Punctuality from UK airports reaches all-time high
Punctuality from UK airports has reached the best levels since records began in 1992.
Figures released by the CAA today show 84% of scheduled flights landed ‘on-time’ between January and March 2014.
The figure was six percentage points higher than the same period in 2014.
The five biggest London airports – Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton and London City – saw an overall increase of eight percentage points of on-time flights as a proportion of total scheduled flights, rising from 76% to 84%.
At the five other airports monitored – Manchester, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Glasgow and Newcastle – punctuality rose by six percentage points, from 81% to 87%.
Individually, all 10 airports saw punctuality improvements, with the biggest increase at Newcastle, which achieved an increase of nine percentage points.
An ‘on-time’ flight is defined as landing/arriving at its destination either early or up to 15 minutes late.
The average delay across all the monitored scheduled flights was nine minutes, which is a reduction of four minutes when compared to the first quarter of 2013.
Meanwhile, there were also improvements with charter flights.
The overall on-time performance for charter flights was 76%, an increase of seven percentage points compared to last year. The average delay fell by five minutes.
Of the busiest 75 scheduled international destinations, Rotterdam recorded the highest on-time performance with 91.7% and Hannover had the lowest average delay of 5.1 minutes.
Flights to and from Dubai achieved the lowest on-time performance with 63.4% and Delhi had the highest average delay of 28.3 minutes
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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