Average North American airline on-time performance improved by more than 5 percentage points for the second straight month, reaching 77.4 percent in September versus 72.1 percent in August, according to Cirium’s monthly report.
Every airline that made the report showed month-over-month on-time improvement, with Air Canada clocking the highest change at 60 percent, a 10.9 percentage-point gain. WestJet made the cut again after its absence in August with a 74.1 percent on-time performance. The report includes carriers that were in the top 20 percent in terms of flight frequency, total seats and available seat kilometers.
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Delta Air Lines (89.2 percent) retained the top spot, with United Airlines (86.9 percent) next, followed by Alaska Airlines (84 percent). The three largest U.S. carriers each made the global list of most on-time carriers with Delta third, United sixth and American Airlines ninth.
The report also showed year-over-year growth of 14.5 percent in the number of flights completed.
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