Cirium, a London-based aviation industry source for data analytics, has named the Philippine Airlines the most punctual airline in Asia-Pacific in January this year with an 86.85 percent on-time performance.
PAL moved up to number one in January, only a month after securing the 2nd most punctual Asia-Pacific airline distinction 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.
PAL president and chief operating officer Capt. Stanley K. Ng 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. “
“The 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,” he added.
Airlines from Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore and Thailand earned the 2nd to 5th place 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.
In September and November last year, PAL ranked 3rd with 8 percent and 83 percent in on-time arrival performance, respectively.
In October of the same year, PAL ranked fourth with 82.7 percent on-time flights; and in August, PAL ranked 7th with an OTP of 75.4 percent.
