Ethiopia Airlines is the leading on time airline in Africa according to the Most On-Time Airlines and Airports of 2022 Unveiled by aviation analytics firm Cirium.

Ethiopia Airlines scored 77.3% on time arrival over 102,571 flights while Royal Air Maroc scored 72.01% over 45062 flights.

Globally, Brazil’s Azul Airlines has been named as the global leader for airline on-time performance for 2022.  Delta Air Lines was honored with the Cirium Platinum Award for global operational excellence. This award considers a number of factors including on-time performance, operational complexity and an airline’s ability to limit the impact of flight disruption to its passengers 

The report notes that during 2022 airlines had difficulty anticipating the sudden recovery in demand with many disappointed on several previous occasions throughout the pandemic, when it looked like demand was picking up, only for it to reverse course in the face of new Covid variants. When the recovery finally came this past year, the industry—including airlines, airports, air navigation providers and other stakeholders—struggled with understaffing and insufficient capacity. Delays and cancellations became issues. In time, however, operations greatly improved as the industry added workers and adjusted capacity. 2023 appears to hold great promise for the aviation industry.

AN ON-TIME FLIGHT IS DEFINED AS A FLIGHT THAT ARRIVES WITHIN 15 MINUTES OF THE SCHEDULED GATE ARRIVAL. FOR AN AIRPORT IT IS DEFINED AS DEPARTING WITHIN 15 MINUTES OF ITS SCHEDULED DEPARTURE.

The winners in the regions were Delta Air Lines in North America, Thai AirAsia for Asia Pacific, Oman Air for the Middle East and Africa, Azul in Latin America and Iberia in Europe. StarFlyer was the leading low-cost carrier and Haneda Airport was the top airport performer globally. 

The company’s data is designed to provide industry stakeholders with a neutral, third-party perspective, based on the widest and deepest pool of data collected and curated from more than 600 sources of real-time flight information. These include the airlines themselves, airports, global distribution systems, positional data, civil aviation authorities, air navigation service providers, proprietary data partnerships and the internet.