flysafair shines again on list of the worlds most punctual airlines

Flysafair Shines - Again - On List Of The World's Most Punctual Airlines

If the latest round of airline delays over the holiday season has you feeling anxious about your next flight, the 2024 annual on-time performance list from Cirium , published on 2 January, may help.

The world's most on-time airline international was Aeromexico, while South Africa's FlySafair topped the regional list for Africa and the Middle East.

Other regional winners were Japan Airlines Asia Pacific Delta Airlines North America Iberia Express Europe Low-Cost Carriers and Copa Airlines Latin America.

Aviation analytics firm Cirium analyses more than 25 million data points from 600-plus sources each day to determine whether airlines are meeting their scheduled arrival times. A flight is considered punctual if it arrives within 14 minutes and 59 seconds of its scheduled landing time. Only air carriers that exceed a threshold of operational size and regional diversity are eligible for the global rankings.

After conducting a review of how its data added up over the course of 2024, Aeromexico Ciriums saw 86.7 of flights arriving on time. For the Mexico City-based carrier, that number represents a 9 improvement from the year prior: 'an astronomical rise', as Cirium put it during a press conference.