Question about on time performance
- Thread starter chrisesp
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Unless you work inside the specific airline that would be tough to get hte specific info about flight xxx. When I worked at NWA I had access to the specific info, but that would hard to get from the outside. You could do a google search and easily find the overall ontime performance for a given airline.
kellwolf
Piece of Trash
It's pretty much the same with every airline and on-time performance. The main reason is the monthly DOT stats. Whoever scores the highest there with on-time now has the "On-Time Bragging Rights." Believe it or not CAL/XJT is high up, and SWA is like 5th or 6th in on-time performance. Even UAL is in the top three I think. I'm too lazy to open another tab right now. A lot of times, if we're waiting on a bag, we'll close all the doors, have the capt release the brakes to get an "out time" (which also starts his pay clock), and then pop the door open again when the bag comes up. On paper, it's still on-time.
Alchemy
Well-Known Member
Our "in time" at XJT used to be triggered by the bag door opening, but they switched it to the main door after our new contract passed (gives us a few minutes of extra pay).
The comapny recently informed us that they were going to switch it back to the bag door since our on time performance was suffering significantly as a result of the few extra minutes. The baggage door can be opened quickly by a ramper as soon as you pull up whereas you have to wait for the jetway driver to dock at the plane before the main door can be opened. At IAH, waiting around on the ramp for a jetway driver is a apparantly common problem.
However, in addition to going back to the bag door, the company is now going to keep track of two "in" times, one for the "in time" which is triggered by the bag door and one for crew pay which is triggered by the main door.
The comapny recently informed us that they were going to switch it back to the bag door since our on time performance was suffering significantly as a result of the few extra minutes. The baggage door can be opened quickly by a ramper as soon as you pull up whereas you have to wait for the jetway driver to dock at the plane before the main door can be opened. At IAH, waiting around on the ramp for a jetway driver is a apparantly common problem.
However, in addition to going back to the bag door, the company is now going to keep track of two "in" times, one for the "in time" which is triggered by the bag door and one for crew pay which is triggered by the main door.
av8trxx
Well-Known Member
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I am trying to find a website that will give met information as to how many times a specific flight was late, and by how much time. If it helps the airline is Alaska. Does anybody know of such a site?
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Do a search for the flight number at the Bureau of Transportation Statistics database. Go to -
http://www.bts.gov/xml/ontimesummarystatistics/src/ddisp/OntimeSummarySelect.xml?tname=OntimeSummaryFlightData
I am trying to find a website that will give met information as to how many times a specific flight was late, and by how much time. If it helps the airline is Alaska. Does anybody know of such a site?
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Do a search for the flight number at the Bureau of Transportation Statistics database. Go to -
http://www.bts.gov/xml/ontimesummarystatistics/src/ddisp/OntimeSummarySelect.xml?tname=OntimeSummaryFlightData
This is just another Doug Taylor sililoquoy, but on-time performance doesn't mean squat. You can push a flight on time, it can sit at the gate for 30 minutes, do 30 minutes of holding and as long as it's no later than 14 minutes after the (padded) published arrival time, it's "on time".
And if you don't utilize reporting tools like ACARS, your OUT/OFF/IN/OUT times are up to the discretion of the reporter.
For example, one airline didn't have ACARS and they had a fantastic on-time statistic. Another airline that competed with the "king of on-time" (which invariably didn't use ACARS) decided to pull out the ACARS equipment and like magic, they started running on-time and their DOT statistics reflected such.
Sometimes on some flights, and this is with my own carrier including the one I worked with previous, we'd have a 1 hour, 18 minute flight time, but it was "blocked" at 2 hours and 30 minutes to account for ground ops screwups, holding and general gnashing of teeth. The DOT said "Woo hoo! It arrived on time!" even though almost an hour was eaten up by being #38 in line for takeoff, enroute holding and waiting for a pushback crew.
On-time performance means squat.
And if you don't utilize reporting tools like ACARS, your OUT/OFF/IN/OUT times are up to the discretion of the reporter.
For example, one airline didn't have ACARS and they had a fantastic on-time statistic. Another airline that competed with the "king of on-time" (which invariably didn't use ACARS) decided to pull out the ACARS equipment and like magic, they started running on-time and their DOT statistics reflected such.
Sometimes on some flights, and this is with my own carrier including the one I worked with previous, we'd have a 1 hour, 18 minute flight time, but it was "blocked" at 2 hours and 30 minutes to account for ground ops screwups, holding and general gnashing of teeth. The DOT said "Woo hoo! It arrived on time!" even though almost an hour was eaten up by being #38 in line for takeoff, enroute holding and waiting for a pushback crew.
On-time performance means squat.
chrisesp
New Member
The reason I ask is because I have flight connecting through Ohare (Don't ask why I chose Ohare) and I found that it is routinely over an hour late, and the on time percentage from alaska is 40%. I want to rebook a different flight if that is the case.
That DOT site was exactly what I wanted though thanks!
