Salt Lake City International Airport has got the punctuality thing down, it seems.
It is one of only six U.S. airports "” and the busiest among them "” to earn a top five-star rating for on-time performance over the past year.
The airport saw 86.5 percent of its departures and arrivals occur within 15 minutes of scheduled times, according to the flight-information company OAG for the period of June 2017 to May 2018. The data include canceled flights.
OAG issues five-star ratings to the top 10 percent of global airports that have at least 600 takeoffs and/or landings a month. They had to score higher than 85.1 percent this year to receive that rating.
Three airports in the weather paradise of Hawaii won five-star ratings: Hilo, 91.4 percent; Lihue, 89.3 percent; and Honolulu, 87.9 percent…