The Airline Report January 2017

Summary Number of flights recorded: 450,017 (YoY increase of 0.94%) Busiest airport: ATL Most popular route: SFO – LAX Airline with the best on-time performance: Hawaiian Airlines Airline with the worst on-time performance: Virgin America Route to avoid: EWR – DSM

BUSIEST Travel DAYs Flight distributions across the month

Monday BLUES… Busiest days Monday Thursday Friday Slowest days Saturday Sunday Busiest single day Monday, January 2nd

AIRPORTS Which airports were the busiest? What were the most popular destinations?

The usual suspects… Busiest airport: Atlanta (ATL), with 60,273 recorded flights (13.39% of all flights) Busiest airport that is not an airline hub: Las Vegas (LAS) 11 airports with at least 10,000 departures 72 airports with at least 1,000 departures 10 airports averaged < 1 departure per day

ROUTES Which routes were the most popular?

La La LAND Most popular route: SFO  LAX (1286 flights) LAX featured in 8 of the top 10 routes Honolulu – Kahului was the 7th most popular route. Only route in top 10 to have only one carrier (Hawaiian Airlines) Weekend routes show mild skew towards “destination cities” such as Las Vegas and Orlando Atlanta had direct flights to 157 cities 66 airports have direct flights to just one city

AIRLINES Which airlines served the most airports? Which had the most routes?

LUV Southwest Airlines operated the most flights, roughly 24% of all flights American and Delta placed 2nd and 3rd Virgin America operated the fewest flights

ROUTES Southwest Airlines operated the most routes (1258) Hawaiian operated the fewest (50) Most carriers (7) on a single route: LAS – LAX – LAS 2554 routes are served by just one airline

On-TIME PERFORMANCE Which airlines had the fewest delays? Which had the most? How long were the delays?

DELAYS, DELAYS, DELAYS! 97,699 flights (22.22%) were delayed 65,532 flights were delayed by less than an hour 972 flights were delayed by more than 6 hours

THE GOOD and The BAD… 59% of flights arrived early 67% of all Delta flights arrived early United (64%); American (60%) Route with highest average delay: MEM – LGA (165 minutes, yikes!) Route with most number of delayed flights: LAX – SFO Routes with highest percentage of delays: EWR – DSM (81% of flights on this route were delayed)

01 02 03 04 And Finally… Want to minimize the chances of a delay? Pick a morning flight. 01 Flights departing between 5 and 6 AM had the least number of delays 02 Want to arrive early? Again, pick a morning flight. 03 Flights departing between 8 and 9 AM had the most number of early arrivals 04