![]() But this rosy picture benefits from schedule padding -practice where airlines intentionally plan for flights to arrive late to improve on-time numbers. Glance quickly at the flight on time performance stats, and it appears that overall delays (blue bars) have remained relatively constant since 2010, with an uptick in 20. When you combine more passengers with checked bag fees that encourage customers to pack everything they can into their carry-on, it’s no surprise that running out of overhead bin space has become a common travel headache. This means that you’re much less likely to enjoy an empty middle seat than you were 10 years ago.īut there’s another insidious factor at play airlines have shrunk seats to increase passenger capacity. ![]() By the end of 2017, that number had risen to 84.57%. airlines filled 79.74% of their seat-miles on domestic flights. How do those numbers add up? On the benign end, airlines have gotten better about filling all of their seats. Since 2010, the number of flights available to air travelers has decreased by more than a million flights per year while the number of passengers has increased. If travel feels worse in 2018 than it has before, that’s not just your nostalgia speaking. Same with Baton Rouge, Louisiana and White Plains, New York both low-volume flight cities with some of the worst on-time performance numbers of all cities. For example, Fort Wayne, Indiana has less than 3% the flight volume that New York does, yet it's on-time arrival numbers are worse than the latter's. Meanwhile, the top city for departing and arriving on time is Anchorage, Alaska.Īlthough one would think flight volume would be closely related with late departures and arrivals, there are actually low-volume flight cities that still underperform. The worst city to travel to and from, in terms of both late departures and arrivals, is Newark, New Jersey, followed by New York and San Francisco. ![]() air travel, we went to the data and examined records for more than five million flights. To get a broader look at what’s going on with U.S. Just check the headlines: dragged passengers, exploding engines and big mergers.īut headlines only tell part of the story. air carriers have had a colorful few years. ![]()
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