The world's most punctual airlines and airports in 2023

Nothing about flying is as exasperating as getting your flight delayed, cancelled or disrupted.

Arriving at or departing from a vacation spot on time is among the most vital concerns a traveler takes earlier than deciding whether or not to guide a subsequent flight from the identical airline.

Latest outcomes from journey knowledge analytics agency Cirium revealed that the most punctual airline final yr in the worldwide class was Colombia’s Avianca Airlines, which achieved an 85.73% on-time efficiency price, adopted by Brazil’s Azul Airlines (85.51%), which misplaced its prime rating. Qatar Airways got here in third with an 85.11% OTP price.

A worldwide airline is outlined as one which serves in three areas each day, the corporate stated.

An airline’s on-time efficiency is calculated by whether or not the airplane arrives on the gate inside quarter-hour of the scheduled arrival time and if it departs inside quarter-hour of the scheduled departure time.

In Asia-Pacific, Japanese carriers All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines claimed the highest two spots with on-time efficiency charges of 82.75% and 82.58% respectively.

Thailand’s Thai AirAsia fell to fourth place final yr from first in 2022.

Indian low-cost service Indigo rose to fourth from fifth place final yr on the again of the corporate’s fast growth.

The airline, which has the most important fleet dimension and market share in India, turned the primary Indian service in 2023 to hold 100 million passengers in a calendar yr.

It had an on-time efficiency rating of 82.12%, the report confirmed.

“IndiGo has actually emerged as a robust participant in APAC. Their operations have been reworked since Covid,” stated David White, vice-president of enterprise growth at Cirium.

“It’s giving each ANA [All Nippon Airways] and JAL [Japan Airlines] a run for his or her cash in phrases of their on-time efficiency,” White stated at a web based press convention forward of the report’s launch.