Air Canada ranks last in on-time performance among 10 biggest North American airlines
Fifty-one per cent of’s flights arrived at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled hour, according to aviation data company Cirium. Calgary-based WestJet Airlines Ltd. Airlines placed seventh in Cirium’s monthly report scheduled to be released on Thursday.
Cirium, a provider of aviation data to the industry, ranks the 10 biggest airlines in a given region, based on flights and capacity. Of the 751,000 North American flights tracked in July, just 66 per cent arrived on time. This compares with 82 per cent globally, 74 per cent in Europe, 76 per cent in Asia-Pacific and 81 per cent in Latin America. Chile’s LATAM Airlines leads the global list, with an on-time score of 85 per cent.
Barry Prentice, a transportation professor at University of Manitoba, said the poor performance of Canadian airlines is likely because they were shut down in the pandemic for longer than most of their global peers. And when they restarted, it was with new and inexperienced employees in some positions.
WestJet spokeswoman Denise Kenny said operations were affected by several factors in July. “The most significant contributors [were] weather impacts due to the ongoing thunderstorms we saw across Western Canada and third-party delays incurred from service partners across the aviation ecosystem,” Ms. Kenny said in an e-mail.
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