November 08, 2005

How to identify cancel-prone flights before booking

It's getting easier to find out -- before you book -- whether your flight is likely to get canceled, according to the Wall Street Journal, (which has free access to its web site this week.)

FlightStats cancellation data is teaming up with PriceGrabber.com to integrate recent flight cancellation information with other data you'd normally see when choosing a flight.

At the PriceGrabber site, once your flight options appear on the screen, you need to move your cursor over the clock icon for each flight to see its data, which includes its own-time rate, average minutes the flight is delayed and a flight stats score.

Before booking, you might notice that United Airlines flight 650 from Chicago to New York's LaGuardia Airport, for example, was canceled 25 percent of the time last month, according to the Journal.

Earlier: NYC flights delayed more than 30 percent of the time
FAA site provides live airport delay status

November 8, 2005 10:22 AM in Arrivology

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