Complaint: Canceled / Delayed / Overbooked Another "cancelled" flight , missing part
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Old Jun 4, 2010, 10:02 AM
The_Judge The_Judge is offline
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Arghhh. So by your example, should we ground every single airline that has a cancelation % of 1.2 or above?

Even the beloved WN cancelled 800 flights that month. So yes, reducing it to % in this high of a volume is misleading because that number is only 0.8% of the more than 95k flights they had.

My point is, flights get canceled for a variety of reasons. I don't think that a completion factor of 98.8% is bad in the industry. Regulation won't change that number. In fact, as I said, it's more near the top than the bottom.