Punctuality from UK airports has reached the best levels since records began in 1992.
Figures released by the CAA today show 84% of scheduled flights landed ‘on-time’ between January and March 2014.
The figure was six percentage points higher than the same period in 2014.
The five biggest London airports – Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton and London City – saw an overall increase of eight percentage points of on-time flights as a proportion of total scheduled flights, rising from 76% to 84%.
At the five other airports monitored – Manchester, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Glasgow and Newcastle – punctuality rose by six percentage points, from 81% to 87%.
Individually, all 10 airports saw punctuality improvements, with the biggest increase at Newcastle, which achieved an increase of nine percentage points.
An ‘on-time’ flight is defined as landing/arriving at its destination either early or up to 15 minutes late.
The average delay across all the monitored scheduled flights was nine minutes, which is a reduction of four minutes when compared to the first quarter of 2013.
Meanwhile, there were also improvements with charter flights.
The overall on-time performance for charter flights was 76%, an increase of seven percentage points compared to last year. The average delay fell by five minutes.
Of the busiest 75 scheduled international destinations, Rotterdam recorded the highest on-time performance with 91.7% and Hannover had the lowest average delay of 5.1 minutes.
Flights to and from Dubai achieved the lowest on-time performance with 63.4% and Delhi had the highest average delay of 28.3 minutes
