United Airlines survived the bad weather of December to finish tops among the big carriers in on-time performance in December, with 83.1 percent of its flight arriving on time.

At the bottom was JetBlue Airways, with 58.6 percent.

United was second only to Hawaiian Airlines, which enjoys that Hawaiian weather at many of its airports. Next among major carriers was AirTran Airways, followed by Alaska Airlines and American Airlines.

American’s fifth place finish, with 80.5 percent of its flight arriving within 14 minutes of schedule, was its best placing for any month since it ranked third in December 2008 with a 69.9 percent on-time mark.

With only 67.1 percent of its flights arriving on time, Southwest Airlines ranked 14th out of the 18 U.S. carriers in the rankings. That was better than its 16th place finish in November.

However, the 67.1 percent mark is the second worst performance put up by Southwest in the past 12 years, which is as far as I’ve got the numbers laid out. The only worse month was December 2000, when Southwest had an on-time number of 65.3. That month was a bad one for all airlines, and Southwest ranked fourth out of 11.

For the year, the winner was Hawaiian. Among major carriers, Alaska finished first followed by United and US Airways. At the bottom was regional carrier No. 18 Comair, followed by No. 17 JetBlue Airways and No. 16 American Eagle.

American for the 12 months finished ninth and Southwest finished 10th.

Rank December On-time Rank Full year On-time
1 Hawaiian 87.6% 1 Hawaiian 92.5%
2 United 83.1% 2 Alaska 87.6%
3 AirTran 82.1% 3 United 85.2%
4 Alaska 80.9% 4 Mesa 83.3%
5 American 80.5% 5 US Airways 83.0%
6 Mesa 78.9% 6 AirTran 82.8%
7 US Airways 78.7% 7 Continental 81.4%
8 Frontier 76.6% 8 Frontier 81.4%
9 American Eagle 74.0% 9 American 79.6%
10 Continental 72.1% 10 Southwest 79.5%
11 ExpressJet 71.7% 11 Atlantic Southeast 79.2%
12 Atlantic Southeast 70.5% 12 SkyWest 79.1%
13 Delta 70.1% 13 Pinnacle 78.5%
14 Southwest 67.1% 14 ExpressJet 77.8%
15 Pinnacle 65.5% 15 Delta 77.4%
16 SkyWest 64.4% 16 American Eagle 77.1%
17 Comair 63.1% 17 JetBlue 75.7%
18 JetBlue 58.6% 18 Comair 73.1%
Total 72.0% Total Total 79.8%

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