VariFlight, a leading aviation data service provider, has released its latest Airport and Airline On-time Performance (OTP) Reports for H1 2018 based on its comprehensive flight database between January 1 and June 30, 2018. The study reveals that Itami Airport and Japan Airline, both from Japan, continued their leadership in 2017 and again topped the world as the most punctual airport and airline in the first half of 2018.

Itami Airport leads the list of top 10 most punctual major airports with an OTP rate of 94.81% and an average delay time of 12.38 mins. It is followed by another four Japan airports, two U.S. airports, and three airports each from Qatar, Brazil, and Australia.

Figure 1: World's TOP10 most punctual major airports upon departures (Jan-Jun, 2018)

Japan's Sendai Airport ranked as the most punctual medium-sized airport in the first six months of 2018, maintaining its superiority in 2017, while Mohammed V International Airport (CMN) of Morocco took the second place with an OTP rate of 92.81%. The other top 10 medium-sized airports that were also in the 2017 list are Kaohsiung Airport (KHH) from Taiwan, China, Chubu Centrair International Airport (NGO) and Kagoshima Airport (KOJ) from Japan, and Kahului Airport (OGG) from the U.S.

Figure 2: World's TOP10 most punctual medium-sized airports upon departures (Jan-Jun, 2018)

As for big airlines, Japan Airlines (JL) is recognized as the most on-time carrier with a punctual rate of 96.09%, closly followed by Qartar Airways (QR) and All Nippon Airways (NH) which also comes from Japan. Emirates (EK), Alitalia (AZ), and Iberia (IB) are three airlines that countinuly performed as ten most punctual major airlines on arrival as they were in 2017.

Figure 3: World's TOP10 most punctual big airlines upon arrivals (Jan-Jun, 2018)

Meanwhile, the first 4 medium-sized airlines in the top 10 list, Copa Airlines (CM), Hawaiian Airlines (HA), Singapore Airlines (SQ), and Etihad Airways, remain unchanged from last year, while Avianca Brasil (O6) held the sixth place again.

Figure 4: World's TOP10 most punctual medium-sized airlines upon arrivals (Jan-Jun, 2018)

The report which concentrates on punctuality performances of airports and airlines also further investigates airports and airlines based in APAC and China. Backed by VariFlight's complete and accurate aviation data set, the VariFlight OTP report is now one of the most trusted sources to identify on-time performances of the aviation industry. To read the full reports, please click Airport OTP Report and Airline OTP Report.

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