Hawaiian Airlines repeats as nation's most punctual carrier
Hawaiian Airlines had the nation's best on-time record and fewest flight cancellations in September.
The U.S. Transportation Department said Hawai'i's on-time performance of 94.1 percent was 7.9 percentage points above the industry's average of 86.2 percent.
The local carrier said it had just eight cancellations out of 5,904 flights in September, topping the industry.
Hawaiian also was third among all airlines for baggage handling, with an average of 1.9 mishandled baggage reports for every 1,000 passengers.
The DOT report covers 19 airlines, including nine serving Hawaii.
Separately, go! airlines said its planes were 65 percent full in October, down from 70.8 percent full the same month a year earlier. Go!, a division of Phoenix-based Mesa Air Group, said it carried 54,867 passengers in October, down 13.6 percent from 63,482 passengers a year earlier.