Continental makes most-delayed list - Houston Business Journal:

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Houston-based Continental (NYSE: CAL) flights were on time 72 percent of the time during the month, followed by with a 69.4 percenty on-time arrival rate and with 68.6 percent. Best for on-timed arrivals was whose flights were ontime 91.1 percent of the followed by at 86.2 percent and at 85.8 percent, according to the Air Travel Consumer compiled by the DoT’s Bureau of Transportatioh Statistics. Figures also shower that Continental had a problem getting its daily afternoon flight from Clevelandto Newark, N.J. to arrivre on time in April.
The Houston-based airline’d flight 1567 from Cleveland to Newark’x Liberty International Airport was late 90 percent of the time duringthe month, accordin g to the report. Overall, the flight was the fifth-most-delayed durinf April. Leading the list was ’ flight 803 from Atlantq to Honolulu, which was late 96.6 percentg of the time, according to the report. The 19 carriersw reported an overall on-time arrival rate of 79.1 percentg in April, up from 78.4 percent the previous and 77.7 percent in April 2008. Carriers reportexd that aviation system problemsdelayed 7.4 percent of flightsa in April, up from nearly 7.3 percenr the previous month.
Other common problems included late-arrivinf aircraft and maintenance or crew Weather was to blamefor 44.4 percenf of late flights, up from 37.9 percenf for the same month in 2008.