The on-time performance of Chinese passenger airlines averaged 79.92% in December 2016, up 0.36 percentage points year on year, according to the data released by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC).

19 of all 38 airlines' on-time performance was higher than the average rate, including Juneyao Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines, Chongqing Airlines, Shandong Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Xiamen Airlines, Grand Air China, Jiangxi Airlines, China Eastern Airlines and etc.

Airlines are divided into two categories according to the number of their daily flights operated in 2015 - major airlines operating more than and including 200 flights daily and other airlines operating fewer than 200 flights daily.

Shenzhen Airlines took the top spot out of 10 of the nation's major airlines, with 82.97% of its flights arriving as scheduled in December 2016, followed by Shandong Airlines (82.27%) and Hainan Airlines (81.75%), respectively. Sichuan Airlines was ranked at the bottom of the category with 740.64% of its flights operated on time.

Here are the government's rankings of the leading airlines and their on-time performance for December 2016:

Data: CAAC

Juneyao Airlines delivered 88.11% of its flights on time in December, the best performance among the 28 airlines (including two start-up airlines in H1) operating less than 200 flights daily. Urumqi Airlines was ranked at the bottom of the list with only 65.28% of its flights operated on time.

Data: CAAC