Flying for the holidays? This study shows how likely you are to be delayed or canceled

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Thanksgiving is astir upon us, and Christmas is close down that, which means successful the coming weeks, a LOT of radical volition beryllium traveling.

If you’re readying connected leaving location for the holidays, you’ve apt already got a program successful place.

If you’re flying, we’re guessing you already cognize what your program is. But a caller survey mightiness springiness you a amended thought of however smoothly that program volition really run.

You’ve apt heard successful caller months astir large cancellations and delays with antithetic airlines, but if you’re crossing your fingers that doesn’t hap to you, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics precocious released a survey successful which it shows airlines astir apt to look delays, based connected information from July 2019 to July 2021.

BTS considers a formation to beryllium delayed erstwhile it arrives 15 oregon much minutes aboriginal than scheduled.

Here’s the thing: There are immoderate airports where, for arrivals, you’re much apt to beryllium delayed than astatine others.

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The Family Vacation Guide broke down information from the BTS.

These airports are the ones that most often acquisition delayed arrivals:

RankAirport% connected time% delayed oregon canceled
1.Newark Liberty International75.71%24.29%
2.LaGuardia77.48%22.52%
3.Dallas/Fort Worth International79.23%20.77%
4.Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International79.78%20.22%
5.Palm Beach International80.34%19.66%
6.Boston Logan International and
Louis Armstrong New Orleans International
80.61%19.39%
7.Orlando International80.78%19.22%
8.San Antonio International80.97%19.03%
9.John F. Kennedy International and
San Francisco International
81.21%18.79%

The pursuing airports are the ones that least often acquisition delayed arrivals:

RankAirport% connected time% delayed oregon canceled
50.Daniel K Inouye InternationalHI88.31%11.69%
49.Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta InternationalGA87.32%12.68%
48.Minneapolis-St Paul International87.27%12.73%
47.Salt Lake City International87.22%12.78%
46.Detroit Metro Wayne County86.90%13.10%
45.Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International85.70%14.30%
44.Portland International85.23%14.77%
43.John Wayne Airport-Orange County85.12%14.88%
42.Sacramento International84.95%15.05%
41.Metropolitan Oakland International84.90%15.10%

And conscionable similar the survey focused connected airdrome reliability, it besides focused connected hose reliability.

According to the survey from the BTS, Allegiant Air topped the charts with the highest percent of delayed flights during the study, with a full of 27% of flights moving down schedule.

Below are the most often delayed oregon canceled flights.

RankAirline% connected time% precocious oregon canceled
1.Allegiant Air72.69%27.31%
2.JetBlue Airways76.80%23.20%
3.Frontier Airlines78.76%21.24%
4.Envoy Air80.48%19.52%
5.United Airlines81.40%18.60%
6.American Airlines81.45%18.55%
7.Spirit Airlines82.04%17.96%
8.Southwest Airlines83.03%16.97%
9.Alaska Airlines83.18%16.82%
10.SkyWest Airlines84.01%15.99%

Chances are, astir radical person already booked their trips, if they’re flying. In that case, it ne'er hurts to beryllium prepared. But for those who inactive request to bargain their flights, possibly this is simply a bully notation erstwhile booking.

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Click oregon pat here to sojourn the Bureau of Transportation’s website and entree the information recovered successful the study.

Graham Media Group 2021


About the Author:

Dawn is simply a Digital Content Editor who has been with Graham Media Group since April 2013. She graduated from Texas State University with a grade successful physics media.

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