The most punctual low-cost airlines in 2024. Only two Europeans in the top 10, but the biggies (Ryanair, easyJet, Wizz) are all out
The trumpet that sounded in the cabin whenever one of his flights landed on time was eliminated in 2017. [...]
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The bugle call that echoed in the cabin whenever one of its flights landed on time was eliminated in 2017. But even if Ryanair had kept it, it would not have been heard so often aboard the Irish low-cost carrier's Boeing 737s during 2024.
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At least according to the Punctuality data provided by air transport data and analytics agency Cirium, which dedicated an ad hoc top 10 to low-cost carriers.
Cirium wanted to put at the top of the list (with the 84, 69% of its flights landing on time, i.e., within 15 minutes after the scheduled arrival time) Iberia Express, which, however, rather than a low-cost company in the strict sense is the regional company of the Spanish carrier.
In second place placed the Brazilian Gol, which recorded a punctuality index of 84.09% in the year that just ended.
At the foot of the podium, blessed are the Brazilians, The other big name in low-cost greenoro air transport, Azul (with 82.42% of flights landing on time).
Fourth is over (82,32%) Japan's Peach Aviation, while to find Europe's first real low-cost one needs to go down to fifth place, where with an index of 81.20% Vueling has placed itself, a low-cost arm of the IAG Group.
Sixth the American Allegiant Air (79,31%), ahead of the only other European in the top 10: Norwegian (79,23%).
In eighth and tenth place have concluded their 2024 The Indonesian and Thai branches of the Air Asia Group., with on-time ratios of 78.97% and 77.46%, respectively.
Separating them, the largest low-cost carrier on the planet, American Southwest Airlines with 77.77 out of every 100 flights landing on time. This result is even more appreciable when one considers the volume of traffic moved by the Dallas-based company in 2024: 1 million 451 thousand flights, about five times that of a carrier (albeit a large one) like Azul.
Outside the top 10, among European low-cost carriers, there are all the biggies: from Ryanair to easyjet, Wizz Air to Volotea. Poor Europe (and poor Italy).
