
Frontier Airlines: The ultra-low-cost carrier flew over 170,000 flights in 2022 and a little over 68% of them arrived on time.ħ. Prior to Southwest Airlines’ recent holiday season operational meltdown, its on-time performance had been closer to 75%.Ħ. Unlike most major carriers, the Dallas-based airline’s network is based on a point-to-point model rather than a hub-and-spoke model. Slightly over 74% of these flights arrived on time. Southwest Airlines: With over 1.3 million flights, Southwest had the highest number of flights tracked in the North American review.

Over 78% of the approximately 1 million flights tracked arrived on time.ĥ. American Airlines: The worst-performing of the “big three” is American.

Before Delta won the top spot in 2017, Alaska was named as North America’s most punctual airline from 2011 to 2016.Ĥ. 80.36% of the carrier’s more than 240,000 flights arrived on time. Alaska Airlines: The Seattle-based airline took a close third place in this year’s rankings, despite some operational hiccups during the summer due to staffing issues. United Airlines: In third place is United, with 80.46% of its nearly 790,000 flights being marked as on-time by Cirium.ģ. After seeing widespread cancellations and delays throughout its network during Memorial Day weekend, Delta reduced its flying schedule to help improve its performance.Ģ. The Atlanta-based carrier has won this title every year since 2017, though the firm did not hand out awards in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This gave Delta the top spot among North American airlines. Delta Air Lines: Cirium tracked over a million Delta flights and over 83% of them arrived on time.
