{"id":120414,"date":"2019-01-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/oag-aviation-worldwide-ranked-the-top-10-most-punctual-airlines-in-the-world-in-2018\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T20:41:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:41:05","slug":"oag-aviation-worldwide-ranked-the-top-10-most-punctual-airlines-in-the-world-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/oag-aviation-worldwide-ranked-the-top-10-most-punctual-airlines-in-the-world-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"OAG Aviation Worldwide ranked the top 10 most punctual airlines in the world in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In a ranking conducted by OAG Aviation Worldwide in 2018, Copa Airlines (Panama) was the most punctual airline globally, followed by Air Baltic (Latvia) and Hong Kong Airlines, due to the fact that takeoff and landing delays did not exceed 15 minutes from the scheduled time.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The top is completed by Hawaiian Airlines (USA), Bangkok Airways (Thailand), Qantas Airways (Australia), Latam Airways (Chile), Azul (Brazil), Qatar Airways (Qatar), and KLM (Netherlands).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Approximately 4.3 billion passengers traveled by air last year, 6.1% more than in 2017, according to a preliminary report by the United Nations International Civil Aviation Organization, with airlines occupying a record 81.9% of available seats.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The hierarchy of airports with the best performance, based on the share of flights arriving and departing within a maximum of 15 minutes of the scheduled time, is led by Tokyo Haneda, followed by Atlanta (USA), Singapore, Denver (USA), Los Angeles (USA), Madrid (Spain), Dallas\/Fort Worth (USA), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Bangkok (Thailand), and Chicago (USA).&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.profit.ro\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Profit<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Which airline was the most punctual in 2018?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Copa Airlines from Panama was named the most punctual airline globally in 2018, according to the OAG Aviation Worldwide report.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What criteria were used for the punctuality ranking?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Punctuality was measured based on flights that arrived or departed within 15 minutes of their scheduled time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which airport ranked first for punctuality in 2018?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tokyo Haneda airport led the ranking of the world&#8217;s most punctual airports based on flight performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a ranking conducted by OAG Aviation Worldwide in 2018, Copa Airlines (Panama) was the most punctual airline globally, followed by Air Baltic (Latvia) and Hong Kong Airlines, due to the fact that takeoff and landing delays did not exceed 15 minutes from the scheduled time. The top is completed by Hawaiian Airlines (USA), Bangkok&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":67528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2856],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-120414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conectivity"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/transport-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120414"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=120414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}