{"id":4779,"date":"2019-05-30T08:30:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T13:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=4779"},"modified":"2019-05-30T08:30:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T13:30:59","slug":"delta-flew-2-million-customers-memorial-day-weekend-without-a-mainline-cancellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=4779","title":{"rendered":"Delta Flew 2 Million + Customers Memorial Day Weekend Without a Mainline Cancellation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\nBy Adrian Gee\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As customers traveled around the globe to be with family and friends  during Memorial Day, Delta worked around the clock to deliver a strong  operational performance. The airline flew more than 2.1 million  customers between Friday and Monday during Memorial Day weekend without a  single mainline cancellation<sup>1<\/sup>\u2014Friday had the highest number of enplaned customers at 666,714.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Delta&#8217;s three-day cancel-free streak came despite a number of  scattered thunderstorms that challenged flights, and complements Delta mainline&#8217;s long-standing 31-day no-cancel streak. The airline also secured a 99.93 percent<sup>2<\/sup> completion factor ranking, or the measure of flights operated versus scheduled, while notching an on-time arrival score of 77.7 percent<sup>2<\/sup> from Friday to Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This latest operational accomplishment comes ahead the airline&#8217;s busiest summer travel season, as Delta people around the world work to safely operate more than half a million scheduled mainline and Delta Connection flights in just three months, from June 1 to August 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(1) Based on Delta&#8217;s internal statistical reporting of all Delta-operated mainline flights scheduled between Jan. 1, 2019 and May 27, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(2) Based on Delta internal flight operations reporting for May 24 to May 27, 2019, based on flights scheduled and operated across Delta&#8217;s mainline and Delta Connection system.\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/N8a330-coastline.jpg?fit=640%2C427\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/N8a330-coastline.jpg 2400w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/N8a330-coastline-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/N8a330-coastline-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/N8a330-coastline-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\" \/><figcaption>An Airbus 330-300 (333) flying along a coastline<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As customers traveled around the globe to be with family and friends during Memorial Day, Delta worked around the clock to deliver a strong operational performance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,89,868,1103],"tags":[539,420,160,3475,3796,4926,246,2170,4928,540,4927,3941,4925,412,4929,4381],"class_list":["post-4779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airline-news","category-aviation-news","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news","tag-air","tag-airline","tag-aviation","tag-cancellation","tag-customers","tag-day","tag-delta","tag-family","tag-friends","tag-lines","tag-mainline","tag-memorial","tag-million","tag-news","tag-thunderstorms","tag-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4782,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779\/revisions\/4782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}