The Most On-Time Airline in 2023 Filed for Bankruptcy in 2020
Latin American and Middle Eastern airlines led in punctuality, according to Cirium’s annual rankings. But overall, rates were lower.
The most punctual global airline for 2023 was Avianca, according to Cirium’s latest annual airline on-time performance rankings.
Photographer: Jair F. Coll/BloombergIf your New Year’s resolution includes flying the most punctual airlines—in addition to choosing the best airports—the 2023 annual on-time performance results from Cirium, published Jan. 2, should help.
The aviation analytics company studies data on more than 35 million flights a year, including schedules, airline fleets and airports, to deliver insights on the aviation industry at large. For its annual airline on-time performance rankings, which it has been publishing for more than 15 years, Cirium examined 600 sources of flight data that spanned the entirety of 2023 to determine whether airlines have met their published scheduled arrival times. Arriving within 14 minutes and 59 seconds of that scheduled arrival is considered on time.