Cirium releases its annual on-time performance list, with Aeromexico topping the global rankings. The Mexico City-based carrier achieved an 86.7% on-time performance, a significant improvement from the previous year. This success follows Aeromexico's emergence from bankruptcy in 2022 and its subsequent investments in technological upgrades.
If the latest round of airline delays over the holiday season has you feeling anxious about your next flight, the 2024 annual on-time performance list from Cirium, published on Jan. 2, may help. The aviation analytics firm analyzes more than 25 million data points from 600-plus sources each day to determine whether airlines are meeting their scheduled arrival times. A flight is considered punctual if it arrives within 14 minutes and 59 seconds of its scheduled landing time.
Only air carriers that exceed a threshold of operational size and regional diversity are eligible for the global rankings. After conducting a review of how its data added up over the course of 2024, Cirium’s most on-time airline in 2024 — with 86.7% of flights arriving on time — is Aeromexico. For the Mexico City-based carrier, that number represents a 9% improvement from the year prior: “an astronomical rise,” as Cirium put it during a press conference. The accolade caps off a turnaround story that started in 2022 when Grupo Aeromexico SAB de CV emerged from bankruptcy. In the two years since, it’s “relentlessly” invested in technological upgrades to improve on-time records and increased profits, says Mike Malik, chief marketing officer at Cirium. Amid all the momentum, Aeromexico filed for an initial public offering in the US in May 2024, seeking to raise as much as $500 million. Following in second place in Cirium’s list is Jeddah-based Saudi Arabian Airlines (better known as Saudia), with an 86.35% on-time performance. Delta Air Lines Inc. came in third place, at 83.46%, in spite of the CrowdStrike software malfunction that led to a global ground stop in July. The airline was slower to recover than its competitors, canceling approximately 7,000 flights over subsequent day
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