Airline delays by country, November 2023

Name: Airline delays by country, November 2023 (1–30 November 2023)
Creator: Airportia
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44.0 min average departure delay (early and cancelled flights count as 0), Pakistan

November 2023 (1–30 November 2023) Source: www.airportia.com/statistics/countries/2023-11/

Period: 1–30 November 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. 90 smaller countries were left out. 11 countries with an average delay of exactly 0 were left out too: that almost always means no departure times were reported.

Full ranking: 71 countries

#	Country	Average departure delay	Cancelled	Flights
1	Pakistan	44.0 min	5.5%	3,705
2	Portugal	31.8 min	1.4%	11,171
3	Mexico	30.7 min	1.0%	45,703
4	Serbia	30.2 min	0.5%	3,548
5	India	28.7 min	0.3%	103,319
6	Hong Kong	28.5 min	0.1%	11,566
7	South Korea	26.2 min	0.1%	37,304
8	Netherlands	26.0 min	5.8%	25,099
9	Canada	25.2 min	1.9%	74,897
10	United Kingdom	24.8 min	1.3%	81,926
11	Australia	24.6 min	2.8%	57,810
12	Panama	24.5 min	0.1%	10,124
13	Thailand	24.3 min	0.0%	28,301
14	Argentina	24.1 min	1.2%	11,642
15	Taiwan	23.6 min	0.1%	17,254
16	United States	23.4 min	0.2%	781,019
17	Switzerland	23.2 min	1.2%	11,726
18	Turkey	22.8 min	1.7%	59,577
19	United Arab Emirates	22.7 min	0.4%	37,637
20	Hungary	22.4 min	0.3%	10,612
21	Italy	22.3 min	0.6%	15,930
22	Germany	22.1 min	1.6%	48,735
22	France	22.1 min	1.1%	35,561
24	Ireland	21.7 min	0.4%	76,664
25	Qatar	21.4 min	0.1%	16,683
26	Malaysia	21.1 min	1.6%	28,903
26	Poland	21.1 min	0.3%	7,840
28	Bangladesh	20.8 min	0.2%	4,984
29	Brazil	20.2 min	2.0%	43,959
29	Bahrain	20.2 min	3.1%	3,932
31	Vietnam	20.1 min	0.0%	25,033
32	Colombia	19.7 min	1.9%	25,751
33	Saudi Arabia	19.6 min	0.4%	26,398
34	Belgium	19.5 min	0.5%	6,466
35	Finland	19.4 min	0.1%	8,404
35	Latvia	19.4 min	0.0%	3,670
37	Kuwait	19.3 min	0.7%	5,911
38	Spain	19.1 min	0.3%	52,137
39	Singapore	18.7 min	0.0%	14,728
40	Greece	18.3 min	0.6%	11,901
41	Malta	18.2 min	0.2%	11,801
42	Chile	18.1 min	0.7%	50,982
42	Iceland	18.1 min	1.3%	3,636
44	Indonesia	18.0 min	5.5%	57,459
44	Morocco	18.0 min	0.4%	6,168
46	Philippines	17.7 min	0.4%	25,601
47	New Zealand	17.1 min	3.2%	16,430
48	Japan	16.8 min	0.6%	87,618
49	Oman	16.3 min	0.1%	5,219
50	Norway	16.2 min	0.8%	33,809
51	South Africa	15.1 min	0.6%	8,314
51	Nigeria	15.1 min	0.0%	7,531
53	China	15.0 min	1.7%	380,211
54	Egypt	14.0 min	0.2%	11,373
55	Russia	13.5 min	0.3%	49,151
56	Sweden	12.8 min	0.7%	3,483
57	Austria	12.6 min	0.6%	15,894
58	Algeria	11.2 min	0.3%	6,619
59	Bahamas	10.8 min	1.5%	3,852
60	Kazakhstan	10.1 min	0.1%	7,204
61	Kenya	9.8 min	0.0%	14,528
62	Nepal	8.3 min	0.0%	7,804
63	Iran	8.2 min	1.5%	8,958
63	Curacao	8.2 min	0.2%	3,979
65	Ethiopia	8.0 min	0.2%	11,786
66	Costa Rica	7.8 min	0.1%	3,133
67	Bolivia	6.9 min	0.1%	4,124
68	Myanmar (Burma)	5.0 min	1.0%	4,221
69	Denmark	3.4 min	0.2%	11,067
70	Tanzania	0.8 min	0.4%	9,717
71	Belize	0.0 min	0.0%	9,051

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The country with at least 100 flights a day whose airlines had the longest average departure delay in November 2023 was Pakistan: average departure delay 44.0 min (early and cancelled flights count as 0). Source: Airportia, "Airline delays by country, November 2023" (1–30 November 2023), https://www.airportia.com/statistics/countries/2023-11/, 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. 90 smaller countries were left out. 11 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.