Cyrium, a London-based aviation analytics company, named Philippine Airlines (PAL) among the ten most punctual airlines in the Asia-Pacific region in 2023, ahead of most Southeast Asian, Chinese, and Australian carriers.
The Philippines’ flag carrier 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.
PAL placed eighth among the Top Airline Performers for the Asia Pacific region overall, and was the only Philippine carrier to reach the top ranks.
PAL recorded an on-time arrival performance of 77.46 percent in 2023, covering about 105,000 recorded flights across the airline’s global network.
The airline’s 77.46 percent on-time performance surpassed the 73.51-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 PAL president and chief operating officer Capt. Stanley Ng.
“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,” he said.
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.