Little, who spoke at last week’s Clearfield-Jefferson Counties Regional Airport Authority teleconference meeting, said he believes Southern’s reliability rate is the highest in the country.

“What I’m just as proud of is our on-time performance, which even through the winter, didn’t dip below the 75 percent level, most of the mainline carriers were in the low seventies or even high sixties during the winter, we stayed above 75, and since the weather has turned, we’ve stayed above 85 percent,” said Little.