The other two airline companies earning a red light this year are AirTran and ExpressJet.
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Most of his coworkers at ExpressJet, which he said was staffed at full-strength on Tuesday, don't have power.
Scandinavian Airlines Flight 908, bound for Oslo, Norway, was directly behind ExpressJet Flight 4226, destined for Nashville, Tenn.
ExpressJet, which bills itself as the world's largest regional airline, operates as a United Express partner from United's Newark hub.
ExpressJet and American Airlines had the worst records with only 76.9 percent of their planes arriving on time last year.
ExpressJet and American Airlines had the worst on-time performance (76.9%) last year, according to the data gathered in the 23rd annual report.
Five other airlines -- Atlantic Southeast, Comair, ExpressJet, Mesa and Pinnacle -- didn't get an overall grade because some categories couldn't be completed.
The ExpressJet plane was towed back to the gate, and the Scandinavian Airlines plane taxied back to the gate, where passengers disembarked, New York's WNBC-TV reported.
The airlines covered in the report are Air Tran, Alaska, American, American Eagle, Delta, ExpressJet, Frontier, Hawaiian, JetBlue, SkyWest, Southwest, United, US Airways and Virgin America.
Of the 10 most chronically delayed flights in the U.S. over the past two years, all are ExpressJet Airlines flights for United that either take off from or land in Newark.
Houston-based ExpressJet, he thinks, made a mistake in spurning takeover inquiries from SkyWest, especially now that Continental Airlines has declined to renew its flying agreements for the bulk of ExpressJet's 50-seat jets.
Mann says the big carriers' plans are to concentrate on international and major domestic routes and turn over the shorter hops to their subsidiaries like American Eagle (American), ComAir (Delta) and ExpressJet (Continental).
ExpressJet, a unit of SkyWest Airlines, said it has so many flights on the chronically delayed list simply because it is flying in and out of Newark so much in the most congested airspace in the country.
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