off the plane at 6:37. like another 20 minutes. he hasn t seen so much airplanes on one track in a few years. it took us a while to get to our gate, but we are here now. and we are expecting what la people call a win ster storm coming through that could affect things later today. winter storm, the rest of you and the rest of the country call it drizzle. we hope you guys make it through that. what about the rest of the country? there are issues everywhere because there s a real winter storm in large parts of the country and that s why the arrival numbers here at lax, for instance, far more delays on the arrival side than departure side because many airports being affected as you take at look at four airports around the country, so everybody is experiencing to some extent.
news. i was stunned by the delays. this is not weather-related here. no, it s been a beautiful week. the trouble is that the airline is locked in this contentious battle with pilots. the pilots have not signed off on a new the contract. the airline is in bankruptcy proceedings and it s trying to put new conditions on the pilots. the pilots deny there s any organized effort here, but you cannot deny the fact that the on-time arrival numbers for american have sunk this week. let me show you a couple of numbers. last year, last september american airlines had on-time arrival rate of 82%. this september so far they re at 61%. let me show you what happened so far this week. on sunday they had an on-time arrival number of only 45%. you have monday, tuesday, wednesday and more delays yesterday. just a minute ago i got a new number if we can come off the graphics. flight stats just told me this. for the week american airlines has an on-time average the rate