PAL among ‘Most On-Time Airlines’ in Asia Pacific in 2023

MANILA—The Philippine Airlines (PAL) was ranked among the top ten most punctual airlines in the Asia-Pacific region for 2023, ahead of most Southeast Asian, Chinese and Australian carriers and was also the second most punctual Asia-Pacific airline in December 2023, with 83.08% of its flights arriving on schedule. 

“We are grateful to all our customers and stakeholders for their support, to our employees for their teamwork and dedication, and to our government authorities whose productive collaboration and partnership helped us achieve the operational efficiencies needed to earn this ranking among the top ten,” PAL President and COO Capt. Stanley Ng said.

Ng acknowledged that there is still room for improvement and he assured its passengers that the PAL team will work even harder to sustain and improve its current performance.  This ranking, second only to a Thailand regional airline, was revealed in the recently published Cirium On-Time Performance Report.  

For 2023 overall, PAL placed eighth among the Top Airline Performers for the Asia Pacific region, and was the only Philippine carrier to reach the top ranks. The full-year ranking comes after five consecutive months of top ratings for PAL:

PAL achieved the 3rd most punctual spot in September and November 2023, recording an 84.27 percent on-time arrival performance in November and 83.38 percent in September; PAL ranked 4th in October 2023 with 82.74 percent on-time flights and it ranked 7th in August 2023 with 75.36 percent on-time flights.

For the entire 2023, PAL recorded an on-time arrival performance of 77.46 percent, covering approximately 105,000 recorded flights across the airline’s global network. This surpassed the 73.51 percent average logged for 3.76 million individual flights operated by airlines across the Asia-Pacific region.

Airlines from Japan, Thailand, India, New Zealand, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam and Hong Kong rounded out the top ten list for 2023. 

The London-based Cirium is the leading international data analytics source for aviation.  Cirium has been tracking the on-time performance of airlines and airports around the world for more than 15 years to produce the longest-standing punctuality analysis in global aviation. (Photos: PAL FB/Google Images)