Sonny, sweetheart,
I seem to have got you in a bit of a state with my outrageous comments.
Sorry I haven't responded earlier. Not trawling through pprune on an hour-by-hour basis waiting for you to ask me a question: what was I thinking?
DOT on-time performance figures, September 2004 (the latest ones available):
DEP / ARR
DJ 76.6% / 76.7%
QF 85.3% / 87.0%
JQ 87.6% / 89.7%
Cancellation rates: DJ - 1.8%
QF - 1.6%
JQ - 1.3%
Sonny, darling. In anyone's books an 11% split between departures and a 13% split between arrivals (DJ-JQ) is a "considerable margin".
I'll admit freely that QF and JQ are very close, but the margin is still "considerable" given the fact that when JQ isn't scheduled for 25 minute turnarounds it is scheduled for 30 minute ones. What does QF do? 40, 45 minutes?
My comments were only based on official figures. Getting upset about them isn't necessary, Sonny.
Uncommon Sense,
The DOT figures are one or two months in arrears. The stats for the last few weeks are a little way off yet.