6 p.c and was adopted by United Airways (85.8 p.c) and American Airways (84.3 p.c). (Delta additionally was Cirium’s most on-time North American airline for 2023 at 84.7 p.c.)
JetBlue had the steepest decline at 6 proportion factors to 71 p.c. Spirit slipped the least with a 1.3 percentage-point drop to 73.8 p.c.
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Delta additionally took the highest spot on the listing of most on-time international carriers. United got here in third with American at fourth. No different North American service landed within the international prime 10.
North American airways in December canceled almost 4,750 flights, up about 79 p.c month over month. The highest three U.S. carriers, together with Southwest Airways and Alaska Airways, every had completion components above 99 p.c for December, led by American at almost 99.9 p.c, in line with Cirium.
A flight is taken into account on time if the plane arrives on the gate inside quarter-hour of the scheduled arrival time.
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