Transportation
Alaska Airlines in August maintained the top spot in on-time performance rankings among the nine largest U.S. carriers,
according to
FlightStats. Its 90 percent on-time ratio was well ahead of second-place
AirTran (84 percent) and third-place Delta (83 percent). JetBlue again ranked
last among the group based on FlightStats data, with on-time performance of 65
percent.