Finnair named Europe’s most punctual airline in 2014

(Warsaw 29.1.2015) Finnair had the best on-time performance in 2014 among European major carriers with 90.58 per cent of flights arriving on time, according to FlightStats, the airline industry data services company.

FlightStats also recognised Finnair’s oneworld alliance, which consists of 15 leading airlines from each global region and their affiliates, as the most reliably punctual airline alliance globally, with a collective on-time performance rate of 79.97 per cent.

The FlightStats’ award is based on its analysis of some 32 million flights operated by 250 airlines globally in the past year, which showed that Finnair and oneworld members maintained a more punctual operation across the 12 months than their counterparts in the other global airline groups.

Besides Finnair, also other oneworld members rated highly in FlightStats’ 2014 awards for individual airlines. Among “major global carriers”, four of the alliance’s members were listed among the world’s ten most punctual – Iberia (third, with 88.46 per cent of its flights arriving on time), Japan Airlines (fourth, 87.78 per cent), airberlin (eighth, 85.70 per cent) and LAN Airlines (ninth, 85.63 per cent).

In the Asia Pacific region, Japan Airlines was the most punctual major airline for the third year in a row, with Qantas eighth. Qatar Airways was third in the Middle East and Africa category, with Royal Jordanian seventh. LAN Airlines was second among the major Latin American airlines, with TAM Airlines fourth. In North America, US Airways had the sixth best on-time record, with its merger partner American Airlines also ranked in the Top 10.

The most punctual low-cost carrier globally was oneworld affiliate member Iberia Express.

FlightStats says the awards are “designed to recognise those airlines and airports that demonstrate consistently high performance and deliver on their promise to get passengers to their destinations in a timely manner.”

The 15 member airlines of oneworld and their affiliated carriers serve almost a thousand destinations in more than 150 countries, boarding 1.4 million customers daily. For its survey, FlightStats analysed 3,713,154 oneworld flights operated in 2014.

For full details, see www.flightstats.com.

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Finnair flies between Asia, Europe and North America with an emphasis on fast connections via Helsinki, carrying more than nine million passengers annually and connecting 15 cities in Asia with more than 60 destinations in Europe. The airline, a pioneer in sustainable flying, will be the European launch customer of the next-generation, eco-smart Airbus A350 XWB aircraft and is the first airline listed in the Leadership Index of the worldwide Carbon Disclosure Project. The only Nordic carrier with a 4-star Skytrax ranking, Finnair has also won the World Airline Award for Best Airline Northern Europe for the past five years running. Finnair is a member of oneworld, the alliance of the world's leading airlines committed to providing the highest level of service and convenience to frequent international travellers.