Punctuality down at UK airports
Flight punctuality at UK airports fell in the second quarter of 2014 compared with the same period in 2013.
On-time performance of scheduled flights was 78%, three percentage points lower than the second quarter of 2013, according to Civil Aviation Authority statistics.
The five biggest London airports, Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton and London City, saw an overall reduction of three percentage points for on-time scheduled flights, falling from 80% to 77%.
The five other UK airports monitored, Manchester, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Glasgow and Newcastle, also recorded an overall reduction of three percentage points, from 84% to 81% of flights on-time.
Individually all 10 airports saw punctuality deteriorations. The biggest fall was recorded at Luton, where the decline was eight percentage points.
An ‘on-time’ flight is defined as departing or arriving at a UK airport either early or up to 15 minutes late.
On average monitored scheduled flights were delayed by 12 minutes, an increase of one minute when compared to the second quarter of 2013.
The overall on-time performance for charter flights was 72%, a decrease of five percentage points compared with the second quarter of 2013.
Average delay was 18 minutes, the same as in the second quarter of 2013.
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Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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