If air travel makes you crazy and you want to streamline the experience as much as possible, you’ll want to check out this list. The report, published by OAG which is an aviation data service that provides flight schedules around the world, named 20 airlines on the list of most punctual.
Only two British airlines made the cut including EasyJet and Monarch. For the US carriers, only Hawaiian Airways and Alaska Airways made it in. The majority of the airlines, 12, were European.
Ironically, the top spot was snagged by little –known airBaltic, followed by Hawaiian Airlines and Austrian Airlines.
To get their list, OAG analyzed 200 operators around the world in terms of available seat miles in 2014 in airlines that operated more than 30,000 scheduled flights last year.
The full list, as presented by OAG was:
- airBaltic – 94.9% OTP in 2014
- Hawaiian Airlines – 92.3% OTP in 2014
- Austrian Airlines – 90% OTP in 2014
- Iberia – 89.7% OTP in 2014
- Norwegian Air Shuttle – 89.7% OTP in 2014
- KLM – 89.4% OTP in 2014
- Saudi Arabian Airlines – 89.4% OTP in 2014
- SAS – 89.1% OTP in 2014
- Japan Airlines – 88.8% OTP in 2014
- Thai AirAsia – 88.7% OTP in 2014
- Finnair – 88.6% OTP in 2014
- Alaska Airlines – 88.5% OTP in 2014
- Air New Zealand – 88.3% OTP in 2014
- easyJet – 87.7% OTP in 2014
- All Nippon Airways – 87.3% OTP in 2014
- Air Europa – 87.1% OTP in 2014
- Lufthansa – 87.1% OTP in 2014
- Monarch Airlines – 86.9% OTP in 2014
- Aegean Airlines – 86.5% OTP in 2014
- Air Berlin – 86.4% OTP in 2014