The last two years have been awful for the whole travel and tourism industry with airlines particularly suffering, to date over US$200 Billion in loans and other types of guarantees have been provided to airlines around the world to keep the industry moving. Most airlines have had to cut their networks, reduce their fleets and furlough staff; many of those same airlines have restarted their networks and then had to stop and start their recoveries as new variants of Covid frustrated everyone. Everyone has a horror story from the last two years and for everyone inside the industry it has been “unprecedented” and that was a word we never used two years ago!
But, amongst all the challenges there has been one area where performance seems to have improved over the last two years and that is on-time performance (OTP). The latest OAG’s Punctuality League Snapshot 2022 highlights several airlines that have seen an improvement in punctuality and of course there are some obvious reasons why…