El Prat, one of the airports with the fewest incidents in Europe
Few things are more exasperating than the delay or cancellation of a flight , but what are the chances that it will be your turn to live that experience? It seems that it depends on the airport you are in.
flight right , a company specialized in defending the rights of air passengers, has calculated which are the European aerodromes where there are fewer opportunities to experience an incident, that is, a cancellation or a delay of more than three hours on a flight. And the good news is that up to four Spanish They sneak into their top ten, made with data from the first half of 2019.
“ Adolfo Suárez airport in Madrid is the aerodrome with the lowest number of incidents in Spain (0.60% of the flights) and the fifth in Europe, behind the three London airports of Stansted, Luton and Gatwick, and the Turkish airport of Istanbul (Atatürk) ”, they explain from the company. Note that the Atatürk Airport stopped receiving commercial passenger flights on April 6, when these operations were transferred to the new Istanbul Airport.
From Flightright they also detail that the seventh best European position is for the airport of The Gran Canarian palms (0.72% of incidents in flights), the eighth for the airport of El Prat of Barcelona (0.74%) and, closing the list, the Malaga airport stands as the tenth best in Europe, with only 0.83% of flights canceled or delayed.
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In this way, the four Spanish airports are ahead of the large European aerodromes , those with the highest traffic: Frankfurt -which is in 36th place in the ranking, with 1.54% of incidences-, Amsterdam -in 32nd, with 1.33%-, London (Heathrow) -19 in the ranking, with 0.94%- or Paris (Charles de Gaulle) -which occupies the eleventh place, with 0.84% of delayed or canceled flights-.
Here is the full list of ten airports with the fewest incidents in Europe , among which London Stansted rises to first place:
1.London Stansted, with 0.35% incidents
2.London Luton, with 0.39% incidents
3.London Gatwick, with 0.59% incidents
4.Istanbul Atatürk Int., with 0.59% incidents (until its closure in April 2019)
5. Madrid, with 0.60% of incidents
6. Athens, with 0.66% of incidents
7. Las Palmas, with 0.72% of incidents
8.Barcelona (El Prat), with 0.74% of incidents
9. Bucharest Henri Coanda Int, with 0.82% incidents
10.Málaga, with 0.83% of incidents
The number of incidents varies greatly from one airport to another
BETTER CLAIM
“The figures recorded by Spanish airports in 2019 are undoubtedly very positive, but the percentages of incidents continue to highlight that Thousands of Spanish passengers are affected by long flight delays and cancellations ”, highlights Laure Marc, Flightright International Communication Manager.
Thus, according to company data, during the first half of 2019, the amount of Compensation for canceled or delayed flights in Spain would exceed the figure of 142 million euros , an amount calculated on an average of 161 passengers per flight, who would get 250 euros in compensation per passenger -adding delays of more than three hours and cancellations-, and without considering the circumstances of the incident.
It is money that Marc invites us to demand: "It is necessary that the passengers affected by these incidents assert their right to claim, according to the European Regulation, and know that, in the event of any eventuality, they must save your boarding pass to be able to subsequently process their compensation”, underlines the expert. In this guide you have other actions that will also help you get the compensation that corresponds to you if something goes wrong at the airport.