06 Aug 2013
TOKYO - According to FlightStats, Tokyo's Haneda held its top spot among the world’s busiest airports with an on-time performance of 91.28%. In June, three Asian Airports, three North American airports, three European airports, and one Australian Airport were in the top ten. The average on-time departure performance among the top 35 international airports was 69.66% up slightly from July’s rate of 69.26% and cancellations for the group were 1.82% down from May’s rate of 1.99%. Stormy weather in North America and overall consistently weak performance by China's airports kept the overall airport performance average low.
The top ten performers among international airports were:
1 Tokyo (HND) 91.28%
2 Munich (MUC) 86.12%
3 Tokyo (NRT) 84.90%
4 Seattle (SEA) 83.63%
5 Amsterdam (AMS) 82.67%
6 Minneapolis (MSP) 81.84%
7 Singapore (SIN) 81.75%
8 Frankfurt (FRA) 81.74%
9 Phoenix (PHX) 80.99%
10 Sydney (SYD) 80.11%
Regarding on-time flight arrival, five of the top ten Asian airlines delivered greater than 90% of their flights to the gate on time in July. The average on-time performance rating among the 41 Asian airlines we analyzed was 63.14% down from June’s rate of 68.86%, significantly down from May’s 72.39%. Cancellations for the group were 2.38%.
Here are the top ten on-time arrival performers among Asian carriers:
1 (3X) Japan Air Commuter 95.55%
2 (XM1) J-Air 93.15%
3 (FD) Thai AirAsia 92.27%
4 (BX) Air Busan 90.67%
5 (EH) ANA Wings 90.06%
6 (HD) Hokkaido 89.42%
7 (NU) Japan Transocean 89.25%
8 (JC) JAL Express 89.22%
9 (JL) Japan Airlines 88.85%
10 (6E) IndiGo 86.83%
Last but not least, the flightStats present the on-time departures in Asian airports. (ITM) Osaka International Airport kept the lead among Asian airports with 96.06% on-time departure performance in July. Four of the top ten airports had on-time departure performance rates that exceeded 90%. The average on-time departure performance for the group dropped to 48.62% down from 55.05% in June and 57.61% in May. Cancellations for the group were at 2.60% up slightly from 2.21% the previous month.
China's airports continue to struggle with on-time performance as the bottom 20 airports in Asia are in China. They’ve recently implemented an “unrestricted take-off” policy at eight of the nation’s airports to ameliorate the situation. Early performance results are inconclusive with performance remaining relatively constant or even depressing a bit. For reference the cumulative on-time performance rate at PEK, SHA, PVG, CAN, SXZ, CTU, XIY and KMG was 28.57% in June and 22.38% in July. Since the policy's inception on the 18th through July 31st, the cumulative rate was 25.17%. See departure performance by date.
Here is a list of the on-time departure performance for the ten best performing large Asian airports:
1 Osaka (ITM) 96.06%
2 Nagoya (NGO) 91.70%
3 Tokyo (HND) 91.28%
4 Fukuoka (FUK) 90.25%
5 Delhi (DEL) 88.52%
6 Sapporo (CTS) 87.41%
7 Osaka (KIX) 87.03%
8 Okinawa (OKA) 86.03%
9 Tokyo (NRT) 84.90%
10 Jeju (CJU) 82.64%
Sourced: TravelDailyNews