1. The Airline Report
January 2017

2. 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

3. BUSIEST Travel DAYs
Flight distributions across the month

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

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

6. 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

7. ROUTES
Which routes were the most popular?

8. 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

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

10. 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

11. 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

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

14. 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

15. 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)

16. 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