About 1.3 percent of U.S. passenger flights in June were canceled, down from 2.1 percent in June 2023 and 1.4 percent in May 2024, the Department of Transportation announced Friday.
In the first six months of 2024, reporting carriers canceled 1.4 percent of flights, down from 1.6 percent in the first six months of 2023, DOT said in its monthly Air Travel Consumer Report .
Southwest Airlines posted the lowest June cancellation rate at 0.3 percent, followed by the Alaska Airlines network at 0.6 percent and Hawaiian Airlines at 0.7 percent. Networks include branded codeshare partners.
Frontier Airlines had the highest June cancellation rate at 3.5 percent, with Spirit Airlines at 2.6 percent and JetBlue Airways at 2.5 percent.
U.S. carriers in June operated nearly 652,000 domestic flights, up more than 6 percent year over year less than half a percentage point from May 2024 levels.
Those carriers in June had a mishandled baggage rate of 0.58 percent on 44.6 million bags, the same percentage as the month before and down from 0.70 percent in June 2023.
DOT said it plans to release data on consumer complaints about air travel for January through May 2024 in September.
