JAL Named Best Asia-Pacific Airline for On-Time Performance in 2017

 Wednesday, January 17, 2018 

Japan Airlines (JAL) has been named the best on-time Asia-Pacific Major Airline for six consecutive years and eighth in total for its domestic and international flights operated in calendar year 2017 by FlightStats Inc., a US flight status tracking company that analyzes on-time arrival rates for global airlines. (*1)  JAL also took second place overall in the Major International Airlines category.

Under this category, flights operated by Japan Airlines achieved an on-time arrival rate of 85.60% for its domestic and international flights and the JAL Group achieved an on-time arrival rate of 86.09% in the Network category. As a result, JAL was named the best on-time Asia-Pacific Major Airline in both Mainline and Network categories by FlightStats.

Major International Airlines Category

Mainline – results of individual major international airlines having routes and flight frequency of a specified scale (*3)

Network – results of flights including those operated by Group airlines.

JAL was ranked the world’s second most punctual Major International Airline in both Mainline and Network categories.

JAL Group regards punctuality as an essential service quality of the airline and understands that these awards were made possible through the cooperation of our valued customers and efforts made by all staff to ensure on-time operations.

The company will embrace the challenge to further improve on-time performance with top priority on flight safety, and will strive to provide high-quality services and punctual operations.

Source:- JAL

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