CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- The latest figures on flight delays at O'Hare Airport are in and they are not good.
Just 71.5% of domestic flights departed O'Hare on time in December 2022, according to data from the department's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). That's down from 81.4% in November 2022, a 9.9 % drop.
The real story in December was, of course, Southwest Airlines' catastrophic meltdown. 58.6% of Southwest flights departed O'Hare on time in December. The airline has promised to update key systems that exacerbated December's meltdown, as well as better communicate with passengers whose flights are delayed or canceled in the future.
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