FlightStats June 2012 On-time Performance Report
Tokyo's Haneda outperformed the rest of the world's busiest airports by over 10 percentage points. US airports rounded out the top 5 in June.
Story by David White
07/05/2012 @ 13:13 (Updated 07/24/2012 @ 15:09)

FlightStats, the undisputed leader in global flight and airport information services, has released its June 2012 On-time Performance Report.

 

North American airlines, on average, delivered 75.73% of their flights to the arrival gate within 15 minutes of schedule in June, down a little over 3 percentage points from May. Cancellations were up .3 percentage points over May with 11,405 cancelled flights. North America's top 10 performing airlines and their on-time arrival percentages in June were:

 

QX Horizon Air - 93.73%

HA Hawaiian Airlines - 93.05%

YV Mesa Airlines - 87.99%

AS Alaska Airlines - 87.97%

CM Copa Airlines - 87.57%

CP Compass Airlines - 87.43%

JIA PSA Airlines - 85.33%

US US Airways - 85.19%

9M Central Mountain Air - 84.97%

FL Airtran Airways - 84.69%

 

Alaska Airlines, US Airways and Delta led the majors in June. Here's how the North American major carriers on-time arrival percentages compared:

 

AS Alaska Airlines - 87.97%

US US Airways - 85.19%

DL Delta Air Lines - 84.55%

AA American Airlines - 78.91%

B6 Jetblue Airways - 77.17%

WN Southwest Airlines - 70.85%

UA United Airlines - 69.83%

AC Air Canada - 62.83%

 

Smaller, regional European airlines once again turned in strong performances in June with Cimber, Air Baltic and Brit Air leading the way. 8 European airlines we tracked delivered > 90% of their flights to the gate on time. The average OTP for the group was 80.93% in June, down from 84.54% in May. The top ten on-time arrival performers among European carriers were:

 

QI Cimber - 95.65%

BT airBaltic - 93.37%

DB Brit Air - 93.25%

OK CSA Czech Airlines - 92.94%

ZN NAYSA - 92.47%

A3 Aegean Airlines - 92.44%

YS Aerienne - 90.96%

WA KLM Cityhopper - 90.36%

WF Wideroe's - 89.80%

U2 EasyJet - 89.58%

 

Singapore's Tiger Airways, India's SpiceJet and IndiGo airlines joined an array of Japanese airlines to capture the top 10 on-time performance positions in June as JAL, ANA, their subsidiaries and independent Hokkaido International battled it out for leadership. The average on-time performance rating among the 38 airlines we analyzed in June 73.76%, down slightly from May's 75.9%. Here are the top ten's on-time arrival percentage numbers:

 

XM1 J-Air - 96.12%

HD Hokkaido Int'l - 95.70%

EH ANA Wings - 94.92%

JC JAL Express - 94.57%

JL Japan Airlines - 92.77%

NH ANA - 92.45%

NU Japan Transocean Air - 91.53%

TR Tiger Airways - 90.58%

6E IndiGo Airlines - 89.12%

3X Japan Air Commuter - 87.74%

 

This is our second quarterly on-time performance report on Middle Eastern airlines. Jazeera Airways continued to demonstrate its operational excellence with > 94% of its flights arriving on time. Here's a summary of how the Middle Eastern leading carriers performed between April 1, 2012 and June 30, 2012:

 

J9 Jazeera Airways - 94.21%

GF Gulf Air - 89.96%

QR Qatar Airways - 82.80%

ME Middle East Airlines - 81.54%

WY Oman Aviation - 80.31%

G9 Air Arabia - 77.83%

SV Saudi Arabian Airlines - 77.57%

FZ Flydubai - 77.52%

MS Egyptair - 76.60%

EY Etihad Airways - 76.07%

RJ Royal Jordanian - 72.65%

EK Emirates - 70.91%

KU Kuwait Airways - 64.53%

TU Tunis Air - 44.10%

 

Tokyo's Haneda outperformed the rest of the world's busiest airports by over 10 percentage points. US airports rounded out the top 5 in June. The average on-time departure performance among the top 30 airports in June was 71.07%, down from 75.55% in May 2012. The top 10 performers among the world's busiest airports were:

 

HND Tokyo, JP - 96.67%

CLT Charlotte, NC - 86.12%

PHX Phoenix, AZ - 83.77%

ATL Atlanta, GA - 82.15%

SYD Sydney, AU - 81.80%

AMS Amsterdam, NL - 81.22%

MCO Orlando, FL - 81.12%

MUC Munich, DE - 79.30%

DFW Dallas, TX - 79.08%

LAX Los Angeles, CA - 78.88%

 

SLC, PDX and SEA outperformed their North American counterparts in June for the second month in a row each managing over 86% on-time departures. The average on-time departure performance for the group in June was 78.77%, down considerably from May's 82.07%. Here is a summary of the on-time departure performance for the 10 best performing large North American airports:

 

SLC Salt Lake City, UT - 89.56%

PDX Portland, OR - 88.11%

SEA Seattle, WA - 86.87%

CLT Charlotte, NC - 86.12%

MEM Memphis, TN - 84.60%

SAN San Diego, CA - 83.90%

PIT Pittsburgh, PA - 83.83%

PHX Phoenix, AZ - 83.77%

MSP Minneapolis, MN - 83.73%

CVG Cincinnati, OH - 83.70%

 

For real-time delay and cancellation trends, use our Global Tracker

 

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