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– TAP Air Portugal is the company with the most delays in 2024.
“Flight 8 780 to Rome, initially scheduled for 12:14 p.m., will depart with a delay of 2 hours”. This type of announcement, feared by passengers at airports, nevertheless remains common. In 2024, delayed or canceled flights have once again punctuated the year. “Strikes, global IT failure, or even weather hazards… The air sector has once again been significantly shaken up in 2024, particularly during the summer”says Flightright, specializing in compensation for passengers who are victims of air disruptions. The company has established a ranking of the European companies having recorded the most delays this year.
TAP Air Portugal takes first place in the ranking of the most delayed airlines in 2024, with a delay rate of 32.10% on 109,507 flights carried out. This means that more than one in three flights of the Portuguese company were delayed by more than 15 minutes. On the second step of the podium, we find Jet2, a British low-cost airline, with a delay rate of 29.54%. Third place goes to EasyJet, one of the leaders in the low-cost market, which has a delay rate of 28.93% on more than 540,000 flights operated between January 1 and December 13, 2024.
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Air France in eighth place among the most delayed airlines in 2024
Air France is doing quite well, “despite its status as official carrier of the Paris Olympics”. The French company knew “minimize disruption and is only eighth among the most delayed companies this year”comments Flightright. The French company has a delay rate of 23.48% on a total of more than 258,000 flights departing from all over Europe.
Concerning canceled flights, Air France also ranks 8th place with a cancellation rate of 1.16% in 2024. At the top of this ranking, Lufthansa takes first place with 2.81% of canceled flights out of more than 458,000 connections made. The German group’s subsidiaries are not left out: Swiss International Air Lines AG is in fourth place with a cancellation rate of 1.45%, while Eurowings is in fifth place with a cancellation rate of 1.45%. .39%.
The podium is completed by British Airways in 2nd place (2.14% cancellations) and KLM in 3rd place (1.67%). “Wizz Air Malta which proves to be one of the most reliable airline players when it comes to maintaining scheduled flights. A low-cost operator, which will not fail to surprise! Of the 128,432 flights carried out, only 372 did not leave the runway.underlines Flightright. For its part, Ryanair, leader of the low-cost market, also shows good results with a cancellation rate of only 0.17%, placing itself in 21st position.
