Canadian airlines outdo U.S. rival's on-time performance
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01 6th, 2009 in
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The U.S. Department of Transportation released its annual Air Travel Consumer Report last week, which tracks the on-time performance and the number of consumer complaints filed against U.S. airlines at North American airports.
While the U.S. Government mandates that the on-time performance of its airlines be reported and released to the public, no such rules apply to Canadian carriers.
This got us wondering how the country’s largest carriers stacked up against their U.S. competitors. While the Canadian government doesn’t track the on-time performance of Canadian carriers across North America, our friends at Flightstats.com do.
Air Canada’s mainline, which has the largest international network, including the troubled New York-area airports, turned in the worst on-time performance with only 70.91% of its flights arriving on-time at North American airports last year, down from 75% in 2006, according to Flightstats.
If you want them to mean something, find out why those flights are late -- was it due to weather? Winds? Was everyone else affected??? Or was it due to a plane breakdown?
These numbers are very meaningful as they cover a 2 month period, not just a week that happened to have some bad weather. The biggest problem for these flights are the seasonal winds which are not properly accounted for in the schedules.
There is no need to clear immigration for any connections at HKG.
There is no need to clear immigration for the vast majority of connections at NRT.
If you want them to mean something, find out why those flights are late -- was it due to weather? Winds? Was everyone else affected??? Or was it due to a plane breakdown?
...... no such rules apply to Canadian carriers....
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Oh! :eek: Apparently having only 1.5 airlines doesn't really help Canada in on-time ratings either!
People don't think of that stuff.
Anyone who books a tight connecting flight after a 9+ hour flight to a country where they will need to clear immigration, with no backup plan, is going to get what they are going to get.
From Flightstats.com.
AC YYZ>HKG 28%
CX YYZ>HKG 48%
UA ORD>HKG 56%
For the record I insist on at least a 2 hour connection time on my trips to Asia.
AC15 YYZ>HKG 17/61 ontime = 28%
AC1 YYZ>NRT 23/42 ontime =55%
AC31 YYZ>PEK 20/35 ontime =57%
AC87 YYZ>PVG 10/27 ontime =37%
TOTALS 70/165 ontime=42%
Good luck to anyone with a tight connection on any of these flights!
There is absolutely no context to those numbers. That's the point.
For example, did UA, AA, NW have problems on the pacific routes as well on all those days AC was running late?
It's not always black and white.
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