But Southwest said it operated 98 percent of its flights yesterday and nearly all were on time.

The company reported that 92.2 percent of its flights arrived on time in August.

That morning the company canceled 23 percent of its flights and shut service to 11 cities entirely.

He said about 75 percent of the airline's flights would be canceled.

Using mostly management pilots, the airline has been able to get about 10 percent of its flights into the air.

The airline has been able to operate less than 10 percent of its scheduled flights.

In September 1987, only 69 percent of its flights arrived on time.

Singapore Airlines said it would cut 19.7 percent of its flights.

The data showed that 31 percent of Northwest's flights were delayed last week, before the strike began.

That was more than 15 percent of all its flights last year.