FIRST QUARTER 1990 AIRLINE PERFORMANCE

During the first quarter of this year, Alaska Airlines had the best on-time performance of any of the nine commercial carriers serving Orange County’s John Wayne Airport; 88.4% of its flights took off/arrived on time. Combined, the airlines achieved an 83.3% on-time rating for the 14,044 takeoffs and landings.

Alaska was also one of two carriers to achieve a 90% on-time ranking for either all its takeoffs or all landings--91% of its departures during the three months left on time as did 95.8% of TWA’s). Here’s how the airlines did during the January-March period, ranked by percentage of all flights:

% of Flights % On-Time % On-Time % On-Time Canceled or Airline Arrivals Departures All Flights Diverted Alaska 85.7 91.0 88.4 1.8 USAir 86.9 87.4 87.1 2.2 Northwest 84.5 86.5 85.5 2.9 Delta 77.0 89.2 83.2 0.0 TWA 69.6 95.8 82.8 1.8 American 80.5 84.1 82.3 1.9 America West 76.4 84.8 80.6 1.0 Continental 72.7 89.2 80.5 3.5 United 65.5 65.9 65.7 4.2 ALL AIRLINES 80.7 85.8 83.3 2.0

SHARES OF JOHN WAYNE TRAFFIC USAir: 4.020 American: 4,410 United: 408 Continental: 948 Delta: 695 America West: 1,930 Northwest: 972 Alaska: 335 TWA: 326 Source: Department of Transportation, Transportation Systems Center