Airline punctuality fell below the long term average in February as the number of cancellations edged upwards with Virgin Australia leading the trend, new figures have shown.
On time performance for departures averaged 77.3% for the month, while arrivals came in at 73.9%. The figures mark a decline on last February’s figures of 82.8% and 80.6% respectively and long term averages of 83.7% and 82.3%.
Meanwhile, cancellations totalled 2.2% of all scheduled services, above last February’s figure of 1.5% and the long term average of 1.3%.
Qantas was the most punctual airline across the board with 83.5% of departures and 80.2% of arrivals on schedule. Tiger came second with 78.2% of departures and 73.8% of arrivals on time. In third place was Jetstar, with 72.2% of departures and 72.4% of arrivals on time while Virgin Australia came fourth with 70.6% of departures and 66.7% of arrivals on schedule.
The regional airlines were led by Regional Express for both departures and arrivals with 83.3% and 78.4% respectively while Virgin Australia’s ATR/F100 operations brought up the rear with 75% and 71.9%.
Virgin’s ATR operations also had the highest rate of cancellations with 5.1% of scheduled services not making it off the ground.
