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Timetable compiler OAG has just released its 2017 'league table' that has been expanded.
Melbourne - Sydney is said to be the second busiest domestic air route worldwide - only CJU - GMP in South Korea is busier.
Previously, most league tables have said MEL - SYD was the fourth or third busiest as the tables have lumped domestic and international routes together.
In 2017, 'on time performance' for MEL - SYD - MEL (which OAG measures as less than 15 minutes late, but uses the terms 'arrivals and departures' whereas the only metric that matters is 'arrival') was a very poor 74.1 per cent overall.
It suggests on this route that QF was punctual 83.6 per cent of the time, VA 77.9, TT 65.6 and the worst JQ with 65 per cent (or put another way, 35 per cent of flights 15 minutes or more late which is absymal).
What this airline-centred blog fails to mention is that if there was high speed rail between MEL - SYD, in line with international best practice one could expect 99 per cent of trains to be within 15 minutes late, and a very competitive by total travel time, more pleasant travelling experience. It's up to our Federal politicians to introduce this.
BNE - SYD had on-time performance of 79.28 per cent and BNE - MEL 79.18 per cent. Respectively these are ranked the 8th and 14th busiest worldwide domestic air routes by OAG.
Many other domestic routes internationally were lower though: LAX - SFO was only at 63.86 per cent - in other words, more than 1 in 3 flights were at least 15 minutes late - and PEK - SZX was a very poor 50.04 per cent.
cough - HND was under 84 per cent: not the image that many have in our minds of almost perfect punctuality in Japan: true for trains but not airlines.
Our two major airports in MEL and SYD were poor in overall punctuality (all flights measured, so no differentiation between international and domestic flights). Melbourne came in at 79.04 per cent; Sydney at 78.29 per cent. Given that we don't have to contend with snow and ice, or typhoons/cyclones, this is poor.
These two airports are both classified as 'major' with '20 to 30 million departing seats per annum.' 'Mega' is above that with HND managing 86.75 per cent 'on time.'
In the 'large' category (10 to 20m departing seats pa), BNE managed 83.71 per cent OTP; in the next category down, PER was at 84.2 and rustbucket SA's representative ADL at 83.57 per cent. However only 86.2 per cent of PER flights were monitored: was the difficulty covering flights to and from mines?
In the 'small' category (2.5 to 5m departing seats pa), Cairns OTP came in at 85.25 per cent.
Hong Kong Airlines came top in punctuality for Asia Pacific at 88.83 per cent of all flights but strangely only 82.3 per cent of its flights were monitored, which is a low figure. One would want to know the performance of the almost 1 in 5 flights not counted to better assess timekeeping.
QF was second at 86.18 per cent, dropping a place, but again only 91.9 per cent of its flights were included.
VA was 10th at 81.06 per cent but had a much higher 97.2 per cent of its flights included in the calculations, so if the missing QF flights were unpunctual ones, that would cause its true timekeeping to drop a bit.
For mega airlines, JL was top of the tree with 85.27 and NH second with 83.81. Surprisingly, DL was third with 82.76 and UA sixth not far behind. This is better for these USA airlines than media overage implies and is in a country with arguably more climatic and maybe airfield challenges than Australia (though perhaps not as bad in California as in Chicago or New York).
Melbourne - Sydney is said to be the second busiest domestic air route worldwide - only CJU - GMP in South Korea is busier.
Previously, most league tables have said MEL - SYD was the fourth or third busiest as the tables have lumped domestic and international routes together.
In 2017, 'on time performance' for MEL - SYD - MEL (which OAG measures as less than 15 minutes late, but uses the terms 'arrivals and departures' whereas the only metric that matters is 'arrival') was a very poor 74.1 per cent overall.
It suggests on this route that QF was punctual 83.6 per cent of the time, VA 77.9, TT 65.6 and the worst JQ with 65 per cent (or put another way, 35 per cent of flights 15 minutes or more late which is absymal).
What this airline-centred blog fails to mention is that if there was high speed rail between MEL - SYD, in line with international best practice one could expect 99 per cent of trains to be within 15 minutes late, and a very competitive by total travel time, more pleasant travelling experience. It's up to our Federal politicians to introduce this.
BNE - SYD had on-time performance of 79.28 per cent and BNE - MEL 79.18 per cent. Respectively these are ranked the 8th and 14th busiest worldwide domestic air routes by OAG.
Many other domestic routes internationally were lower though: LAX - SFO was only at 63.86 per cent - in other words, more than 1 in 3 flights were at least 15 minutes late - and PEK - SZX was a very poor 50.04 per cent.
cough - HND was under 84 per cent: not the image that many have in our minds of almost perfect punctuality in Japan: true for trains but not airlines.
Our two major airports in MEL and SYD were poor in overall punctuality (all flights measured, so no differentiation between international and domestic flights). Melbourne came in at 79.04 per cent; Sydney at 78.29 per cent. Given that we don't have to contend with snow and ice, or typhoons/cyclones, this is poor.
These two airports are both classified as 'major' with '20 to 30 million departing seats per annum.' 'Mega' is above that with HND managing 86.75 per cent 'on time.'
In the 'large' category (10 to 20m departing seats pa), BNE managed 83.71 per cent OTP; in the next category down, PER was at 84.2 and rustbucket SA's representative ADL at 83.57 per cent. However only 86.2 per cent of PER flights were monitored: was the difficulty covering flights to and from mines?
In the 'small' category (2.5 to 5m departing seats pa), Cairns OTP came in at 85.25 per cent.
Hong Kong Airlines came top in punctuality for Asia Pacific at 88.83 per cent of all flights but strangely only 82.3 per cent of its flights were monitored, which is a low figure. One would want to know the performance of the almost 1 in 5 flights not counted to better assess timekeeping.
QF was second at 86.18 per cent, dropping a place, but again only 91.9 per cent of its flights were included.
VA was 10th at 81.06 per cent but had a much higher 97.2 per cent of its flights included in the calculations, so if the missing QF flights were unpunctual ones, that would cause its true timekeeping to drop a bit.
For mega airlines, JL was top of the tree with 85.27 and NH second with 83.81. Surprisingly, DL was third with 82.76 and UA sixth not far behind. This is better for these USA airlines than media overage implies and is in a country with arguably more climatic and maybe airfield challenges than Australia (though perhaps not as bad in California as in Chicago or New York).
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