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Ranking of ‘on-time flights’ shows how competition between Aer Lingus and Ryanair is a good thing
Published 17:37 22 May 2017 BST
Updated 18:25 22 May 2017 BST
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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% |
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