{"id":58911,"date":"2017-03-28T11:24:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T09:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/?p=58911"},"modified":"2023-08-22T16:48:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T14:48:40","slug":"air-punctuality-in-europe-surprising-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/air-punctuality-in-europe-surprising-results","title":{"rendered":"Flight punctuality in Europe: surprising results"},"content":{"rendered":"

The company OAG<\/strong>which analyses all global air transport data, presented its annual rankings of airlines and airports in terms of punctuality a few weeks ago. The comparison is based on some 54 million flights<\/strong> over the whole of 2016. For airports, OAG has selected as criteria those hubs where 80% of the flights operated are regularly scheduled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OAG's definition of on-time performance (OTP) is based on any flight arriving or departing within 15 minutes of its scheduled departure and arrival times. Cancellations are also taken into account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The results are surprising. Globally, the five most punctual airlines include \"secondary\" airlines with no global coverage, such as the champion Hawaiian Airlines<\/strong> or Panama's national airline, Copa Airlines. In Europe, KLM<\/strong> is the most punctual airline with almost 88%<\/strong> flights considered as one-offs according to the definition of IATA<\/strong>. Also in Europe, the giant Iberia<\/strong> is also well rated, with an average punctuality close to 86%. In Asia, it is not surprising to find the two Japanese airlines in the leading pack Japan Airlines<\/strong> and All Nippon Airways<\/strong> as well as Singapore Airlines<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Top 15 most punctual airlines worldwide (Source: OAG)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In terms of the world's airports, OAG distinguishes between mega-airports with operations exceeding 20 million seats\/year, large airports (10 to 20 million), medium-sized airports (5 to 10 million) and small airports (2.5 to 5 million). Tokyo<\/a> <\/strong>Haneda, Sao Paulo<\/strong> Guarulhos and Detroit<\/strong> lead the mega-airports with punctuality rates of over 84.5%, while the airports with the best air punctuality rates in all categories combined are, in order : Birmingham<\/strong> International (91.28%), Surabaya<\/strong> (90,30%), Osaka<\/strong> Itami (89.68%), Panama<\/strong> (89.56%) and Belo Horizonte<\/strong> (88,49%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n