Rank Airline Avg. Delay
(mins) Within 15
mins (%) 1 hour+
late (%) 3 hours+
late (%) Best performing
airport Worst performing
airport
1 Thomas Cook Airlines 12.05 84.00 4.77 1.13 Newcastle London Gatwick
2 Excel Airways 13.19 78.82 4.82 0.82 Birmingham Glasgow
3 Air 2000 13.48 80.45 4.62 0.94 Newcastle Glasgow
4 Britannia Airways 13.51 82.64 4.93 1.25 London Stansted Edinburgh
5 Monarch Airlines 22.36 72.79 9.16 2.54 Birmingham Newcastle
6 Astraeus 26.53 64.15 9.91 1.91 London Gatwick Manchester
7 MyTravel Airways 30.45 65.76 12.82 3.27 London Stansted Manchester
8 Flyjet 39.75 43.70 18.04 3.26 Manchester London Gatwick
And its well done to Thomas Cook. After JMC were very poor with delays theyve really got their act together and Britannia down to 4th (but not far behind AMM,XLA) Doesent surprise me to see Flyjet and MyTravel at the bottom.
By: T5 - 16th January 2004 at 22:54
Originally posted by LBARULES
If EAL and SCY would have been on the listings I would have put them on… ok?
Couldn’t figure out whether or not you wanted a reply, so I replied anyway.
That’s fine, just curious. 🙂
By: EAL_KING - 16th January 2004 at 22:26
ok you know were we can find their On-time performance’s?
By: LBARULES - 16th January 2004 at 16:59
If EAL and SCY would have been on the listings I would have put them on… ok?
By: T5 - 16th January 2004 at 00:06
and Air Scandic? 😮
By: EAL_KING - 15th January 2004 at 21:37
you missed out european air charter
By: T5 - 15th January 2004 at 21:32
Flyjet didn’t have a superb start by the looks of things!
By: LBARULES - 15th January 2004 at 21:21
Key points for all eight UK charter carriers are as follows:
Thomas Cook Airlines
Leading UK charter airline for average delay and on-time performance at 12 minutes and 84% respectively.
Average delay at Glasgow down more than 4 minutes in Summer 2003 compared with Summer 2002
Excel Airways
Leading UK charter airline for % of flights suffering delays of 3 hours or greater at 0.82%, less than half the 2002 proportion
Average flight delayed 3 minutes less in Summer 2003 compared with Summer 2002
Most punctual UK charter carrier at London Gatwick in Summer 2003
Air 2000
Leading UK charter airline for proportion of flights delayed over an hour, down from 1 in 15 (2002) to less than 1 in 20 (2003)
Average flight delayed over 4 minutes less in Summer 2003 compared with Summer 2002
On-time performance up 8% in 2003 to 80%
On-time performance at Manchester up 12% to 83% in 2003
Most punctual UK charter carrier at Manchester in Summer 2003
Britannia Airways
Average flight delayed nearly 9 minutes less in Summer 2003 compared with Summer 2002
On-time performance up 9% in 2003 to 83%, second best carrier in this category
Proportion of flights delayed over an hour down from 1 in 11 (2002) to 1 in 20 (2003)
On-time performance at Manchester up 11% to 79% in 2003
Most punctual UK charter carrier at both London Luton and London Stansted in Summer 2003
Monarch Airlines
On-time performance up more than 2% in 2003 to 73%.
Average flight delay at Birmingham down 9 minutes in 2003
Astraeus
Average flight delay down over 8 minutes in Summer 2003 compared with Summer 2002
On-time performance up nearly 15% in 2003 to 64%
Proportion of flights delayed over an hour has halved from 1 in 5 (2002) to 1 in 10 (2003)
Significant punctuality improvement at London Gatwick with average delay 10 minutes less than in 2002
MyTravel Airways
Average flight delayed by 30 minutes in Summer 2003, 4 minutes longer compared with Summer 2002
Proportion of flights suffering delays of 3 hours or more up 33% compared with Summer 2002
Proportion of flights delayed 3 hours or more at Manchester has doubled from 1 in 40 flights (2002) to 1 in 20 flights (2003)
Overall on-time performance between 2002 and 2003 has held fairly constant
Lengthy delays of more than 1 hour and more than 3 hours have increased.
On-time performance at Newcastle has improved by 6% in Summer 2003 compared with Summer 2002.
Flyjet
New entrant into the UK charter market in 2003 therefore there were far fewer analysed flights compared with the above carriers
Overall 44% on-time performance, average flight delayed 40 minutes
Better performance at Manchester compared with London Gatwick
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January 15, 2004 at 9:13 pm