No Canadian airports or airlines on most on-time ranking: analytics firm

Canadian airports and airways have been absent from an annual rating of essentially the most on-time airways and airports by an aviation analytics agency.

The new report by Cirium, printed Tuesday, discovered that Azul Airlines, a Brazilian service primarily based in Barueri, was named because the agency’s “global leader in on-time performance” for 2022.

Factors comparable to on-time efficiency, operational complexity and airline’s potential to restrict the impression of flight disruption to its passengers have been analyzed for the airways to be decided as award winners, Cirium mentioned in a news launch.

The rankings printed encapsulate a turbulent yr for the airline business that’s struggling to get better from the COVID-19 pandemic, and proceed to face disruptions and “resource challenges”, the analytics agency said within the report. Despite that, there have been airways that rose to the problem, it mentioned.

Other airways listed because the “most on-time” included All Nippon Airways, an airline primarily based out of Japan and one other main Japanese airline, Japan Airlines.

However, there was some point out of Canadian airways, simply not within the “most on-time” listing. WestJet and Air Canada have been named quantity 9 and 10 respectively on the agency’s high 10 airways in North America listing.

Topping that rating was Delta Airlines, adopted by United Airlines and Alaska Airlines as second and third.

When it got here to airports, no Canadian airports have been listed on the “top performing” listing. The airport that was ranked first was Haneda Airport in Tokyo, adopted by Kempegowda International Airport in India, and Salt Lake City International Airport in Utah.

Reporting for this story was paid for by The Afghan Journalists in Residence Project funded by Meta.