The Civil Aviation Data Analysis (CADAS) has published the Global Airline On-time Arrival Performance Report for January 2017.

This report reflects the on-time arrival performance of 191 major airlines worldwide for the period from January 1-31, 2017, which was summarized on the basis of VariFlight's vast and timely flight status data.

According to the latest report, 63 of 191 major airlines had over 90% on-time arrival performance, including 20 Asia-Pacific carriers.

Among the 191 reporting carriers, Taiwan's Uni Air had the best on-time rating at 97.79%, followed by Japan Air Commuter (97.6%) and Copa Airlines (97.4%).

Here are the CADAS' rankings of the leading airlines and their on-time performance for January 2017. On time is defined within 30 minutes of scheduled arrival time.

Table 1: Top 20 Airlines for On-time Performance in January 2017  Data: CADAS (Data.CARNOC.com)

Apart from traditionally comparisons by regions, to accurate the results, CADAS has further divided airlines into two general categories in terms of average daily flights - large airlines operating more than and including 400 flights daily and others operating fewer than 400 flights daily.

Global On-time Performance Rankings for Airlines with over 400 Flights Daily

Table 2: Top 10 Large Airlines by On-time Performance in January 2017  Data: CADAS (Data.CARNOC.com)

Global On-time Performance Rankings for Airlines with Less Than 400 Flights Daily

Table 3: Top 10 Medium Airlines by On-time Performance in January 2017  Data: CADAS (Data.CARNOC.com)

On-time Performance of Asia-Pacific Airlines

Table 4: On-time rankings for Large Airlines in Asia-Pacific in January 2017  Data: CADAS (Data.CARNOC.com)

Table 5: On-time rankings for Medium Airlines in Asia-Pacific in January 2017  Data: CADAS (Data.CARNOC.com)

On-time Performance of Chinese Mainland Airlines

Chinese mainland airlines are divided into two categories according to the number of their daily flights operated in 2016 - major airlines operating more than and including 200 flights daily and other airlines operating fewer than 200 flights daily.

Juneyao Airlines took the top spot out of 14 of the nation's major airlines, with 85.56% of its flights arriving as scheduled in January, followed by Spring Airlines (85.36%) and China Express Airlines (83.11%), respectively. Xiamen Airlines was ranked at the bottom of the category with 75.29% of its flights operated on time.

Table 6: On-time rankings for Major Airlines in Mainland China in January 2017  Data: CADAS (Data.CARNOC.com)

Grand Air China delivered 91.33% of its flights on time in January, the best performance among the 25 airlines (including two start-up airlines in H1) operating less than 200 flights daily. Guilin Airlines was ranked at the bottom of the list with only 57.95% of its flights operated on time.

Table 7: On-time rankings for Other Airlines in Mainland China in January 2017  Data: CADAS (Data.CARNOC.com)

The full report is available for download at here.

About the Data
 
Duration: January 1, 2017-January 31, 2017
Passenger flights: only scheduled passenger flights are included in this report; cargo flights, business aviation flights and general aviation flights are not included.
Actual arrival flights: the flights with actual departure and arrival time that could be monitored by VariFlight; cancelled flights are not excluded.
On-time arrival flights: the actual arrival time is no later than 30 minutes after its scheduled arrival time.
On-time arrival performance: the total number of on-time flights divided by the total number of actual arrival flights.
Average arrival delay time: the total delay time divided by the total number of actual arrival flights.
(Delay time for a single flight: difference of the actual arrival time minus the scheduled arrival time. If a flight arrives prior to the scheduled time, the delay time is 0.)

About VariFlight
 
Founded in 2009 by Feeyo Technology, VariFlight is a professional flight data service provider. Its products include global flight status data, fleet data, intelligent analysis on flight delays and on-time performance, ground operation control system and airborne meteorological data service system.
 
About CADAS
 
The Civil Aviation Data Analysis (CADAS) is the most comprehensive data platform about China's civil aviation industry with both static and dynamic data, such as flight schedules, flight status, fleet, route planning, financial reports, civil aviation service evaluation, traffic indexes, and so on.
 
CADAS is dedicated to providing timely and comprehensive global flight status data and strives to help improve the on-time performance of China's civil aviation industry from the point of view of data analysis. The Global Airline Alliance On-time Arrival Performance Report is published monthly.