BWI ranks high in on-time flights

Nearly 30 percent of U.S. domestic flights failed to arrive on schedule in March, the worst on-time performance for that month ever posted, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics reported yesterday. Just 71.58 percent of flights arrived on time, and arrival delays during the first three months of the year reached their second highest rate in 14 years, according to bureau statistics. Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport had a better performance than average, ranking second out of 32 airports with 75.71 percent of flights arriving on time in March. BWI ranked ninth in terms of departures, with nearly 77 per cent taking off on schedule.

May 8, 2008