Low-cost South African airline FlySafair is the second-most on-time airline in the world according to OAG, a global travel data provider based in the UK.
The company releases an annual Punctuality League report that analyses flight data to determine the most on-time airlines and airports in the world.
During the 2022 calendar year, FlySafair’s on-time performance attained a 95.3% score, placing it second among the top 20 most on-time airlines in the world.
This is despite operating 47% more flights in 2022 than in 2019. The airline also has a very low cancellation rate of 0.02%.
Garuda Indonesia got first place with a 95.63% on-time performance ranking but one must note that they only operated 25% of the flights they had in 2019 compared to FlySafair’s 47%.
No other local airline managed to make it onto the top 20 list.
Furthermore, two South African airports made it to the top 20 on-time list for airports.
King Shaka International Airport in Durban took a fifth-place spot with an on-time performance of 89.73% and a 1.37% cancellation rate. The other top four positions were taken by Japanese airlines.
Cape Town International Airport obtained the 16th spot with an 87.26% on-time performance and a 1.02% cancellation rate.
Western Cape Minister of Finance and Economic Opportunities Mireille Wenger announced earlier this week that preliminary stats received from Airports Company South Africa shows that Cape Town International Airport is making a spectacular recovery in passenger numbers during peak season compared to pre-pandemic numbers.
The airport recorded a whopping 266 656 international 2-way passenger numbers for December 2022, resulting in a 95% recovery when compared to December 2019.
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