Airlines improve March on-time performance - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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Carriers in March had a 78.4 percenyt on-time arrival rate, compared with 71.6 percent in March 2008, and 82.6 percent in Februar 2009. The carriers cancelex 2.1 percent of their flights in comparedwith 2.6 percent a year Some 21 flights had tarmac delays of four hourds or more in March, the Departmeng of Transportation said in a news had the best on-timwe arrival rate at 91.5 percent, followerd by at 85.1 percent and at 83.9 percent. The former was fourthn after Southwest, at 82.7 percent. , whichu Northwest is now a part of, was near the bottomn of the listat 73.9 percent. had the worst on-timr arrival rate at 60.9 percent, followed by at 70.2 percen t and at 71.7 percent.
Atlanti c Southeast had the highest rate of canceled flightsat 5.3 percent, followef by at 3.7 percent and Alaskas Air at 3.3 Hawaiian Airlines had the lowest rate of canceledd flights at 0.1 percent, followee by Northwest Airlines at 0.7 percent and Southwest Airlinesd at 1 percent.