Column: LAX, SNA, ONT, BUR, LGB. The winner’s punctuality may surprise you.
Folks love to hate on LAX. It’s gargantuan. It’s clogged. It seems to be perpetually under construction.
All that practice apparently pays off for LAX. Among the big three, it had the highest percentage of on-time departures in 2022, at 80.8%, according toLumping big and small together, Palm Springs led everyone with 81.6% on-time departures. All of the locals regularly best national averages.Southwest sign shows canceled flights at LAX on Tuesday. {Photo by Gene Blevins/Contributing Photographer]
Electrician Ben Koucheli installs wiring for new lights on a runway at Ontario International Airport in Ontario on Thursday, July 15, 2021. The Ontario International Airport got a grant from the US Department of Transportation from federal American Rescue Plan of 2021 of $5 million for runway and taxiway rehabilitation.
Crew members and passengers enter the Long Beach Airport in Long Beach on Thursday, September 17, 2020. Six months after COVID-19 impacted airlines, travel appears to picking up. Crowds gathered around the Virgin Orbit, Cosmic Girl during the annual Long Beach Airport’s Festival of Flight which brought thousands of families to the airport, in Long Beach on Saturday, November. 2, 2019. For arrivals, though, LAX led the entire pack with 79.9% of flights landing on time.
But the published schedule is part of a contract with customers, and individual airlines and airports have a big role to play in on-time performance — or the lack of it,“They need to be asking themselves why another airline or airport with just as challenging an external environment can perform better than they do?” the firm said.
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