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Global air travel database and analytics company OAG released its “Punctuality League 2023” report on Tuesday, ranking both airlines and airports all over the world in regards to their On-Time Performance (OTP) throughout last year. And a South African airline company was ranked 2nd on the planet for its OTP: FlySafair (although the report calls it Safair, after its parent business). FlySafair accomplished an OTP of 95.3%, second only to Garuda Indonesia’s 95.63%. There were no other African airlines within the Top 20. There was likewise just one US provider in this group, Delta Air Lines, ranked 17th, with an OTP of 81.79%. On the other hand, the list included seven Asian and six Latin American airline companies. The list was completed by 3 European and 2 Middle Eastern carriers.

Two South African airports have actually scored extremely in the ‘Punctuality League 2023’ report. This report was assembled by global air travel database and analytics company OAG, utilizing 2022 information, and launched on Tuesday. It noted, in the order of their On-Time Performance (OTP), the leading 20 airports worldwide, in addition to the top ten airports in each of the areas into which OAG divided the world. The report noted Durban’s King Shaka International Airport in 5th place in the worldwide top 20, with an OTP of 89.73%. And Cape Town International Airport was ranked 16th, with an OTP of 87.02%. (Although not noted in the report, both these airports were owned and run by the State-owned Airports Company South Africa.) Cape Town’s cancellation rate, at 1.02%, was lower than that for King Shaka (1.37%).

Global air passenger traffic continued, in November, to recuperate from the results of the Covid-19 pandemic, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has actually reported. (IATA is the representative body for the worldwide airline company industry.) In year-on-year (y-o-y) terms, overall air passenger traffic in November was up 41.3%. This meant that it reached 75.3% of the pre-Covid level taped in November 2019. International air passenger traffic jumped 85.2% y-o-y, while the equivalent increase in domestic traffic came to 3.4%. (Domestic air transport resumed significantly earlier than international air traffic, indicating that its development came off a greater base than that for international flights.) November 2022 global air passenger traffic reached 73.7% of that in November 2019, while for domestic traffic the equivalent figure was 77.7%.

Total international air freight demand during November 2022 declined by 13.7% in year-on-year (y-o-y) terms, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) reported on Monday. (IATA is the representative body of the global airline industry.) International air freight demand fell 14.2%, y-o-y. In contrast to November 2019 (prior to the Covid-19 pandemic hit), the decline in overall demand was 10.1%. Total global air freight capability in November in 2015 was 1.9% down, y-o-y, although international air freight capacity reduced by only 0.1% over the very same duration. November was the second month in 2022 to see a y-o-y capacity decrease, the very first being October. In comparison with November 2019, capability in November 2022 fell by 8.8%.