Flying to or from NYC? Expect delays
An astounding 41 of the US’s 50 tardiest flights started or ended near New York, according to data compiled by the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics for Bloomberg News.
Those flights started or ended at LaGuardia, Kennedy (JFK) and Newark.
“The figures offer the first full-year glimpse at delays on individual routes in the biggest US aviation market and the ripple effect across the nation,” Bloomberg said.
The statistics agency ranked almost 3,400 flights based on how often they arrived late, which is defined as 15 minutes or more beyond schedule.
“It’s part of the cost of doing business in the chronically congested New York area,” said Michael Derchin, a CRT Capital Group LLC analyst.
New York-area flights make up 12 percent of operations at the 35 largest airports while accounting for almost half the delays, according to the Air Transport Association.
The 50 most-delayed flights in 2009 were an average of 74 minutes late, and 14 had longer delays than their average time in the air, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, which hadn’t previously released annual results.
Newark posted the worst on-time arrival rate among the biggest US airports last year, at 66 percent, government figures show. LaGuardia was second-worst with 69 percent.
The most-delayed flight was a trip from Washington Dulles to Kennedy on Comair that was late 85 percent of the time, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. It was airborne for 62 minutes on average, and late by 65 minutes.
Industry-wide delays may have cost US. carriers as much as USD$17 billion in 2009, including spending on wasted fuel and crew pay, the Washington-based trade group said.
Carriers affected most by New York tie-ups include Delta Air Lines Inc., American Airlines, Continental and JetBlue.
New York-area delays reinforce the need to “modernize the nation’s antiquated air-traffic control system,” said Julie King, a spokeswoman for Houston-based Continental.
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