Airline delays by country, October 2023

Name: Airline delays by country, October 2023 (1–31 October 2023)
Creator: Airportia
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53.7 min average departure delay (early and cancelled flights count as 0), Pakistan

October 2023 (1–31 October 2023) Source: www.airportia.com/statistics/countries/2023-10/

Period: 1–31 October 2023 (UTC). Data calculated on 3 November 2026 at 04:00 UTC. In the average departure delay, early and cancelled flights count as 0. How we calculate this

Top 15 countries by average departure delay

Only countries with at least 3,000 flights in the period (100 a day) are ranked, so a handful of flights cannot top the list. 84 smaller countries were left out. 9 countries with an average delay of exactly 0 were left out too: that almost always means no departure times were reported.

Full ranking: 73 countries

#	Country	Average departure delay	Cancelled	Flights
1	Pakistan	53.7 min	18.7%	3,753
2	Israel	46.1 min	4.6%	4,681
3	Portugal	36.1 min	1.7%	12,830
4	Tunisia	33.2 min	1.4%	3,965
5	Netherlands	30.9 min	2.6%	28,715
5	Hong Kong	30.9 min	0.1%	10,861
7	United Kingdom	30.6 min	2.1%	108,341
8	Serbia	29.0 min	0.3%	3,750
9	Morocco	27.3 min	0.6%	6,797
10	Hungary	26.9 min	1.3%	13,747
11	Mexico	26.8 min	2.8%	46,843
11	Switzerland	26.8 min	0.9%	14,152
13	Panama	26.2 min	0.4%	10,004
14	Kuwait	26.1 min	0.7%	5,829
15	Ireland	26.0 min	0.6%	106,581
16	Turkey	25.8 min	0.9%	71,532
17	Germany	25.6 min	0.9%	62,860
18	France	25.2 min	1.6%	39,180
19	Italy	24.8 min	0.5%	17,218
20	United States	24.7 min	0.4%	795,138
21	South Korea	24.6 min	0.1%	35,179
22	Canada	24.0 min	2.0%	78,430
23	Argentina	23.4 min	1.0%	11,200
24	Australia	23.3 min	2.9%	59,152
25	Belgium	23.1 min	1.6%	8,164
26	Bangladesh	22.5 min	0.0%	4,683
26	Iceland	22.5 min	3.1%	4,213
28	Malaysia	22.1 min	0.8%	29,810
29	Taiwan	22.0 min	1.0%	17,178
30	Malta	21.8 min	0.6%	11,436
31	Bahrain	21.7 min	5.8%	3,983
32	Vietnam	21.6 min	0.0%	23,428
33	United Arab Emirates	21.3 min	0.4%	37,713
33	Poland	21.3 min	0.5%	8,826
33	Latvia	21.3 min	0.1%	4,335
36	India	20.6 min	0.4%	102,924
37	Qatar	20.5 min	0.1%	16,494
38	Spain	20.4 min	0.2%	59,024
38	Brazil	20.4 min	2.8%	45,592
40	Thailand	19.9 min	0.0%	27,556
41	Indonesia	18.9 min	7.4%	55,656
42	Greece	18.7 min	0.4%	15,082
43	Philippines	17.5 min	0.8%	25,430
44	Saudi Arabia	17.4 min	0.3%	25,170
45	New Zealand	17.2 min	3.9%	16,288
46	Finland	16.7 min	0.1%	8,369
47	Singapore	16.6 min	0.0%	14,429
48	South Africa	16.4 min	1.0%	8,704
49	Oman	16.3 min	0.2%	5,510
50	Sweden	16.1 min	1.0%	3,798
51	China	15.9 min	1.5%	394,461
51	Japan	15.9 min	0.4%	87,981
53	Chile	15.6 min	0.9%	49,360
54	Egypt	14.7 min	0.0%	12,250
55	Norway	14.6 min	1.1%	38,693
56	Austria	14.1 min	1.3%	17,764
57	Colombia	13.1 min	0.4%	22,835
58	Algeria	11.8 min	0.3%	6,268
59	Bahamas	11.5 min	0.3%	3,649
60	Russia	11.4 min	0.3%	54,060
61	Ethiopia	10.3 min	0.0%	11,836
62	Nepal	10.2 min	0.3%	8,222
63	Curacao	10.1 min	0.0%	3,128
64	Kazakhstan	9.9 min	0.2%	7,852
65	Nigeria	9.7 min	0.2%	7,398
66	Iran	7.0 min	1.1%	8,061
67	Costa Rica	6.5 min	0.5%	3,687
68	Kenya	5.9 min	0.1%	15,456
69	Bolivia	4.8 min	0.0%	4,105
70	Myanmar (Burma)	4.7 min	0.1%	3,481
71	Denmark	2.9 min	0.1%	12,005
72	Tanzania	0.8 min	0.1%	9,916
73	Belize	0.0 min	0.0%	8,860

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The country with at least 100 flights a day whose airlines had the longest average departure delay in October 2023 was Pakistan: average departure delay 53.7 min (early and cancelled flights count as 0). Source: Airportia, "Airline delays by country, October 2023" (1–31 October 2023), https://www.airportia.com/statistics/countries/2023-10/, retrieved 3 November 2026.

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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.
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: A month combines three 10-day periods: days 1–10, 11–20 and the last ten days of the month, weighted by departures. In a 31-day month day 21 is not included; in February the second and third periods overlap by a day or two.
Minimum sample: Only countries with at least 3,000 flights in the period (100 a day) are ranked, so a handful of flights cannot top the list. 84 smaller countries were left out. 9 countries with an average delay of exactly 0 were left out too: that almost always means no departure times were reported.

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.