Flight statistics

21.9 min average departure delay, all flights worldwide (early and cancelled flights count as 0)

Flights worldwide over the 10 days to 2 November 2026: average departure delay 21.9 min (early and cancelled flights count as 0), and 1.3% of them were cancelled.

24 October – 2 November 2026 Source: www.airportia.com/statistics/

Rankings

Each ranking has its own page with the full table, a chart, the method and a CSV download. Figures cover the 10 days to 2 November 2026 and are calculated every day. In every average departure delay, early and cancelled flights count as 0.

Most delayed airports

Airports with the longest average departure delay.

  1. Moscow Vnukovo International Airport (VKO) 93.1 min
  2. Moscow Sheremetyevo International Airport (SVO) 57.3 min
  3. Yekaterinburg Koltsovo Airport (SVX) 53.9 min

Most delayed airlines

Airlines with the longest average departure delay. Cargo airlines are not included.

  1. Pobeda (DP) 132.1 min
  2. SpiceJet (SG) 107.5 min
  3. Nesma Airlines (NE) 81.3 min

Most cancellations

Airports with the highest share of departures cancelled.

  1. Riyadh King Khalid International Airport (RUH) 27.6%
  2. Jinghong Xishuangbanna Gasa Airport (JHG) 10.8%
  3. Edmonton International Airport (YEG) 9.3%

Busiest airports

Airports with the most departures and arrivals.

  1. Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) 28,704 flights
  2. Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) 22,467 flights
  3. Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL) 22,114 flights

Busiest airlines

Airlines with the most flights. Cargo airlines are not included.

  1. Southwest Airlines (WN) 41,867 flights
  2. American Airlines (AA) 38,197 flights
  3. Delta Air Lines (DL) 35,098 flights

Busiest cargo airlines

Cargo airlines with the most flights.

  1. SF Airlines (O3) 2,165 flights
  2. Atlas Air (5Y) 1,833 flights
  3. European Air Transport (QY) 1,102 flights

Airline delays by country

Countries ranked by the average departure delay of the airlines based there.

  1. Tunisia 47.7 min
  2. Russia 42.8 min
  3. Taiwan 40.8 min

Global flights per day

How many flights operate worldwide each day.

Flights per day, last 30 daysSource: Airportia.050K100K150K flights4 Oct: 116,037 flights5 Oct: 119,749 flights6 Oct: 115,334 flights7 Oct: 116,543 flights8 Oct: 119,881 flights9 Oct: 119,598 flights10 Oct: 110,256 flights11 Oct: 113,181 flights12 Oct: 114,751 flights13 Oct: 111,788 flights14 Oct: 112,882 flights15 Oct: 116,926 flights16 Oct: 119,538 flights17 Oct: 110,461 flights18 Oct: 114,706 flights19 Oct: 116,788 flights20 Oct: 112,121 flights21 Oct: 113,231 flights22 Oct: 116,273 flights23 Oct: 118,597 flights24 Oct: 109,457 flights25 Oct: 112,471 flights26 Oct: 114,021 flights27 Oct: 108,844 flights28 Oct: 110,033 flights29 Oct: 126,512 flights30 Oct: 115,838 flights31 Oct: 106,134 flights1 Nov: 111,710 flights2 Nov: 123,442 flights4 Oct18 Oct2 Nov

Monthly archive

Fixed periods to cite. These link to the most delayed airports; every ranking page lists its own months.

October 2026September 2026August 2026July 2026June 2026May 2026April 2026March 2026February 2026January 2026December 2025November 2025

How we calculate this

Which flights count
Every flight in Airportia's schedule data (from the Aviation Edge feed) that was scheduled to depart in the period, counted once: code-share listings of the same flight are left out. Days are UTC calendar days.
Departure delay
The actual departure time (or the latest reported estimate when no actual time came in) minus the scheduled departure time. A flight that left early or on time counts as 0 minutes. A flight with no reported departure time, cancelled flights included, also counts as 0, so where the feed is patchy the average is lower than the real one.
Average departure delay
The mean of those delays over all counted flights in the period. It is not the share of flights more than 15 minutes late (the usual on-time measure), and it is about departures, not arrivals.
Why there is no "most punctual" ranking
Because flights without a reported departure time count as 0 minutes, a low average can mean missing data rather than punctuality, and the stored figures do not say how many flights had a reported time. So we only rank the most delayed, and the delay rankings leave out every airport, airline or country whose average delay is exactly 0, which almost always means that no times were reported.
Cancellations
Flights with the status Cancelled, as a share of the counted flights in the period.
Airports
Delays and cancellations are about departures from the airport. The busiest-airports ranking adds arrivals, counted on the day the flight was scheduled to depart. Totals include all tracked flights, including cargo.
Airlines
Flights operated by the airline, wherever they depart from. Cargo airlines are not included. They have their own ranking, Busiest cargo airlines.
Countries
Flights of the airlines registered in the country, wherever they fly, not flights from the country's airports. Totals include all tracked flights, including cargo.
Period
The 10 days up to and including the latest day shown. The figures are calculated once a day, at 04:00 UTC, for the day before, and this page refreshes within the hour.
Flights per day
The number of flights (code-shares counted once) that entered Airportia's schedule data with a scheduled departure on that UTC day. It is updated every hour, so the newest day can still grow, and it includes flights that were later cancelled. Totals include all tracked flights, including cargo.

Coverage follows the schedule feed: some regional airports and airlines are missing or report few actual times. These are Airportia's own figures, not official statistics from airports, airlines or regulators.