according to FlightStats.
North American carriers on average got 80 percent of flights to the gate within
15 minutes of their scheduled arrival times last month. Among the 13 largest
carriers, Delta Air Lines (83.5 percent), Virgin America (81.4 percent),
American Airlines (80.5 percent) and Southwest Airlines (80.3 percent) also had
above-average on-time rates. Alaska Airlines (80 percent), United Airlines
(79.2 percent), US Airways (78.9 percent), Frontier Airlines (78.3 percent),
Air Canada (77 percent), JetBlue Airways (75.3 percent), Allegiant Air (67.3
percent) and Spirit Airlines (65.9 percent) had below-average performance.
Correction, Sept. 11: An earlier version of
this report relayed FlightStats’ July on-time arrival rates rather than its
August data.