Here’s a link to that full Brookings report on on-time performance at the nation’s airports. Little Rock National Airport is 18th worst among the top 100 metro areas. We suffer because the airport offers mostly puddle-jump flights to busy hubs. You know what rolls downhill.You can look up Little Rock-specific data here.
The morning paper’s account didn’t mention American Eagle, so I looked it up because I fly it to accumulate award miles. As I figured, its record isn’t so hot.The August 2008 to August 2009 stats show American Eagle flights were late about 26.6 percent of the time against 31.7 for Comair, a Delta feeder; 28.1 for Delta feeder Atlantic Southeast; 25.9 for the Continental feeder airline ExpressJet; 20.4 percent for Delta flights; 17.1 percent for Southwest, and 15.4 percent for Northwest.