CAAC: Ranking of Airline On-time Performance in September 2015

The on-time performance of Chinese passenger airlines averaged 73.87 % in September 2015, up 11.33 percentage points year on year and 16.76 percentage points month on month, according to the data released by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) on October 21.

Data shows that 34 passenger airlines operated 285,203 flights in September and delivered 73.87% of their flights on time. Flights were delayed or cancelled due to air traffic control (29.08%), weather (27.25%), military activities (18.99%) and airlines' own problems (17.32%), according to CAAC.

Joy Air earned the top spot out of the nation's 34 passenger airlines, with 88.87 % of its flights arriving as scheduled in August, followed by Qingdao Airlines and Shandong Airlines with 87.69 % and 81.82 %, respectively.

Yunnan Ying'an Airlines was ranked at the bottom of the list with only 48.21 % of its flights operated on time.

Thirteen airlines' on-time performance was higher than the average rate, including Joy Air, Qingdao Airlines, Shandong Airlines, Juneyao Airlines, Air China, Loong Air, Hainan Airlines, Kunming Airlines, Sichuan Airlines, Capital Airlines, Okay Airways, China Southern Airlines and Shanghai Airlines.

The 10 major airlines, operating more than and including 200 flights daily, delivered 74.37% of their flights as scheduled on average, up 11.24 percentage points year on year and 16.57 percentage points month on month.

In September, flights were delayed by 14 minutes on average, 7 minutes less than last year and 18 minutes less than last month. Among all the unpunctual flights, 25,694 were delayed by less than 30 minutes ( 36.61%), 21,619 delayed by 30 minutes and 1 hour (30.81%), 14,416 delayed by 1-2 hours (20.54%), 5,129 delayed by 2-4 hours (7.31%) and 1,743 delayed by over 4 hours (2.48%).