Virgin Australia again on prime with reliability trifecta – Australian Aviation

Virgin Australia has reclaimed the highest spot in on-time efficiency amongst main Australian airways after trailing Qantas Group for seven months.

Australia’s second-largest airline group wrested the triple crown away from the Flying Kangaroo in January, in response to the most recent BITRE information, beating Qantas in on-time arrivals, on-time departures, and completion charges, once more cancelling fewer than one in 100 flights final month.

The Virgin Australia community (Virgin and VARA mixed) noticed 82 per cent on-time arrivals and 82.5 per cent on-time departures final month, in comparison with 80.9 per cent and 81.6 per cent respectively for the Qantas community (Qantas and QantasLink). 0.9 per cent of VA flights had been cancelled, in comparison with 2.7 per cent of QF companies.

“After a powerful end to the yr in December, our crew raised the bar but once more in January,” stated Virgin Australia CEO Dave Emerson.

“Main the foremost Australian airways in January with the very best departure on-time efficiency and the bottom cancellations is a testomony to the efforts of our folks throughout your complete operation.

“We all know how vital it’s to get our friends to their vacation spot on their desired day of journey, and with fewer than 1% of scheduled home flights cancelled throughout one in every of our busiest months, our outcomes present we’re constantly delivering on that dedication.”

The outcomes come quickly after Qantas was named the world’s third most on-time main airline, behind China Southern and Hainan Airways, by analytics agency OAG. Qantas Home CEO Markus Svensson stated the January figures had been a superb outcome for the provider.

“This was our strongest January lead to seven years, outdoors of COVID, which is a good final result and a credit score to the onerous work of our folks,” he stated.

“Their efforts meant that 100,000 extra clients departed on time in contrast with January final yr. February can also be off to a powerful begin as we proceed to put money into our operations and folks to additional improve our reliability.”

Jetstar was the worst-performing of the foremost airways at 67.7 per cent on-time arrivals and 65.1 per cent on-time departures, although its cancellation price of three.2 per cent was barely higher than QantasLink’s 3.3 per cent.

Throughout all collaborating airways – Hinterland, Jetstar, Qantas, QantasLink, Rex Airways, Skytrans Australia (previously SmartLynx Australia), Virgin Australia and Virgin Australia Regional Airways – on-time efficiency was beneath long-term averages, although cancellations had been additionally barely higher.

On-time arrivals (per cent)

All airways – 78.4
Lengthy-term common – 80.5
Virgin Australia and VARA – 82.0
Qantas and QantasLink –80.9
Hinterland – 87.9
Virgin Australia – 82.3
QantasLink – 81.8
Rex – 79.2
Qantas – 79.0
Jetstar – 67.7
Virgin Australia Regional Airways – 64.8
Skytrans (previously SmartLynx Australia) – 59.5

On-time departures (per cent)

All airways – 78.9
Lengthy-term common – 81.6
Virgin Australia and VARA – 82.5
Qantas and QantasLink – 81.6
Hinterland – 91.9
Rex – 83.7
Virgin Australia – 82.7
QantasLink – 81.7
Qantas – 81.4
Skytrans (previously SmartLynx Australia) – 67.4
Virgin Australia Regional Airways – 65.4
Jetstar – 65.1

Cancellations (per cent)

All airways – 2.1
Lengthy-term common – 2.2
Qantas and QantasLink – 2.7
Virgin Australia and VARA – 0.9
QantasLink – 3.3
Jetstar – 3.2
Skytrans (previously SmartLynx Australia) – 2.0
Hinterland – 1.5
Qantas – 1.5
Rex – 0.8
Virgin Australia – 0.9
Virgin Australia Regional Airways – 0.6