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Charter airlines dramatically improve performance
UK: Air users’ group praises carriers as delays become shorter
Charter airlines have been praised by an air passengers’ group after they dramatically improved their performance over the last year.
Last year British charter carriers dramatically improved their performance over the previous year, in terms of reliability and timing. Taking into account all charter flights in and out of major UK airports, the Air Transport Users’ Council (AUC) said 10 per cent of services were more than one hour late, compared to more than 15 per cent in 2001.
The best performed monitored by the group was JMC, which has only 4.2 per cent of its services an hour or more late, while at the opposite end of the scale was Transjet, from Sweden, which was an hour late on more than two thirds of its flights. Across the board, the average delay was reduced from 35.6 minutes to 23.7 minutes.
Ian Hamer, AUC chairman, said: “Airlines have done something about their punctuality as we applaud them for their efforts. These are by far the best figures we have seen since we started publishing these tables six years ago.”
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