Every airline and airport operations director starts the new year full of hope and expectation that on-time performance and dispatch reliability will be better than last year, but this hope can be dashed quickly. In the case of the US market so far in 2024, a combination of Boeing and some awful weather have already hit hard; snow storms in January are a given but Boeing’s B737-900 Max and now ER issue haven’t helped the cause.
Tracking the data of the major carriers since the turn of the year, we’ve looked at the cancellation rates by day for each one. As you would expect, for a few airlines the first three weeks of the year have been a bit challenging!
For Alaska Airlines, where nearly 25% of the fleet are B737-900 Maxs, the grounding of this aircraft and subsequent engineering checks are clearly hurting. Just over 12% of all flights have been canceled between 1st and 21st January, and that has been a consistent level of cancellation aside from the 17th and 18th January…
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