Aviation
North America’s Top 10 Punctual Airlines and their OTP
According to OAG, flights that arrive or depart within 15 minutes of their planned arrival or departure schedules are considered to be operating on-time (OTP). Flight cancellations are counted as late flights in the OTP calculations. The 250 largest international airlines, as determined by the annual Available Seat Kilometres (ASKs), are examined for the report. Only scheduled passenger flights may be included in airline OTP estimates, which are based on operating carrier codes. Only data from arrivals is used to calculate airline OTP. Here is a list of North America’s Top 10 Punctual Airlines and their OTP.
Delta Air Lines (DL) move up to become the most punctual airline in North America this year, with an OTP of 81.79%. Delta has a low cancellation rate, of just 1.94%.
Both United Airlines (UA) and America Airlines (AA) have seen considerable moves upwards, with United climbing from ninth place in 2019 to third in 2022, and American up from eighth to fourth.
In North America, legacy airlines have higher OTP this year than LCCs. The average cancellation rate for these carriers was 2.62% in 2022, with Allegiant Air (G4) having the highest rate at 4.43% of flights cancelled.
