Frontier, Alaska, Spirit and United Airlines as well JetBlue Airways were among the U.S. carriers with the most flight cancellations in a recent 12-month period, a new study has shown.
Frontier Airlines topped the ranking, with 2.22 percent of its scheduled flights canceled between August 2023 and July 2024, based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) analyzed by QR Code Generator.
The BTS data on the number of canceled flights in the 12-month period for each airline was weighed against the total number of scheduled flights to calculate the percentage of canceled flights between August 2023 and July 2024. The carriers with the highest percentage of canceled flights determined their ranking.
Frontier was followed by Endeavor Air, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, which had a flight cancellation rate of 2.21 percent, as well as Mesa Airlines (2.10 percent) and GoJet Airlines (2 percent), both of which operate under United Express, the regional branch of United Airlines.
Tied in fifth place were two other United Express regional carriers—CommuteAir and Republic Airways—each of which had a flight cancellation rate of 1.98 percent.
The second half of the ranking includes Alaska Airlines in sixth place, with 1.8 percent of scheduled flights canceled in the 12-month period, followed by Spirit Airlines (1.63 percent), United Airlines (1.55 percent), PSA Airlines (1.46 percent) and JetBlue Airways (1.42 percent).
Commenting on Endeavor Air’s second place ranking in the recent study, a spokesperson for Delta told Newsweek: