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This week we’ve seen air passengers stranded within the Philippines after an influence outage, flight delays in Florida and Denver, in addition to the continuing saga of Southwest Airways’ winter vacation meltdown.

Welcome to 2023, the place an airline really being punctual is headline information. The airline in query is South American provider Azul Brazilian Airways, which final yr had the most effective on-time efficiency globally, in accordance with a brand new report by aviation analytics agency Cirium.

Throughout what was a very chaotic 12 months for aviation, Azul Brazilian operated practically 280,000 flights final yr and 88.93% of them arrived inside quarter-hour of its scheduled time on the gate – Cirium’s efficiency measure.

Elsewhere in South America, Chile’s LATAM Airways (86.31% punctuality throughout greater than 450,000 flights) took fourth place on Cirium’s rating of worldwide airways and Colombia’s Avianca (83.48% and practically 145,000 flights) was sixth.

America was additionally properly represented, each for airways and airports.

For the second yr in a row, Delta Airways was given the Cirium Platinum Award for international operational excellence, which weighs up punctuality alongside operational complexity and an airline’s capability to restrict the influence of flight disruption to its passengers.

Whereas Delta solely made fifth place on the worldwide leaderboard, a formidable 83.63% of its million-plus flights had been on time.

United Airways (80.46%) was in eighth place and American Airways (78.29%) at No.10, whereas Southwest lagged behind with 74.06%.

Six out of the world’s prime ten most punctual airports had been within the US, with Salt Lake Metropolis Worldwide Airport putting highest. Cirium studies that 83.87% of its 226,545 flights took off inside quarter-hour of their scheduled departure time.

Asia-Pacific was significantly slower to open up air journey post-Covid in comparison with the remainder of the world. Japan reopened its worldwide borders in October and two of its airways – All Nippon Airways (88.61%) and Japan Airways 88.00% – had been No.2 and No.3 on Cirium’s leaderboard.

Japan’s StarFlyer was named the world’s main low-cost provider (95.23% punctuality throughout practically 22,000 flights) and Tokyo’s Haneda the highest airport performer globally for on-time departures (90.33% punctuality throughout greater than 370,000 flights).

It was a giant yr for journey to the Center East, with the delayed Expo 2020 Dubai and FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 each going down, however Emirates (at No.7) and Qatar Airways (at No.10) rose to the problem properly.

No European airways or airports appeared in Cirium’s prime 10s of world leaders and no UK airline or airport even made the grade for its regional rating of the most effective performers in Europe.

Spain’s Iberia, with 85.87% punctuality throughout greater than 91,000 flights, was named prime in Europe.

1. Azul Brazilian Airways (88.93% punctuality; 279,722 flights).

2. All Nippon Airways (88.61% punctuality; 162,370 flights).

3. Japan Airways (88.00% punctuality; 165,981 flights).

4. LATAM Airways (86.31% punctuality; 451,651 flights).

5. Delta Air Traces (83.63% punctuality; 1,004,684 flights).

6. Avianca S.A. (83.48% punctuality; 144,525 flights).

7. Emirates (81.30% punctuality; 137,589 flights).

8. United Airways (80.46% punctuality; 789,200 flights).

9. Qatar Airways (78.32% punctuality; 152,377 flights).

10. American Airways (78.29% punctuality; 1,076,100 flights).

1. Haneda Airport, Tokyo (90.33% punctuality; 373,264 flights).

2. Kempegowda Worldwide Airport, Bangalore, India (84.08% punctuality; 201,897 flights).

3. Salt Lake Metropolis Worldwide Airport, Utah (83.87% punctuality; 226,545 flights).

4. Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, Michigan (82.62% punctuality; 271,963 flights).

5. Philadelphia Worldwide Airport, Pennsylvania (82.54% punctuality; 233,777 flights).

6. Minneapolis-St. Paul Worldwide Airport, Minnesota (81.95% punctuality; 276,346 flights).

7. Indira Gandhi Worldwide Airport, Delhi (81.84% punctuality; 411,205 flights).

8. Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport, Washington (81.04% punctuality; 383,250 flights).

9. El Dorado Worldwide Airport, Bogotá (80.72% punctuality; 273,721 flights).

10. Charlotte Douglas Worldwide Airport, North Carolina (80.68% punctuality; 457,871 flights).