
South African Airlines has been rated as the best on-time airline in the world. Picture: South African Airlines
FlightStats.com released it’s top 10 list of the best on-time major international airlines in the world overnight. Topping the list was South African airlines with an on-time performance rate of 94.71 per cent.
Here’s the top ten list.
1. South African – 94 per cent
2. Gulf Air – 90.7 per cent
3. Japan Airlines – 90.24 per cent
4. Air New Zealand – 89.68 per cent
5. Singapore Airlines – 87.7 per cent
6. Air Europa – 87.27 per cent
7. KLM – 86.35 per cent
8. Delta – 86.35 per cent
9. Saudi Arabian – 86.28 per cent
10. ANA – 85.51 per cent
The results are likely to be influenced by which airport airlines fly into. Some are far better than others. The airport with the best on-time departure performance is Seattle-Tacoma’s International Airport posting a 91.18 per cent
on-time departure performance in February. It unseated Tokyo’s Haneda for the top spot among the world’s busiest airports.
According to FlightStats.com the average on-time departure performance among the top 35 international airports in February was 73.29 per cent.
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