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The Bureau of Transportation Statistics released their August performance ratings for the airlines and the pathetic display of on-time arrivals continue; or should I say lack of on-time arrivals. 

Overall airlines faired horribly with an on-time rating of only 71.1% of flights arriving on time in the month of August.  Some of the worst airlines include Alaska Airlines (67.1% of flights arriving on time), United Airlines (66.2% of flights arriving on-time), and Atlantic Southeast Airlines (a feeder airline for Delta Air Lines) with only 55.0% of their flights arriving in time.

Atlantic Southeast Airlines had two flights (ASQ 4361 from Alexandria, LA to Atlanta and ASQ 4530 from Atlanta to Hilton Head, SC) were late 100 percent of the time.  ExpressJet Airlines flight 2185 from Nantucket to Newark did not fair any better with an on-time arrival rate of only 4 percent.  Yikes!  Take a sack lunch for these flights, you might be spending some time in the airport terminal for a while.   

If Delta is trying to turn around their airline, they better start with arriving at a person’s destination on time. 

On the flip side, Hawaiian carriers faired well with high on-time arrival rates, partly due to the weather and volume of traffic.  Frontier Airlines, Aloha Airlines and Southwest Airlines all had the lowest number of cancelled flights.

BTS.gov