Ranking of ‘on-time flights’ shows how competition between Aer Lingus and Ryanair is a good thing

We imagine the PR folks at both of these companies are quite happy with these results today.

The people at Which? have posted the results of an analysis of over 850,000 flights from around the world, showing how many journeys managed to land in their destinations on time (or at least within a 15-minute window of the pre-set time of arrival). Good news on the Irish front, as Aer Lingus managed to rank fourth in the entire world, behind only KLM from the Netherlands, Iberia from Spain, and Qatar Airways from, uhm, Qatar. Ryanair didn't do too shabbily either, ranking 13 out of the 35 airlines that were covered by the data supplied by the Civil Aviation Authority. Down at the very bottom of the list however were Canadian company Air Transat, which managed to have only 55% of their flights land on time, followed closely by IcelandAir (56%) and Norwegian Airlines (60%). The full results are as follows:

KLM	87.84%
QATAR	86.06%
IBERIA	84.32%
AER LINGUS	82.28%
ETIHAD AIRWAYS	82.11%
FLYBE	81.55%
WIZZ AIR	81.43%
DELTA AIRLINES	80.76%
VIRGIN ATLANTIC	78.99%
AURIGNY AIR SERVICES	78.43%
AIR MALTA	78.01%
LUFTHANSA	77.66%
RYANAIR	76.92%
SWISS AIRLINES	76.79%
SAS	75.49%
SINGAPORE AIRLINES	75.34%
UNITED AIRLINES	75.31%
BRITISH AIRWAYS	74.39%
TURKISH AIRLINES	74.00%
SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS	72.58%
THOMAS COOK	72.33%
MONARCH AIRLINES	71.84%
JET2	70.69%
EUROWINGS	70.05%
THOMSON AIRWAYS	68.22%
AMERICAN AIRLINES	67.50%
EMIRATES	67.42%
EASYJET	66.19%
VUELING AIRLINES	65.23%
AIR PORTUGAL	64.59%
AIR CANADA	64.48%
MALAYSIA	60.23%
NORWEGIAN	59.86%
ICELANDAIR	56.09%
AIR TRANSAT	55.17%
Average	74.19%