ASA, Statistically the worst airline

[slackass]

Atlantic Southeast Airlines: Statistically, The US’s Worst Airline

November 11th, 2007 · No Comments

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics, a division of The Department of Transportation, tracks and publishes statistics regarding airline performance. The statistical set includes on-time performance data, mishandled bags statistics, information on flight cancellations and numbers of passengers denied boarding due to oversold flights. In almost all measured areas, Atlantic Southeast Airlines, a Delta Connection carrier with hubs in Atlanta and Cincinnati, ranks near or at the very bottom.
Atlantic Southeast Airlines flies a fleet of ATR-72 and CRJ series aircraft. ASA has a total of 159 aircraft flying to 146 destinations according to its web site. Atlantic Southeast Airlines has over 800 daily departures and 4,600 employees.
Atlantic Southeast fares poorly when examining the Bureau of Transportation’s Statistics on-time statistics. Less than two-thirds of ASA’s flights arrived on-time. The DOT defines on-time as arriving within 15 minutes of schedule. ASA’s 63.4% on-time average for September 2007 was last on the list of the country’s 20 largest airlines. The national average was 81.7% of flights arriving on-time in September. September’s performance has been typical of ASA as their year to date on-time performance is 63.6%
Jetblue, by comparison, had an 85.7% on-time rating for September, 2007, despite being hubbed at the hugely congested JFK. ASA is hubbed at the nations largest airport, Atlanta Hartsfield, which experiences 78.4% of flights arriving on-time as opposed to 75.4% of Kennedy’s flights arriving on-time.
Atlantic Southeast airlines had 11 flights in September 2007 that arrived late 80% of the time or more. Over half of these flights were late by an average of 50 minutes or more. Almost 3% of ASA’s flights were late 70% of the time or more. By comparison Delta Connection carrier Comair had just six scheduled flights that were late 70% of the time or more. Nine airlines had no flights that arrived late 70% of the time. There are a total of 54 flights scheduled in the country that arrive late more than 70% of the time, meaning just under half those flights were ASA flights.
ASA tied Pinnacle for the highest percentage of flight cancellations at 2.4%. Frontier had the lowest frequency of cancelled flights at 0.1%. The average among all carriers was 1.1% of flights cancelled.
Atlantic Southeast Airlines is not faring any better in the DOT’s baggage handling statistics. In September 2007, ASA 10.54 bags per 10,000 passengers, the highest in the country. The lowest rate of mishandled bags belonged to Airtran, which also hubs at Atlanta Hartsfield. It should be noted that ASA has shown great improvement from September 2006 when the mishandled an astounding 24.13 bags per 10,000 passengers enplaned. For the year ASA ranks 17th in mishandled bags out of 20 airlines.
ASA bumped a higher percentage of passengers than any other airline in the July - September 2007 period. 473 passengers were denied boarding, yielding a rate of 4.11 passengers per 10,000 being bumped. Comair and Deta ranked right above ASA with bump rates if 2.81 per 10,000 and 2.01 per 10,000 respectively.
A representative from ASA did return a request for comment on this story at the time this was published.

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[atlcrjdriver]

Just another reason for JA to do away with the ASA name. Delta has already taken the first step in this by removing ASA from all PAs and public sites to simply delta connection.

Also, from the ourASA home page, does anyone know what the third hub is that is presently marked as XXX? Listed are ALL ATL CVG and XXX

 

[McNugent]

I think removing the ASA specifics from everything isn't just happening to ASA. Been to CVG lately?? There isn't much Comair stuff around anymore, it all just says "Thanks for flying CVG". Delta is trying to make it seamless to the passengers as far as knowing who they are specifically flying on. Hence the jet bridges coming in ATL for the C concourse, and the new paint jobs. Notice how the airline specific logo is a lot smaller? That's for everyone, not just ASA.

As for the XXX, I noticed that too. So who knows something about the new base?

 

[Jmoney]

Xxx

The "XXX" refers to Vin Diesel.. I believe that was the title of his blockbuster smash hit movie. I expect that dillhole will be our next CEO.

-Rock, Rock

 

[SPDBRD747400]

As for the XXX, to me it looks like the stat's for all the flying "other than" ATL & CVG. Wish there was another base though, I won't put to much emphasis on the XXX if I were you. Even if there was a new one it will only last 3 months anyway!

 

[wms]

Delta has been de-identifying all the regionals. Statistically, ASA is the most profitable airline in the industry and makes DAL and SKYW large profits, even when DAL places such unrealistic demands on us. Just make sure you include the Delta name in all you apologetic PAs.

 

[XPOO]

We actually needed statistical evidence to prove that ASA was the worst airline in the world?

 

[Beergut]

Don't you think that's why management came to the table finally? Delta pulled JA in and told him to straighten this crap out. Then we got a TA and LeBozo and other incompetent management types from ASA are gone. I expect someone from Utah with some actual knowledge on how to run and schedule a REGIONAL airline will be brought in to run ASA. As for baggage handling and on time departures that all falls on DELTA. The unfortunate thing is that the media dumps it all on us now and the flying public doesn't know the real story.:smash:

 

[CFI2766]

Delta has been de-identifying all the regionals. Statistically, ASA is the most profitable airline in the industry and makes DAL and SKYW large profits, even when DAL places such unrealistic demands on us. Just make sure you include the Delta name in all you apologetic PAs.

This is a troubling line of thought: ASA has no control over revenue. Sure, we might be profitable now, but it is Delta that allocates the revenue.

 

[79%N1]

Old news....Move on.

Delta handles ALL ASA's ramp, baggage and Gate operations; makes the schedules and assigns the gates.

Not to mention ASA's pilots were negotiating a new contract and doing no favors for the operation. Do the math. Anybody privy to the information knows ASA was doing much better in on-time and baggage before Delta took that over, and the numbers are considerably higher since the contract was TA'd.