Unfriendly skies over Newark Liberty Airport
It's no secret that Newark Liberty Airport has one of the worst on-time arrival/departure records in the country. According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 28 percent of all departures from Newark were at least 15 minutes late between August 2005 and July 2006. Only Chicago's O'Hare was as bad.
But an analysis in the November Travel & Leisure magazine shows that Newark Liberty's on-time departure record is far worse during peak hours - typically between 7 and 10 p.m. That's true, of course, at most airports. But between 7 and 8 p.m., 53 percent of all flights out of Newark are late, far and away the worst record in the nation.
A more detailed analysis of the worst carrier/airport combinations in the nation ranked three airlines flying out of Newark in the Top (Bottom) 10: ExpressJet (45.6 percent late departures), Air-Tran (39.3 percent) and JetBlue (33.0 percent).
An analysis of the top 10 most-delayed flights listed nine that originated from or ended at Newark. Heading the list was American Eagle's flight 4659 from Newark to Raleigh-Durham. Nearly three of every four flights was late, with an average delay of 48.9 minutes.
Other Newark flights in which at least 62 percent are late, with average delays of 43 to 63 minutes, were Continental flights to Boston Logan and from Atlanta, Chicago O'Hare and Washington Reagan. Continental flight 1152 from Atlanta arrived late 68. 2 percent of the time, with an average delay of 55.9 minutes.
Moral of the story: Study up before booking a flight: http://www.bts.gov/
But an analysis in the November Travel & Leisure magazine shows that Newark Liberty's on-time departure record is far worse during peak hours - typically between 7 and 10 p.m. That's true, of course, at most airports. But between 7 and 8 p.m., 53 percent of all flights out of Newark are late, far and away the worst record in the nation.
A more detailed analysis of the worst carrier/airport combinations in the nation ranked three airlines flying out of Newark in the Top (Bottom) 10: ExpressJet (45.6 percent late departures), Air-Tran (39.3 percent) and JetBlue (33.0 percent).
An analysis of the top 10 most-delayed flights listed nine that originated from or ended at Newark. Heading the list was American Eagle's flight 4659 from Newark to Raleigh-Durham. Nearly three of every four flights was late, with an average delay of 48.9 minutes.
Other Newark flights in which at least 62 percent are late, with average delays of 43 to 63 minutes, were Continental flights to Boston Logan and from Atlanta, Chicago O'Hare and Washington Reagan. Continental flight 1152 from Atlanta arrived late 68. 2 percent of the time, with an average delay of 55.9 minutes.
Moral of the story: Study up before booking a flight: http://www.bts.gov/
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