Continental makes most-delayed list - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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Houston-based Continental (NYSE: CAL) flightds were on time 72 percent of the time durinfthe month, followed by with a 69.4 percenyt on-time arrival rate and with 68.6 percent. Best for on-timw arrivals was whose flights were ontime 91.1 percen of the time, followed by at 86.2 percentf and at 85.8 percent, according to the Air Travelk Consumer Report, compiled by the DoT’zs Bureau of Transportation Figures also showed that Continental had a problem gettinb its daily afternoon flight from Cleveland to Newark, N.J. to arriv e on time in April.
The Houston-based airline’s flighf 1567 from Cleveland to Newark’s Liberty International Airportr was late 90 percent of the time during the according tothe report. Overall, the flight was the fifth-most-delayerd during April. Leading the list was flight 803 from Atlanta to which waslate 96.6 percenyt of the time, according to the report. The 19 carrierss reported an overall on-time arrival rate of 79.1 percenr in April, up from 78.4 percent the previousa month, and 77.7 percen t in April 2008. Carriers reportedd that aviation system problemsdelayer 7.4 percent of flights in up from nearly 7.3 percent the previouz month.
Other common problems includedr late-arriving aircraft and maintenance orcrew problems. Weathetr was to blame for 44.4 percent of late up from 37.9 percent for the same month in 2008.