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Summary of Airline On-Time Performance Year-to-date through March 2015

Year-to-date numbers for all years

Dataset Table:

Year Operations Late Arrivals Late Departures Cancelled Diverted Percent On-Time Arrivals Percent Late Arrivals Percent Late Departures Percent Cancelled Percent Diverted
1995 1,344,748 271,044 216,788 31,567 2,841 77.29 20.16 16.12 2.35 0.21
1996 1,317,058 335,850 277,462 53,105 4,249 70.15 25.50 21.07 4.03 0.32
1997 1,335,765 310,648 247,220 35,102 3,292 73.87 23.26 18.51 2.63 0.25
1998 1,324,536 287,713 226,215 34,211 3,439 75.44 21.72 17.08 2.58 0.26
1999 1,337,708 279,661 235,287 53,485 3,853 74.81 20.91 17.59 4.00 0.29
2000 1,397,920 293,509 239,243 49,940 3,392 75.19 21.00 17.11 3.57 0.24
2001 1,538,883 333,595 282,100 55,215 3,322 74.52 21.68 18.33 3.59 0.22
2002 1,283,767 220,546 179,197 17,657 1,664 81.32 17.18 13.96 1.38 0.13
2003 1,611,657 266,010 211,409 37,896 2,975 80.96 16.51 13.12 2.35 0.18
2004 1,739,275 346,784 275,535 34,695 2,638 77.92 19.94 15.84 1.99 0.15
2005 1,757,796 386,597 330,884 44,758 3,559 75.26 21.99 18.82 2.55 0.20
2006 1,717,751 366,806 325,911 28,666 3,732 76.76 21.35 18.97 1.67 0.22
2007 1,826,372 461,268 403,516 58,119 3,736 71.36 25.26 22.09 3.18 0.20
2008 1,791,091 462,414 401,637 54,087 4,606 70.91 25.82 22.42 3.02 0.26
2009 1,578,171 294,151 252,372 30,204 3,412 79.23 18.64 15.99 1.91 0.22
2010 1,554,341 292,483 272,114 47,364 3,864 77.89 18.82 17.51 3.05 0.25
2011 1,476,603 291,329 270,479 47,984 3,203 76.80 19.73 18.32 3.25 0.22
2012 1,472,587 216,371 207,395 17,175 2,702 83.96 14.69 14.08 1.17 0.18
2013 1,531,577 273,518 259,986 27,823 2,950 80.13 17.86 16.98 1.82 0.19
2014 1,406,309 323,731 316,447 64,419 3,486 72.15 23.02 22.50 4.58 0.25
2015 1,403,471 286,582 277,196 43,501 3,156 76.26 20.42 19.75 3.10 0.22

Dataset Excel:

Table1_23_0.xlsx (12.08 KB)

Notes:

The number of reporting carriers has varied as follows:
1995: 10
1996: 10
1997: 10
1998: 10
1999: 10
2000: 10 (11 starting in November when Aloha Airlines started reporting for the first time)
2001: 12 (11 starting in November when Aloha Airlines ceased reporting for the first time)
2002: 10
2003: 17 (18 starting in November when Hawaiian Airlines started reporting)
2004: 19
2005: 20 (19 through April after which Frontier Airlines started reporting)
2006: 20 (19 through March after which Aloha Airlines started reporting for the second time)
2007: 20
2008: 19 (20 through February after which Aloha Airlines ceased reporting)
2009: 19
2010: 18
2011: 16
2012: 15
2013: 16
2014: 14
2015: 14

Source:

Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Airline On-Time Data