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Meet These World's Most Punctual Airlines and Airports 2018

Meet These World's Most Punctual Airlines and Airports 2018
Airport and airlines OTP © Getty Image

Travel analyst OAG has just revealed its  On-Time Airline & Airport Rankings for 2018, naming the airlines and airports with the world's best timekeeping. Drawing on full-year data from 57 million flight records in 2017, the UK-based analyst has created a ranking of the best on-time performance for the world's largest airlines and airports.

Its definition of on-time performance, or OTP, is flights that arrive or depart within 14 minutes and 59 seconds of their scheduled times.

Airbaltic | airbaltic.com
Airbaltic | airbaltic.com

 

The most punctual airline in the world, with 90.01% of flights on time, is Latvian flag carrier airBaltic. Headquartered in Riga International Airport, airBaltic flies to 68 destinations in Europe, the US and the Middle East.

Most punctual airlines

1. airBaltic (90.01%). (Top Mainline Airline and Top Airline in Europe).
2. Hong Kong Airlines (88.83%). (Top Airline in Asia-Pacific).
3. Hawaiian Airlines (87.24%). (Top Airline in North America).
4. Copa Airways (86.39%). (Top Airline in Latin America).
5. Qantas Airways (86.18%).
6. Japan Airlines (85.27%). (Top Mega Airline).
7. Vueling Airlines (85.35%). (Top Low-Cost Carrier).
8. Jetstar Asia (85.08%).
9. Skymark Airlines (85.00%).
10. Aer Lingus (84.46%).
 
In Asia Pacific, here's the rank:
by ChannelnewsAsia.com
by ChannelnewsAsia.com
 
 
Most punctual airports

OAG ranked airports around the world with an annual minimum of 2.5 million departing seats. As with airlines, the higher the passenger traffic, the tougher the challenges, so OAG has broken down the rankings according to the size of the airport.
 
Tokyo Haneda | japantimes.co.jp
Tokyo Haneda | japantimes.co.jp
 
"Mega" (over 30 million departing passengers per year)
  1. Tokyo Haneda - 86.75% OTP
  2. Madrid - 83.63%
  3. Atlanta - 82.38%
  4. Denver - 82.24%
  5. Dallas/Fort Worth - 81.36%

Major (20 - 30 million passengers) 

  1. Minneapolis St Paul - 85.72%
  2. Doha - 85.41%
  3. Moscow Sheremetyevo - 83.55%
  4. Detroit - 83.30%
  5. Phoenix - 83.22%

Large (10 - 20 M passengers)

  1. Osaka - 88.45%
  2. Salt Lake City - 86.01%
  3. Sapporo - 84.73%
  4. Brasilia - 84.58%
  5. Rio de Janeiro - 84.25%

Medium ( 5 - 10 M passengers)

  1. Birmingham - 89.52%
  2. Panama City - 88.26%
  3. Cologne Bonn - 86.66%
  4. Belo Horizonte - 84.96%
  5. Stuttgart - 84.71%

Small (2.5 - 5 million passsengers)

  1. Tenerife North - 90.05%
  2. Hannover - 89.34%
  3. Stavanger - 86.67%
  4. Durban - 86.65%
  5. Anchorage - 86.64%

Source : OAG.com | Telegraph.co.uk | CNN.com

Akhyari Hananto

I began my career in the banking industry in 1997, and stayed approx 6 years in it. This industry boost his knowledge about the economic condition in Indonesia, both macro and micro, and how to More understand it. My banking career continued in Yogyakarta when I joined in a program funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB),as the coordinator for a program aimed to help improve the quality of learning and teaching process in private universities in Yogyakarta. When the earthquake stroke Yogyakarta, I chose to join an international NGO working in the area of ?disaster response and management, which allows me to help rebuild the city, as well as other disaster-stricken area in Indonesia. I went on to become the coordinator for emergency response in the Asia Pacific region. Then I was assigned for 1 year in Cambodia, as a country coordinator mostly to deliver developmental programs (water and sanitation, education, livelihood). In 2009, he continued his career as a protocol and HR officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Surabaya, and two years later I joined the Political and Economic Section until now, where i have to deal with extensive range of people and government officials, as well as private and government institution troughout eastern Indonesia. I am the founder and Editor-in-Chief in Good News From Indonesia (GNFI), a growing and influential social media movement, and was selected as one of The Most Influential Netizen 2011 by The Marketeers magazine. I also wrote a book on "Fundamentals of Disaster Management in 2007"?, "Good News From Indonesia : Beragam Prestasi Anak Bangsa di dunia"? which was luanched in August 2013, and "Indonesia Bersyukur"? which is launched in Sept 2013. In 2014, 3 books were released in which i was one of the writer; "Indonesia Pelangi Dunia"?, "Indonesia The Untold Stories"? and "Growing! Meretas Jalan Kejayaan" I give lectures to students in lectures nationwide, sharing on full range of issues, from economy, to diplomacy Less
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