New York – JFK, La Guardia, Newark Airports are the Worst in the Nation

New York – The Big Apple’s major airports — JFK, La Guardia and Newark — are among the worst in the nation for on-time arrivals.

More than one-third of the flights into all three of the airports were late in August, according to the US Department of Transportation’s October Air Travel Consumer Report.

Newark was the worst airport in the nation for on-time arrivals, followed by JFK, Boston’s Logan, La Guardia and San Francisco International.

At Newark, an amazing 40 percent of all flights were late. That’s 20 percent higher than its track record over the same time period last year.

JFK came in a close second. Nearly 38 percent of flights arriving there were late in August, a 16 percent jump from 2010.

And La Guardia didn’t do much better. Nearly 34 percent of all flights to the 71-year-old airport were late, a 10 percent hike from August of last year.

In the first eight months of 2011, flights turned up late 36 percent of the time at Newark, 31 percent at La Guardia and 28 percent into Kennedy.

One of the worst was JetBlue Flight 160 from Orlando to JFK. Its average delay was one hour, 45 minutes. In all, the flight arrived late 20 out of 31 times in August.

While stressing that it has made changes to alleviate the persistent delays, the Port Authority, which operates all three airports, acknowledged the problem.