Travelers view the arrival and departure boards on the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021.
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Air journey demand continued to surge in 2024, led by a bounce again in worldwide journeys.
From January by means of October alone, revenue-passenger miles worldwide, a requirement metric, was up practically 11% over final yr, based on the International Air Transport Association. In 2025, IATA estimates plane departures of 40 million, up 4.6% from 2024.
Airlines scrambled so as to add flights and improve premium seating, which brings in larger income, particularly on long-haul journeys. Challenges from shortages of new aircraft to monetary strife continued for some carriers, nevertheless, many passengers did not face the identical flight disruptions as they did throughout acute staffing shortages popping out of the pandemic.
An Aeromexico airplane prepares to land on the airstrip at Benito Juarez worldwide airport in Mexico City, Mexico.
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The most on-time airways spanned the globe, based on a rating launched Thursday by Cirium. The aviation information agency considers punctuality an arrival that happens inside quarter-hour of the scheduled time. Delta Air Lines topped the North American rating regardless of its struggle to recover from the CrowdStrike outage in July that canceled hundreds of flights.
Here’s how the world’s carriers fared:
(On-time charge in parenthesis)
- Aeromexico (86.7%)
- Saudia Airlines (86.35%)
- Delta Air Lines (83.46%)
- LATAM Airlines (82.89%)
- Qatar Airways (82.83%)
- Azul Airlines (82.42%)
- Avianca (81.80%)
- Iberia (81.58%)
- Scandinavian Airlines (81.40%)
- United Airlines (80.93%)
