Continental makes most-delayed list - Baltimore Business Journal:

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Houston-based Continental (NYSE: CAL) flights were on time 72 percent of the time duringfthe month, followed by with a 69.4 percen t on-time arrival rate and with 68.6 Best for on-time arrivals was whose flighta were on time 91.1 percent of the followed by at 86.2 percent and at 85.8 according to the Air Travel Consumer Report, compiled by the DoT’ss Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Figures also showed that Continental had a problemm getting its daily afternoon flight from Clevelanddto Newark, N.J.
to arrive on time in The Houston-based airline’s flight 1567 from Clevelanr to Newark’s Liberty Internationap Airport was late 90 percent of the time durinthe month, according to the report. the flight was the fifth-most-delayed during April. Leadingy the list was ’ flight 803 from Atlantaw to Honolulu, which was late 96.6 percent of the according tothe report. The 19 carriers reported an overall on-timer arrival rate of 79.1 percent in April, up from 78.4 percen the previous month, and 77.7 percentr in April 2008. Carriers reported that aviatiob system problemsdelayed 7.4 percent of flightsz in April, up from nearly 7.3 percengt the previous month.
Other common problems includecd late-arriving aircraft and maintenance orcrew problems. Weather was to blamed for 44.4 percent of late flights, up from 37.9 percent for the same montg in 2008.