Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines ranked No. 3 for on-time arrivals in 2014, ahead of its major legacy carrier competitors.
About 83.7 percent of Delta’s flights arrived on time in 2014, according to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Only Hawaiian and Alaska Airlines, at No. 1 and No. 2, came in ahead of Delta.
Dallas-based Southwest, including the operations of merger partner AirTran Airways, came in at No. 10 of 12 carriers ranked. Southwest is the second-largest carrier at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
Delta also ranked No. 1 for on-time arrival performance for the month of December. But this year, storms in the Northeast and Midwest have hammered airlines’ operations in January and February, leading to thousands of flight cancellations and delays. The storm prompted Delta to cancel about 1,800 flights over just three days at the end of January.
