Austrian Airlines was the most punctual airline worldwide in March 2017

Austrian Airlines was the world’s most punctual airline in March 2017.

This can be seen in the latest statistics from flightstats.com for global airlines. With an arrival on-time rate of 92.72%, Austrian Airlines was ahead of Spanish Iberia (90.74%) and Singapore Airlines (89.19%). Punctuality is measured in the airline industry with <15 minutes. This means that all flights within the 15-minute time window are considered as punctual. Alitalia (88.73%) was in fourth place, while Lufthansa ranked fifth (87.80%). The other placements were: Polish LOT (87.54%), Japanese JAL (87.17%), Japanese ANA (86.72%), Scandinavian SAS (86.22% ) and Arabian Etihad Airways (85.83%) on place ten.