Domestic airlines improve on-time arrival rate in May Posted on July 8th
NEW YORK - Domestic airlines improved their on-time arrival rates in May, although more than one in five flights still failed to get passengers to their destination as scheduled, according to government data released Monday.
A total of 21 percent of commercial flights in the U.S. arrived at least 15 minutes late, were canceled or diverted in May, according to the Transportation Department’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
That is down from more than 22 percent of late flights in the same month last year and in April 2008. The previous month’s figure was higher in part because AMR Corp.’s American Airlines, the nation’s largest carrier, was forced to ground thousands of flights amid tighter government scrutiny of maintenance issues.
For the third month in a row, American ranked last in on-time service. Passengers on just over two-thirds of the Fort Worth, Texas-based carrier’s flights — 67.3 percent — got to their destinations on time in May.
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