The Airlines With The World’s Best On‑Time Records Last Month

Overall, punctuality has always been and remains one of the key performance indicators for any airline. We analyzed last month’s punctuality leaderboard in order to get a better sense of what carriers are leading the charge. We analyze data from OAG on On-Time Performance (OTP) in November 2025, and find that the best individual airline performers were Hainan Airlines, China Southern Airlines, and Scandinavian Airlines (SAS). OTP is defined by most industry analysts using actual gate-arrival times, counting a flight as on time only when it reaches the gate within 15 minutes of its scheduled arrival time, all while cancellations are treated as not on time. These rules make the results more than just interesting facts as they compress thousands of daily operational decisions, including scheduling, staffing, maintenance, and disruption recovery, into a single, comparable score.