The most punctual airline in the world to fly in 2020
** OAG is a global travel data provider**. It is dedicated, among other things, to processing **millions of data on commercial aviation** in the world. For this reason, after twelve bells, they finish off a great report ( Punctuality League , the ' punctuality league ') that collects more than 57.7 million flight records for the entire year 2019 . Thus, we can know, with figures in hand, what is the most punctual airline in the world (or at least, the most reliable to travel this 2020 ) .
THE MOST PUNCTUAL AIRLINE IN THE WORLD
To prepare this report, OAG has analyzed, at least 80% of the flights operated by each airline or each airport included in Punctuality League 2020.
Passengers rushing through the airport
The overall result gives the winner to the airline ** Garuda Indonesia, the most punctual airline in the world **, which obtains an on-time performance (OTP, the punctuality index that shows the percentage of flights that land less than 15 minutes late) of the 95%. incredible figure if we compare it with last year's winner, the Latin American Cup with 89.79%.
"This means that 19 out of 20 Garuda Indonesia flights were operated within 15 minutes of the schedule" comments the OAG report.
THE TOP 20 MOST PUNCTUAL AIRLINES: IBERIA IN POSITION 11
Copa Airlines , winner in 2019, takes second place, improving its OTP index with 92%. The rest of the ranking shows how only two american companies they break into the top 20; Etihad unseats Qatar this year when we look at airlines in the Middle East.
If we focus on Europe, only five reach the ranking , being Aeroflot the novelty, when entering the 'League of punctuality' for the first time and in a big way : in the sixth position worldwide and in the first position of European airlines.
It should be noted that a Spanish woman sneaks into the world top 20, Iberia , in eleventh position, with an OTP of 84.06%.
1.**** Indonesian Garuda ****
two. ** CopaAirlines **
3.**Skymark Airlines**
4.**Hawaiian Airlines**
5.**LATAM Airlines Group**
The anxiety caused by observing, in these panels, the cancellation of your flight
6.**Aeroflot**
7.**All Nippon Airways**
8.**Jetstar Asia**
9.**Singapore Airlines**
10.**Thai AirAsia**
11.**Iberia**
12.**Siberian Airlines**
13.**Air Baltic**
14.**Delta Air Lines**
15.**Japan Airlines**
16.**Sky Airlines**
17.**Etihad Airways**
18.**Qantas Airways**
19.**Jet2.com**
20.**IndonesiaAirAsia**
SPAIN IN THE 'PUNCTUALITY LEAGUE'
In addition to the global list of all the airlines in the world, where Iberia manages to sneak into position number 11 , from OAG propose a categorization by size of the airline and geographical.
1. By size: World's Mega Airlines (the top 20 of global operators, when it comes to scheduled flights, in 2019) ; Main Airlines, or main airlines (which must be within the top 250 of global operators in terms of Available Seat Kilometres -ASKs-, that is, the measure of the capacity of an aircraft or airline to generate income that results from multiplying the available seats by the number of kilometers that the aircraft will operate on each flight) ; low-cost (which must also be in the top 250 in terms of ASKs) .
two. Five classifications according to geographical area: Asia-Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Latin America, and North America.
We see the presence of Iberia also in the ranking of the Major Airlines (Main Airlines), in position number 8 and with an OTP rate of 84.06%.
Regarding the ranking of the most punctual airlines in Europe, Iberia boasts third place with an OTP of 84.06%.
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THE MOST PUNCTUAL AIRPORTS
This report also includes the general punctuality calculation for each airport. To consider which ones are studied in the 'Punctuality League', these airports must have at least two and a half million departing seats (i.e. manage 2.5 million travelers with departures from its terminals ) . And the report is made based on scheduled passenger flights, both departures and arrivals.
Using the volume of passengers, airports are divided into five categories: small (between 2.5 and 5 million passengers who took off from its facilities), medium (between 5 and 10 million) , large (between 10 and 20 million), main (between 20 and 30 million) and mega (more than 30 million).
Thus, the one of Minsk (92.60%) , that of City of Panama (92.21%) , that of Osaka (88.03%) , that of Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen (83.42%) and that of Moscow Sheremetyevo (86.87%) become the most punctual airports in their respective categories.
In the case of spanish airports , the one of North Tenerife boasts fifth place in the category of small airports (with 85.37%) and the airport of Madrid-Barajas Adolfo Suarez , in the sixth position of the mega airports in the world (with 79.92%) .