...Or lack there of. At the end of every month we get a big PDF file with the on-time stats for every pilot in the company. Mine were...interesting. In the month of February, I flew 44 legs. This was the most in my base and tied for seventh most of all FOs on my aircraft. Of those 44 flights, twelve of them left on time; that's 27%. Believe it or not, I didn't even have the worst on-time stats. I had some help thanks to the fact that I did a week of mornings, during which usually 3 out of 4 flights for the day would be on time (until the 1pm flight, when all bets are off). The rest of the month was afternoons, though, starting after 3pm. I stood no chance. There were a lot of guys with 90%+; I simply wasn't one of them this month.
Of course, this is based on what's called D-0 departures, or departures within 0 minutes of proposed time. Afternoons in Newark...you're late before you even come to the airport. If we have an EDCT that's 2 hours after our original departure time, we're not going to push off the gate on time and sit for 2 hours, so we get slapped with being late for the D-0. If the plane doesn't show up until after our departure time, we're late. With weather and ATC delays, there's no way to be on time, which is where controllable delays come in. This is things like maintenance, crew, and operations factors that cause the flight to be late. Unfortunately we don't get those numbers individually.
According to our public filings with the DOT, as a company we actually did pretty well in Feb, at least. 99.8% controllable completion, with only 74 flights canceled and all those due to weather. Not half bad, especially for Newark.
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