Bad weather hits flight punctuality figures
12.06.10
Flight punctuality at UK airports dropped in the first quarter of 2010, largely as a result of the bad weather in January, figures from the CAA reveal. At the ten airports monitored by the group on-time performance was achieved by just 74% of flights in January to March, 7% lower than the same quarter last year. Flight numbers at the airports dropped also by 7%.
Heathrow scheduled flights’ on-time performance fell by 6% and average delay increased by 4 minutes to 16 minutes. Gatwick and Luton’s performance fell by 11%, Stansted’s by 5% and London City by 9%.
Across the ten airports, the proportion of on-time charter flights fell by 6% to 62% with an average delay of 35 minutes, 12 minutes more than last year. Passengers flying to and from the Isle of Man were the least likely to experience delay, the island had the highest on-time performance with 87% and the shortest average delay of 8 minutes. Istanbul had the worst on-time performance at just 43%, and flights to and from Toronto had the highest average delay of 39 minutes.
The CAA also revealed that in the first quarter there were 304,000 scheduled flights and 18,000 charter flights at the 10 airports, a 6% and 11% drop respectively on last year.
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