Along with price or comfort, punctuality is a determining factor in the reliability of an airline.
And on this criterion, not all are equal, as evidenced by the ranking established by Bloomberg.
The economic media specialist used data from the aeronautical analysis company Cirium to establish the ranking of the 19 major air carriers that canceled the most flights between April 26 and July 26, 2022.
The British company
Virgin Atlantic
climbed to the top of the ranking with 5.9% of the flight program canceled over this period, or 2,200 flights.
It is followed by the Dutch
KLM
(5.8%) and
Air New Zealand
(3.7%).
In Europe,
Air France
and
Ryanair
are doing quite well with respectively 0.9 and 0.7% of flights canceled in the last three months.
But the best students are to be found in Asia:
Singapore Airlines
,
Cathay Pacific
and
Air Asia
record less than 0.3% cancellations.
Airlines that canceled the most flights between April 26 and July 26, 2022:
Virgin Atlantic: 5.9%
KLM: 5.8%
Air New Zealand: 3.7%
Quantas: 3.3%
Lufthansa: 3.1%
British Airways: 3%
American Airlines: 2.6%
United Airlines: 2.6%
Delta Airlines: 2.5%
Iberia: 1.5%
Latam Airlines: 1.2%
Air France: 0.9%
Ryanair: 0.7%
Japan Airlines: 0.6%
ANA: 0.5%
Southwest Airlines: 0.5%
AirAsia: 0.3%
Cathay Pacific: 0.3%
Singapore Airlines: 0.1%
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Lack of manpower
The disruptions are largely explained by the lack of manpower that both airlines and airports are suffering in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
A shortage of staff at the origin, this summer, of major strike movements and monster chaos in certain European airports, such as Amsterdam-Schiphol and London-Heathrow.
“
After laying off tens of thousands of pilots, crew, baggage handlers and security personnel during the pandemic, the industry cannot hire fast enough to keep pace
,”
Bloomberg
points out .
A pace that is accelerating, as evidenced by the more sustained tourist recovery than expected.
Also according to Cirium, 25,000 flight cancellations are expected in August, more than half of them in Europe.
A figure which has something to challenge, but which represents little in view of the more than 3 million take-offs planned for August worldwide.
In Europe, this represents 2% of the flight program.