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RANKED: Here's Which Airlines Are Most Likely To Be Delayed The Day Before Thanksgiving

Nov 26, 2013, 01:23 IST

REUTERS/Jana Asenbrennerova

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Traveling at Thanksgiving is often frustrating, and 2013 is poised to be especially terrible, with awful weather all along the East Coast.

Using Bureau of Transportation Statistics data, we ranked 15 of the largest U.S. airlines by how many of their day-before-Thanksgiving flights arrived late over the years 2008-2012, as a percent of all flights by each carrier. We also include the average delays for those late flights.

#1. JetBlue

Percent late: 22.1%

Average delay: 54 minutes

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#2. SkyWest

Percent late: 18.5%

Average delay: 59 minutes

#3. American Eagle

Percent late: 18.4%

Average delay: 66 minutes

#4. ExpressJet

Percent late: 17.9%

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Average delay: 59 minutes

#5. Southwest Airlines

Percent late: 17.0%

Average delay: 57 minutes

#6. AirTran

Percent late: 16.5%

Average delay: 45 minutes

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#7. Alaska Airlines

Percent late: 16.5%

Average delay: 56 minutes

#8. US Airways

Percent late: 14.9%

Average delay: 39 minutes

#9. Delta Air Lines

Percent late: 14.7%

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Average delay: 42 minutes

#10. Virgin America*

Percent late: 14.2%

Average delay: 32 minutes

#11. American Airlines

Percent late: 14.2%

Average delay: 51 minutes

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#12. Frontier Airlines

Percent late: 14.1%

Average delay: 45 minutes

#13. Mesa Airlines

Percent late: 12.9%

Average delay: 49 minutes

#14. United Airlines

Percent late: 11.6%

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Average delay: 49 minutes

#15. Hawaiian Airlines

Percent late: 7.6%

Average delay: 91 minutes**

*BTS data only available for 2012.

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** 2012 was a crazy outlier for Hawaiian - only 9 out of 200 flights were late, but the average delay among those 9 flights was about five hours. For the other four years, the average delay was about 39 minutes.

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