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Airport delays worsen
Atlanta third from bottom for late arrivals, takeoffs

By KIRSTEN TAGAMI
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 01/18/05

Atlanta had some of the worst delays among large airports last year as traffic grew beyond pre-9/11 levels.

From January through November, Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport was third from the bottom among 31 large U.S. airports for both on-time arrivals and departures, according to government figures. In fact, the airport's performance was the worst in several years, those figures show.



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ON-TIME SCORECARD

Hartsfield-Jackson International's on-time rates in recent years (in percentages):
Year / Departures / Arrival
2004 / 76.7 73.1
2003 / 81.8 / 79.4
2002 / 83.8 78.4
2001 / 77.6 / 77.3
2000 / 78.5 / 76.6
1999 / 78.2 / 73.9
1998 / 82.0 / 76.9
1997 / 77.8 / 70.8
— Source: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics Note: Figures are for January-November of each year.

WHO'S GETTING IT RIGHT

Airports with best on-time rates, January-November 2004:
Departures
1. Houston Bush
2. Salt Lake City
3. Washington Dulles
4. San Francisco
5. Denver

Arrivals
1. Charlotte
2. Denver
3. Salt Lake City
4. Los Angeles
5. Detroit BE READY TO WAIT Airports with worst on-time rates, January-November 2004:
DEPARTURES / ARRIVALS 1. Chicago O'Hare / 1. Chicago O'Hare 2. Philadelphia / 2. Newark, N.J. 3. Atlanta 3. / Atlanta 4. Chicago Midway / 4. New York LaGuardia 5. Las Vegas / 5. Philadelphia



The delays come as no surprise to Atlanta technology consultant Matt Mason, who flies out of Hartsfield-Jackson nearly every Monday morning and returns on Thursday or Friday. He logged 135,000 miles on Delta Air Lines last year.

Mason noticed that delays, especially flying home, grew longer and more frequent last year. A flight is considered delayed if it is 15 minutes or more late.

"I don't remember it being a constant 30-minute ground delay before," he said. Mason now checks for delays on the Federal Aviation Administration's Web site, www.faa.gov, before he flies.

"There's no doubt we're impacted by delays," said Hartsfield-Jackson spokeswoman Felicia Browder. That's why the airport moved ahead with its $5.4 billion expansion even when travel dipped after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, she said.

When the new fifth runway is competed in 2006, the airport estimates that airlines will save $5 million a week because of reduced delays, Browder said.

Delays vary by time of day, with late afternoon and evening often having the most late flights, according to the latest report from the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. For example, in November, passengers flying into Atlanta had only a 50-50 chance of arriving on time between 4 and 5 p.m. That was the single worst hourly performance of any large U.S. airport.

Overall, more than one-fourth of flights coming into Atlanta were late.

Delta, which is adding about 100 flights to Hartsfield-Jackson's lineup at the end of this month, expects that its changes will improve the airport's overall performance. The airline is moving from a "banking" system, in which groups of planes arrive and depart at the same time, to a continuous plan at Hartsfield-Jackson. Delta spokesman Kip Smith said that because flights will be leaving and arriving throughout the day, the new schedule should reduce congestion.

The Federal Aviation Administration is "excited" about the plan, Smith said.

Atlanta handled about 83 million passengerslast year, more than any other U.S. airport, and expects 88 million this year. The previous record, set in 2000, was 80 million.

The second-busiest U.S. airport, Chicago's O'Hare, had the most delays of all large airports. Second-worst for arrivals was Newark, N.J., and for departures, Philadelphia.

Charlotte had the best record for on-time arrivals last year, while Houston Bush was No. 1 for on-time departures.

The U.S. Department of Transportation posts a monthly report on delays and other aspects of air travel at airconsumer.ost.dot.gov.

The report also pinpoints some of the most delay-plagued flights. For November, the worst offender was Atlantic Southeast's Flight 4710 from Flint, Mich., to Atlanta, which was late nearly 97 percent of the time. Its delays averaged more than an hour.

Congestion was the leading cause of delays at all U.S. airports


You got to love it! Randy has one bad day and he's gone. Skippy and the circus crew have a flight late 97% of the time and everybody keeps their jobs.

Only at ASA (Atlanta's Slowest Airline)

701EV
 
Why is the Flint flight late? Is it us, the station, EDCT's for ATL or what? Me personally would guess the EDCT's.
 
ORD had 1-1 1/2hr waits yesterday for winds of 31011G18. sucks to have MDW 10nm to the SE. they were only using 27L/R for arrivals in the late morning.
 
ASA is changing to a "Southwest"-style departure system. It took many years of study to figure out the current system does not work. Read the autographed letter in Flica. I think I'm going to be sick. What kind of fools are over there autographing letters that say things they've said 1000 times before: "Uh, the current model does not work, so we're changing to an improved system. This should help ASA maintain its hallmarks of quality and service." Just whom do they think they're kidding?

The GO is chock full of azz-kissers, who have little to no experience or education in the job for which they have been hired. I am apalled at the utter lack of operational knowledge and professionalism with these folks- from inflight to corporate safety. They are all trying so desperately to keep their jobs, they'll do whatever it takes to massage everyones' ego from the top down. We'll get more "operational improvments", and the customer will get screwed. Meanwhile our crews are out on the front lines doing damage control for the inept losers sleeping soundly dreaming of what bulls1t excuse to use next.
 
Oakum_Boy said:
They are all trying so desperately to keep their jobs, they'll do whatever it takes to massage everyones' ego from the top down. We'll get more "operational improvments", and the customer will get screwed. Meanwhile our crews are out on the front lines doing damage control for the inept losers sleeping soundly dreaming of what bulls1t excuse to use next.

DON'T!

Let the system "work". Quit doing damage control and covering these buffoons mistakes.

Pissed off passengers write nasty letters to Delta. Nasty letters to Delta hurts our management!. Not until our performance numbers tank and passengers start writing angry letters, will Delta step in to end the labor trouble brewing at ASA.
 

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