Philippine Airlines (PAL) ranked among the top 10 most punctual airlines in the Asia-Pacific region in 2023, with 83 percent on-time flights last December, ahead of most carriers in Southeast Asia, China and Australia.
PAL was the second most punctual Asia-Pacific airline in December 2023, with 83.08 percent of its flights arriving on schedule. This ranking, second only to a Thailand regional airline, was revealed in the recently published Cirium On-Time Performance Report.
Last year, PAL also ranked third in September and November with 84 percent and 83 percent on-time arrival performance; in October last year, PAL ranked fourth with 82.7 percent on-time flights and also in August ranked 7th with 75.4 percent on-time flights.
For 2023 overall, PAL placed eighth among the top airline performers for the Asia Pacific region and was the only Philippine carrier to reach the top ranks.
For the entire 2023, PAL recorded an on-time arrival performance of 77.5 percent, covering approximately 105,000 recorded flights across the airline’s global network. It surpassed the 73.5 percent average logged for 3.76 million individual flights operated by airlines across the Asia-Pacific region.
“We are grateful to all our customers and stakeholders for their support, to our employees for their teamwork and dedication, and to our government authorities whose productive collaboration and partnership helped us achieve the operational efficiencies needed to earn this ranking among the top ten,” said Capt. Stanley Ng, PAL president and chief operating officer. “We acknowledge that there is still room for improvement. I assure our passengers that the Philippine Airlines team will work even harder to sustain and improve our current performance.”
Airlines from Japan, Thailand, India, New Zealand, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, and Hong Kong rounded out the top ten list for 2023.
The London-based Cirium is the leading international data analytics source for aviation. Cirium has been tracking the on-time performance of airlines and airports around the world for more than 15 years to produce the longest-standing punctuality analysis in global aviation.
