South Africa’s three largest airports have made the top ten in an annual survey of on-time performance undertaken by global travel data firm OAG.
The company’s punctuality league is based on 57.7 million flight records using full-year data from 2019 to create a ranking of the best on-time performance for the world’s largest airlines and airports.
In the large airport category OR Tambo International Airport came in at 10th with 83.01% flights arriving on time.
Cape Town International Airport placed second in the medium category (83.59%), while King Shaka International Airport came in at ninth position in the small airports stakes. (83.59%).
The top performing airline, according to Deon Cloete, acting group executive: airports management at Airports Company South Africa, was FlySafair, which produced on-time performance of 94.4%. Globally, only Garuda Airlines of Indonesia scored higher (95.01%).
