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Iberia is the most on-time airline in Europe in 2022, Cirium report reveals

Iberia has been named as the European leader for airline on-time performance for 2022 by Cirium, the global aviation analytics leader.

The Cirium 2022 On-Time Performance Review is the global gold standard for airline and airport performance and will be published later this week, containing results for all airline categories, more detail and analysis.

The past year saw a challenging operational environment across the world, particularly in Europe, with many airlines and airports experiencing delays, disruptions and resource challenges. Despite this climate, many airlines and airports excelled.

For the second successive year Delta Airlines was given the Cirium Platinum Award for global operational excellence. This award considers a number of factors including on-time performance, operational complexity and an airline’s ability to limit the impact of flight disruption to its passengers.

Alongside Delta’s Cirium Platinum Award, South American carrier Azul Brazilian Airlines was the leader for on-time performance worldwide with the winners in the other global regions being Delta Air Lines in North America, Thai AirAsia for Asia Pacific, Oman Air for the Middle East and Africa, and Azul in Latin America.

Japan performed well with low-cost carrier StarFlyer named as the world’s leading low-cost carrier and Haneda the top airport performer globally for on-time departures.

Cirium defines an on-time flight as one that arrives within 15 minutes of the scheduled gate arrival. For an airport, it is defined as departing within 15 minutes of its scheduled departure.

During 2022 airlines had difficulty anticipating the sudden recovery in demand. Despite numerous false starts, when the recovery finally came, the industry – including airlines, airports, air navigation providers and other stakeholders – struggled with understaffing and insufficient capacity.

Cirium’s on-time performance data, furthermore, is backed by a completely independent board of advisors, comprised of industry experts with an unbiased view of the aviation sector. The board’s oversight ensures accuracy and proper representation of all the information the company presents.

More in-depth results are available below and will also appear at cirium.com, with the full report due to be published later this week.

In Europe the leading airlines were:

Airline	On time ranking	On time arrival	Total flights
Iberia	1	85.87%	91,154
Air Europa	2	84.10%	48,163
Iberia Express	3	83.80%	35,665
Vueling	4	82.04%	197,546
Austrian Airlines	5	82.00%	95,708
Norwegian Air Shuttle	6	81.29%	71,561
ITA Airways	7	80.29%	91,841
Norwegian Air International	8	79.03%	41,215
Finnair	9	75.16%	45,727
LOT – Polish Airlines	10	75.08%	85,902

Global leaders were:

Airline	On time ranking	On time arrival	Total flights
Azul Brazilian Airlines	1	88.93%	279,722
All Nippon Airlines	2	88.61%	162,370
Japan Airlines	3	88.00%	165,981
LATAM Airlines	4	86.31%	451,651
Delta Air Lines	5	83.63%	1,004,684
Avianca S.A.	6	83.48%	144,525
Emirates	7	81.30%	137,589
United Airlines	8	80.46%	789,200
Qatar Airways	9	78.32%	152,377
American Airlines	10	78.29%	1,076,100

The top performing global airports of 2022 were:

Airport	On time ranking	On time departure	Total flights
Haneda Airport	1	90.33%	373,264
Kempegowda International Airport	2	84.08%	201,897
Salt Lake City International Airport	3	83.87%	226,545
Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport	4	82.62%	271,963
Philadelphia International Airport	5	82.54%	233,777
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport	6	81.95%	276,346
Indira Gandhi International Airport	7	81.84%	411,205
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport	8	81.04%	383,250
El Dorado International Airport	9	80.72%	273,721
Charlotte Douglas International Airport	10	80.68%	457,871