The Philippine Airlines (PAL) ranks high among the top ten most punctual airlines in the Asia-Pacific region in 2023, leaving behind most Southeast Asian, Chinese, and Australian carriers in its wake.
The country’s flag carrier proved 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 Thai regional airline, was revealed in the recently published Cirium On-Time Performance Report.
In 2023, PAL placed eighth overall among the top airline performers in the Asia Pacific region and the only Philippine carrier to reach the top ranks.
PAL posted an on-time arrival performance of 77.46 percent in 2023, involving approximately 105,000 recorded flights across the airline’s global network.
The airline’s 77.46 percent on-time performance surpassed the average 73.51 percent noted in 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 COO Capt. Stanley K. 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 added.
Airlines from Japan, Thailand, India, New Zealand, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam and Hong Kong rounded 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.
