So I was checking out the availability of my flights for my upcoming trip to Asia on ExpertFlyer, and I couldn’t help but notice an interesting statistic for my flight from Istanbul to Hong Kong:
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July 26th, 2009 at 2:33 am
H said,
Over what period are the on-time and percentage and average delays calculated? If its the last x days, rather than all flights ever, could there have been something going on (eg weather systems, time-limited problems at the airport) that’s made performance poor recently, rather than something that warrants ripping up the schedule all together?
July 26th, 2009 at 6:02 am
caelus said,
Hi lucky, do you know which plane do they use for this route? i heard that recently they have switch to a smaller plane for this route due to low traffic. thx
July 26th, 2009 at 10:03 am
lucky said,
@ H — Good question, I’m not sure. I mean, in order to have a 9% on-time record you’d have to at least be looking at 11 days, and only one day would the flight be on-time. That’s a frightening statistic, but I’ll do some research on it.
@ caelus — Three days a week they use the 777-300ER (leased from Jet Airways), and the other four days I believe they use either an A330 or A340.
July 26th, 2009 at 10:28 am
CP@YOW said,
If you go to the Travel Information section of expertflyer, there is more information. The average is calculated over 2 months. For TK70, the stats for the 35 flights in that period are:
12 >45min late
15 > 30min late
5 >15min late
3 on time
The max delay was 1h35
July 28th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Kiwi Flyer said,
Don’t forget many flights have considerable padding in the schedule. On some routes I’ve regularly departed an hour late and still arrive on time.