Cirium, a London-based aviation industry source for data analytics, identified Philippine Airlines as the most punctual airline in the Asia-Pacific region in January 2024, with an impressive 86.85-percent on-time performance.
PAL moved up to the number one ranking in January, a month after securing the second most punctual Asia-Pacific airline rank in December 2023.
“Philippine Airlines was the regional leader in January with an OTP of 86.85 percent, a near 4-point improvement from December’s performance,” Cirium said.
“We thank our PAL Group team for the dynamic team effort and commitment towards enhancing business efficiency and operational performance. We are likewise grateful to our government authorities for ongoing airport and airspace system improvements that enabled us to perform more efficiently,” PAL president and chief operating officer Capt. Stanley Ng said in a statement.
“Philippine Airlines will continue to work in unison with government and industry partners to sustain and boost on-time performance in the interest of the flying public and the travel and tourism industry at large,” Ng said.
Airlines from Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore and Thailand earned the second to fifth slots in the Cirium top five list for January. Carriers from New Zealand, Indonesia, Hong Kong and Japan rounded out the full top ten.
PAL consistently ranked among the top 10 most punctual airlines in the Asia-Pacific region in the last five months of 2023, ahead of most carriers in Southeast Asia, China and Australia.
PAL ranked 3rd in September and November last year with 84 percent and 83 percent in on-time arrival performance, respectively.
It ranked fourth in October with 82.7 percent on-time flights; and in August, it was 7th with an OTP of 75.4 percent.