A London-based aviation industry source of data analytics cited Philippine Airlines (PAL) as the "most punctual airline" in the Asia-Pacific region.
The flag carrier rose to the top spot in the rankings in January, following a second place finish for punctuality among Asia-Pacific airlines 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 disclosed in its recently published Cirium On-Time Performance (OTP) Report.
"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. 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," PAL President and Chief Operating Officer Stanley K. Ng said.
Airlines from Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore and Thailand earned the second to fifth place slots in the Cirium top five list for January.
Carriers from New Zealand, Indonesia, Hong Kong and Japan rounded out the top ten.
The flag carrier 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 of last year, PAL registered third with 84 percent and 83 percent in on-time arrival performance, respectively.
In October 2023, PAL ranked fourth with 82.7 percent on-time flights, and in August, it ranked seventh with an OTP of 75.4 percent.
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