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Article: [ You've waited through the ticket line and made it ... ]
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- February 13, 2006
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You've waited through the ticket line and made it through
security. You've checked your bags, checked your itinerary and raced
to the gate to find ... Flight delayed.
Chances are, not at LAX.
The airport had one of the nation's highest rates of flights
leaving on time last year, federal statistics show. Planes taking off
from Los Angeles International Airport pushed back from the gate on
schedule more than 83 percent of the time.
The statistics were even better for travelers headed to Hawaii,
according to a Daily Breeze analysis. The two major U.S. airlines
with the best on-time records out of LAX both fly only to the
islands.
"LAX escapes a lot of the criticism that other airports get," ...