If you’re preparing a vacation and anxious concerning trip hold-ups spoiling your strategies, there are some airports you need to be certain in operation—and others you need to most likely attempt to prevent.

Not all airports have the very same document of preparation, and the current yearly record, released Tuesday, by AirHelp, an insurance claims administration firm that helps tourists taking care of terminated or postponed flights, has actually ground the numbers to reveal it. 

According to Airhelp’s position of 239 airports throughout 69 nations, the airports with the greatest percent of on-time flights—based upon flights taken in between May 1, 2023, and April 30, 2024—are listed here. AirHelp thinks about a trip “on time” if it gets here no behind 15 mins after its released arrival time, and the firm claims it doesn’t make use of price quotes for its data source however instead the “most authoritative” numbers.

1. Cape Town Airport, South Africa (86%)

2. Brasília–Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek Airport, Brazil (86%)

3. Panama City Tocumen, Panama (86%)

4. Chubu Centrair Airport, Japan (85%)

5. Osaka Itami Airport, Japan (85%)

6. Salt Lake City Airport, United States (84%)

7. Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport, United States (84%)

8. Doha Hamad Airport, Qatar (83%)

9. Belém/Val-de-Cans Airport, Brazil (83%)

10. Bogotá El Dorado Airport, Colombia (83%)

11. Cartagena Rafael Núñez Airport, Colombia (83%)

12. Medellin Jose Maria Cordova Airport, Colombia (83%)

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Meanwhile, the 6 airports AirHelp ranked last on trip preparation, listed here, each had much less than 60% of their flights “on time.” 

239. Tunis Carthage Airport, Tunisia (48%)

238. London Gatwick Airport, United Kingdom (57%)

237. Antalya Airport, Turkey (58%)

236. Lisbon Humberto Delgado Airport, Portugal (58%)

235. Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport, Serbia (59%)

234. Dalaman Airport, Turkey (59%)

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AirHelp has actually stressed the financial and ecological expenses of trip hold-ups and terminations: In the U.S., they are approximated to set you back the economic situation as much as $34 billion a year, while trip interruptions create higher carbon exhausts as a result of much longer flying or cabbing times.

In 2023, one of the most typical factor for U.S. residential trip hold-ups, making up 40% of all hold-ups, was a previous airplane getting here late—influencing succeeding flights making use of the very same airplane, in a type of cause and effect began by an earlier hold-up—according to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Other typical factors for trip hold-ups consist of air service provider hold-up (36.4%) and nationwide air travel system hold-up (18.1%). Extreme climate represented 5.2% of trip hold-ups, while 0.2% of hold-ups resulted from safety factors. 

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AirHelp additionally provides a total position of the very best airports that consider tourists’ viewpoints on the high quality of customer support in addition to of patronize the airport terminal, along with trip preparation (which counts for 60% of the total rating). Coming ahead this year is Hamad International Airport in Doha, Qatar—which in a similar way covered one more yearly listing of best airports launched previously this year, ranked by Skytrax. Unlike AirHelp, Skytrax’s position does rule out trip preparation, rather analyzing airports with consumer studies on a substantial variety of variables consisting of simplicity of gain access to, migration queuing times, and WiFi solution. Hamad Airport is just one of just 2 airports—in addition to Japan’s Tokyo Narita Airport—to be ranked in the leading 10 of both Skytrax and AirHelp’s listings.

Other highly-rated airports that didn’t place high up on AirHelp’s listing consist of Singapore’s Changi Airport, which had actually for years been crowned the globe’s best by Skytrax however was ranked 24th by AirHelp due in big component to its 65th best trip preparation, with simply 77% of flights promptly; Dubai International Airport, which was called the globe’s most elegant airport terminal in one more record previously this year however 64th by AirHelp, with 72% of flights promptly; and Munich International Airport, which the Skytrax World Airport Awards identified in April as the very best in main Europe, however AirHelp ranked 161st total, with simply 70% of flights promptly.