#on-time

The US DoT published their November 2019 on-time data.  Here’s our updated model which can help you with your air travel planning.

America’s Top Twenty Delayed Airports

We got access to the September data and have updated several of our models that are driven by the On-Time data.  Here is another of our Top Twenty presentations, this time focusing on airport arrival delays.

The map shows where the top twenty are located, with the bubble size driven by the number of flights.  These are all the well established and known airports.  The bubble size though offers a…

Alaska struggles with its Airbus fleet

The August On-Time data has been published and we note that Alaska Airlines continues to struggle to integrate the Virgin America fleet.   The following table lays out the case, showing the fleet breakdown and average arrival delays in minutes.  The 2019 numbers are August YTD.

From the data its clear there seems to be a problem with the Airbus fleet and its on-time performance.  The A321neo…

Who is the slowest on them all?

The US DoT’s On-Time database is a great place to mine for information on how effective airlines are at managing their business.  After all, the core of what airline’s sell is their schedule.  Airlines require customers pay 100 cents on the dollar for something listed on the schedule.  But airlines have an amazing amount of ways to escape their obligation to deliver what they sold.  No other…

Air travel is all about schedule. Passengers buy on price, but they are aware that once they have made a booking, their planning focuses around that schedule.  Mess with the schedule and all kinds of messages and images from annoyed travelers hit social media.

In fairness, airlines build a schedule which they want to operate – time is money for them in a very real sense.  But there are exogenous…