{"id":197653,"date":"2025-04-14T22:33:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T20:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/?p=197653"},"modified":"2025-04-15T09:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T07:31:31","slug":"air-punctuality-2024-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/air-punctuality-2024-united-states","title":{"rendered":"Hawaiian and Delta Air Lines, the most punctual airlines in 2024 in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"

Le Federal Bureau of Transport Statistics<\/strong> recently published the results of the air punctuality within the United States<\/strong> for airline arrivals. This punctuality is slightly lower than in 2023<\/strong> since it was established at 77,75%<\/strong> compared with 78.34% in 2023. This is still better than in 2022, when the average punctuality was 76.72%. The punctuality of the top ten airlines has managed to exceed 80%<\/a> in 2020 and 2021, during the Covid period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Changes to airline rankings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As far as airlines are concerned, there were some changes in the rankings in 2024. The most punctual company was Hawaiian Airlines<\/a><\/strong> with a rate of 84,93%<\/strong> of flights arriving within 15 minutes of schedule. In 2023, the Western US carrier posted a punctuality rate of just 75n20%. As a result, Delta Air Lines, <\/strong>which was the most punctual in 2023, has slipped back to second place. Its punctuality has fallen from 83,52%<\/strong> 81.17% last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

United Airlines<\/strong> is in third place. Its average punctuality last year was 78,90%<\/strong> compared with 78.47% a year earlier. The carrier is being followed by the low-cost giant Southwest Airlines<\/a><\/strong>. Its punctuality rate reached 78,74%<\/strong> in 2024 compared with 77.25% in 2023. It should be noted that the punctuality ofAmerican Airlines<\/strong> deteriorated sharply between 2023 and 2024. The carrier will go from an average of 78.88% to 75,18%<\/strong>. The two companies with the worst performances in 2024 are JetBlue<\/strong> (73,58%<\/strong> flights per hour) and Frontier<\/strong> (68,76%<\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, this same airline recorded the highest cancellation rate in 2024. Frontier cancelled 2.57% of all its flights, followed by another low-cost carrier, Spirit, with a rate of 2.23%. The two carriers with the lowest cancellation rate in 2024 were Southwest Airlines (0.64%) and Alaska Airlines (0.73%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n