After Southwest Airlines led in North American on-time performance for the past two months, Delta Air Lines has recaptured the lead in March, according to the latest report from aviation analytics company Cirium.
Delta’s month-over-month performance improved by 2.2 percentage points to 82.8 percent, while Southwest’s dropped 1.3 percentage points to 81 percent, landing it in fifth place. United Airlines was second at 82.5 percent, while Spirit rounded out the top three at 81.7 percent, even though its average was down 0.1 percentage points.
The on-time average for March increased 4.8 percentage points month over month to 79.5 percent. The jump for Air Canada to 75 percent in March from 60 percent in February helped pull up that…

































