On-time Tiger leaves the rest behind
MELBOURNE – Tiger Airways Australia has plenty to boast about this week.
Its on-time performance (OTP) in Australia in July was better than all other domestic carriers.
According to official statistics, Tiger Airways achieved the highest level of on time departures for July 2008 at 85.7 per cent, while Virgin Blue achieved 74.2 per cent, Jetstar 66.6 per cent, and Qantas 62.8 per cent.
MacAir was the best performing regional airline with 82.8 per cent departures on time, followed by QantasLink (80.8 per cent), Regional Express (79.2 per cent) and Skywest (73.2 per cent).
Tiger Airways was also the best performing major domestic airline for on time arrivals at 86.8 per cent with Virgin Blue at 69.7 per cent, Qantas at 63.6 per cent, and Jetstar at 62.2 per cent.
Shelley Roberts, managing director of Tiger Airways said, “ Since Tiger started reporting its on time performance it has consistently put the incumbent airlines to shame.â€
Qantas suffered a further deterioration in the number of flights delayed and cancelled in July.
More than a third of Qantas’ planes flying within Australia were late departing or arriving 37.2 per cent and 36.4 per cent respectively in July, the latest figures from the Australian Transport Department show.
Qantas’s budget offshoot, Jetstar, also performed poorly with 37.8 per cent of flights arriving late at their destinations and a third failing to depart on time.
Almost one in six of Qantas’ fights between Sydney and Melbourne, the third busiest route in the world, were cancelled in July. Qantas blamed the cancellations on the 10-week stand-off with its engineers over pay that ended on July 18.
In contrast, Virgin Blue, the country’s second largest airline, fared much better with only one in 25 of its flights cancelled.
Tiger reported no cancellations.
Ian Jarrett
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