By Olivia Scheck
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — It's official: New York's airports are the worst airports in the country, posting the lowest on-time arrival rates in 2009, Bloomberg reported.
Only 66 percent of flights starting or ending in Newark arrived on time last year, with LaGuardia finishing slightly ahead at 69 percent.
John F. Kennedy, the third of the greater New York area's major airports, was also home to the country's most delayed flight, according to recent data collected by the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
A regularly scheduled Comair fight from Washington Dulles to JFK, which spends only 62 minutes in the air, was late 85 percent of the time for an average delay of 65 minutes.
Together, the three airports were involved in 41 of the country's 50 most delayed flights. And things don't seem to be getting any better, as Kennedy continues reconstruction into June on a runway that handles half of its departures.
"It’s going to be a hell of a summer,” Kevin Mitchell, chairman of the Business Travel Coalition, told Bloomberg.
