OAG: Delta Top N. American On-Time Airline for 2022

Right after getting the North American prime location in Cirium’s 2022 on-time functionality report, Delta Air Lines also came out as the continent’s winner again in travel knowledge supplier OAG’s world report of the most punctual airways and airports in 2022, launched Tuesday.  

Airways and airports for which OAG has flight status information for at least 80 p.c of all scheduled operated flights are integrated in the report. OAG analyzes airways that are between the 250 major globally by annual available seat kilometers. Flights operated by affiliate carriers are included in the data. Airports must have a minimum amount of 2.5 million departing seats. Equally departure and arrival facts are employed for calculations for both of those airlines and airports. A flight is regarded on time if it comes or departs inside of 15 minutes of its scheduled times. Cancellations are bundled in the calculations and are counted as late flights, in accordance to OAG. 

Top rated Airlines 

Of the world wide airways regarded as, Garuda Indonesia was on top rated for the 2nd year in a row with an on-time general performance of 95.6 p.c, followed intently by South Africa-based mostly carrier Safair and Eurowings, each individual at 95.3 p.c. Delta was the only North American carrier to make the leading 20 list, coming in at 17th with an on-time efficiency of 81.8 p.c. 

Among what OAG considers “mega airways” measured by frequency, All Nippon Airways was initial at 88.8 per cent, followed by Japan Airlines at 88.1 percent and Latam Airways Team at 85 percent.  

North American carriers fared much better in this category, having the latter 50 {32bc5e747b31d501df756e0d52c4fc33c2ecc33869222042bcd2be76582ed298} of the leading 10 places. In addition to Delta, which was sixth, they involved Alaska Airlines (79.1 per cent), United Airways (79.1 per cent), American Airways (77.4 p.c) and Spirit Airlines (73.2 per cent). Somewhere else in the top 20, Southwest Airways was 13th with 71.6 {32bc5e747b31d501df756e0d52c4fc33c2ecc33869222042bcd2be76582ed298}, JetBlue Airways was 18th at 63.9 per cent, and Air Canada was 20th at 51.8 per cent. 

Major Airports 

Airports in Japan took 7 of OAG’s top rated 10 places, including the leading four spots, and had 10 airports amid the major 20. The top three were being practically even: Osaka (91.5 p.c), Matsuyama (91.4 per cent) and Miyazaki (91.3 {32bc5e747b31d501df756e0d52c4fc33c2ecc33869222042bcd2be76582ed298}). No North American or European airports manufactured the general leading 20 list. 

Hunting at “mega airports,” which are measured by the variety of flights operated, Tokyo Haneda took best honors at 88.1 per cent, adopted by Atlanta (80.1 p.c) and Seattle-Tacoma (80 percent). U.S. airports took 14 of these leading 20 rankings. Rounding out the U.S. leading 5 are Houston (79.7 {32bc5e747b31d501df756e0d52c4fc33c2ecc33869222042bcd2be76582ed298}), Charlotte (79.6 p.c) and Los Angeles (78.6 percent). The airports in the previous four positions of the best 20 all were being European—Istanbul (66.9 {32bc5e747b31d501df756e0d52c4fc33c2ecc33869222042bcd2be76582ed298}), Amsterdam (65.1 p.c), Paris Charles de Gaulle (63.5 percent) and London Heathrow (61.5 per cent). 

On the lookout at all regarded airports in North America, the top three were being Salt Lake Metropolis (83.6 {32bc5e747b31d501df756e0d52c4fc33c2ecc33869222042bcd2be76582ed298}), Boise (82.9 percent) and Fresno (81.6 per cent).  

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