{"id":277175,"date":"2018-10-12T15:04:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T13:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=277175"},"modified":"2018-10-12T15:09:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T13:09:14","slug":"the-best-and-worst-airlines-in-south-africa-when-it-comes-to-running-on-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/277175\/the-best-and-worst-airlines-in-south-africa-when-it-comes-to-running-on-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The best and worst airlines in South Africa – when it comes to running on time"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Airports Company South Africa (Acsa) has released its latest on-time statistics for 2018.<\/p>\n

The statistics look at the departure times of South Africa’s most prominent local carriers, across the country’s three biggest airports.<\/p>\n

“Airport operational efficiency is measured through different measures, with on-time performance being the primary internationally accepted standard,” Acsa explained.<\/p>\n

“On-time performance is measured by comparing the actual off-block time (when aircraft pushes back) against the airline schedule time for a departing flight.<\/p>\n

“The measurement is done in accordance with the IATA (International Airlines Transport Association) universal standard benchmark which considers a 15-minute deviation from the scheduled time as an on-time departure.<\/p>\n

“The on-time performance of the airlines is then averaged for a specific airport to produce the on-time performance for the airport,” it said.<\/p>\n

You can find on-time performance data for Cape Town, OR Tambo and King Shaka International airport detailed below.<\/p>\n

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OR Tambo International Airport (Gauteng)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Rank<\/th>\nAirline<\/th>\nAirport Target<\/th>\n15 min on-time performance (September 2018)<\/th>\n15 min on-time performance (year to date)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nFlysafair<\/td>\n87%<\/td>\n90.12%<\/td>\n93.80%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nSouth African Airways<\/td>\n87%<\/td>\n82.96%<\/td>\n87.14%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nAirlink<\/td>\n87%<\/td>\n83.92%<\/td>\n85.09%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nMango.com<\/td>\n87%<\/td>\n77.05%<\/td>\n79.29%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nBritish Airways Domestic<\/td>\n87%<\/td>\n71.38%<\/td>\n78.52%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nKulula.com<\/td>\n87%<\/td>\n70.18%<\/td>\n77.15%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nCemAir<\/td>\n87%<\/td>\n77.39%<\/td>\n77.12%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nSA Express<\/td>\n87%<\/td>\n88.77%<\/td>\n68.98%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Cape Town International Airport (Western Cape)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Rank<\/th>\nAirline<\/th>\nAirport Target<\/th>\n15 min on-time performance (September 2018)<\/th>\n15 min on-time performance (year to date)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nFlysafair<\/td>\n90%<\/td>\n91.76%<\/td>\n92.28%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nSouth African Airways<\/td>\n90%<\/td>\n88.07%<\/td>\n91.13%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nAirlink<\/td>\n90%<\/td>\n80.96%<\/td>\n86.19%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nMango.com<\/td>\n90%<\/td>\n80.21%<\/td>\n82.51%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nBritish Airways Domestic<\/td>\n90%<\/td>\n70.17%<\/td>\n78.96%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nCemAir<\/td>\n90%<\/td>\n82.46%<\/td>\n78.04%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nKulula.com<\/td>\n90%<\/td>\n65.84%<\/td>\n77.67%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nSA Express<\/td>\n90%<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n73.05%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

King Shaka International Airport (KZN)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Rank<\/th>\nAirline<\/th>\nAirport Target<\/th>\n15 min on-time performance (September 2018)<\/th>\n15 min on-time performance (year to date)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nFlysafair<\/td>\n91%<\/td>\n94.81%<\/td>\n95.12%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nAirlink<\/td>\n91%<\/td>\n90.46%<\/td>\n91.07%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nSouth African Airways<\/td>\n91%<\/td>\n83.30%<\/td>\n\u00a090.47%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nMango.com<\/td>\n91%<\/td>\n84.51%<\/td>\n85.63%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nBritish Airways Domestic<\/td>\n91%<\/td>\n76.75%<\/td>\n81.04%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nKulula.com<\/td>\n91%<\/td>\n67.63%<\/td>\n78.02%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nSA Express<\/td>\n91%<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n\u00a066.96%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The statistics look at the departure times of South Africa’s most prominent local carriers, across the country’s three biggest airports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":247271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-277175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277175"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277215,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277175\/revisions\/277215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}