Asia's most and least punctual airlines

[alberttky 0]

Online flight tracker and travel planning site FlightStats recently released the Asian arrival performance rankings, and Japan Air Commuter came out tops with 95.52 per cent of their flights arriving on time.

Air Busan trailed closely behind at 95.33 per cent, while Japan Airline's other subsidiary J-Air clinched the third spot with 95.01 per cent.

However, home-grown carrier Singapore Airlines came in 13th in the best performing list, posting a big drop from March's 7th place.

The Singapore Business Review reported that the carrier's on-time performance in April was down to 83.19 per cent from 89.92 per cent compared to the previous month.

The results were tabulated from the percentage of on-time, late, very late, excessively late, cancelled and diverted flights per airline in the month of April 2013.

The Japanese are known for their punctuality and this can be seen from their airlines' performances - 8 out of the top 15 best performing Asian airlines are Japan-based.

On the other extreme, Chinese airlines dominated the worst performing Asian airlines list, making them least punctual, according to the statistics. Only 40.06 per cent of flights operated by Xiamen Airlines arrived on time in April.

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[Kee Hooi Yen 0]

From my understanding, ATD counts when the aerobridge moves away from the plane and ATA is the time when a plane touch on runway. This is how the airlines use to assess their ontime performance.

 

Now my another question, with a quick turnaround time for many LCCs (eg. Air Asia) say 25 minutes (time diiferent between ATA and ATD , does the duration includes the time for the plane to taxi from runway upon landing to the gate as well ?)

[Radzi 2]

Irrespective of the airline, ATD is when the aircraft move away from the gate and ATA is when the aircraft finally stops at the gate, which means both taxi in and taxi out are counted as well.

 

A lot of delays are caused by air traffic congestion both in the air and on the ground; these are usually not caused by the airline.

[Cire 0]

Interesting.

Its like approach, land, braked, then accelerate to the gates, off load and load passengers and luggages, and then move out to taxi, accelerate, V1 , rotate, fly..

All in the span of perhaps an hour?

 

In one of the documentary show, a fully laden Air Lufthansa A380 have just 3 hours to off-load and load passengers and luggages and take off at the Miami International.

[Aaron Goh 1]

chinese airlines fares the worst can understand cos no one departs chinese airports on time. The sky above is just too crowded

[S V Choong 4]

chinese airlines fares the worst can understand cos no one departs chinese airports on time. The sky above is just too crowded

 

Or with People's Liberation Army's air trainings perhaps?

 

Chinese time - within half an hour to an hour late is still considered on time

Edited July 4, 2013 by S V Choong