Airline delays by country, January 2024

Name: Airline delays by country, January 2024 (1–31 January 2024)
Creator: Airportia
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68.1 min average departure delay (early and cancelled flights count as 0), Pakistan

January 2024 (1–31 January 2024) Source: www.airportia.com/statistics/countries/2024-01/

Period: 1–31 January 2024 (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. 88 smaller countries were left out. 14 countries with an average delay of exactly 0 were left out too: that almost always means no departure times were reported.

Full ranking: 72 countries

#	Country	Average departure delay	Cancelled	Flights
1	Pakistan	68.1 min	11.4%	4,233
2	India	41.2 min	1.3%	104,207
3	Canada	39.3 min	4.5%	85,221
4	Serbia	37.5 min	0.9%	3,360
5	United States	34.0 min	3.2%	756,025
6	Hungary	33.2 min	0.5%	10,851
7	United Arab Emirates	31.2 min	0.2%	39,322
8	Bangladesh	31.0 min	0.1%	6,299
9	Oman	29.8 min	0.1%	5,799
10	Netherlands	28.9 min	5.8%	24,098
11	South Korea	28.7 min	0.9%	41,776
12	Mexico	28.1 min	2.0%	42,954
13	Finland	28.0 min	0.2%	8,560
14	Hong Kong	26.0 min	0.7%	12,516
15	France	25.9 min	1.1%	32,097
15	Portugal	25.9 min	1.2%	10,827
17	Iceland	25.5 min	2.4%	3,258
18	United Kingdom	25.1 min	1.2%	69,668
19	Qatar	24.5 min	0.1%	17,298
20	Latvia	24.1 min	0.2%	3,142
21	Poland	23.9 min	0.6%	7,630
22	Malaysia	23.6 min	1.5%	30,393
22	Bahrain	23.6 min	3.7%	4,034
24	Taiwan	23.5 min	0.2%	17,474
25	Malta	22.8 min	0.2%	11,972
26	Kuwait	22.3 min	0.1%	5,857
27	Ireland	21.9 min	0.3%	77,394
27	Australia	21.9 min	2.4%	57,310
29	China	21.7 min	1.6%	416,617
29	Vietnam	21.7 min	0.0%	25,349
31	Thailand	21.5 min	0.1%	29,905
32	Morocco	21.4 min	0.1%	6,455
33	Norway	21.3 min	2.6%	28,460
33	Belgium	21.3 min	2.1%	5,459
35	Saudi Arabia	20.6 min	0.5%	28,077
36	Germany	20.3 min	3.5%	39,968
37	Brazil	19.9 min	2.2%	46,736
38	Singapore	19.1 min	0.0%	15,342
39	Panama	18.8 min	10.6%	10,392
40	Turkey	18.6 min	1.0%	58,709
41	Japan	18.5 min	3.7%	87,364
42	Italy	18.0 min	0.7%	15,375
42	Argentina	18.0 min	3.4%	11,571
42	Sweden	18.0 min	0.9%	3,464
45	Russia	17.8 min	0.3%	50,160
46	Algeria	17.6 min	0.2%	6,760
47	Philippines	17.4 min	0.2%	26,193
48	Chile	17.2 min	0.5%	54,415
49	Colombia	17.1 min	0.7%	26,957
49	Egypt	17.1 min	0.5%	11,685
51	Spain	17.0 min	0.2%	48,161
52	Indonesia	16.6 min	4.5%	60,756
52	New Zealand	16.6 min	1.4%	15,163
54	Switzerland	15.1 min	1.1%	11,478
55	Kazakhstan	14.1 min	0.3%	6,815
56	Nigeria	13.4 min	0.0%	7,684
57	South Africa	13.0 min	1.9%	8,908
58	Greece	12.3 min	0.8%	10,884
59	Bahamas	11.6 min	0.7%	3,602
60	Austria	10.2 min	0.5%	13,756
61	Costa Rica	9.1 min	0.0%	3,131
62	Iran	8.8 min	2.1%	9,295
63	Kenya	8.0 min	0.1%	15,917
64	Maldives	7.6 min	0.1%	3,156
65	Ethiopia	7.4 min	0.0%	12,111
65	Bolivia	7.4 min	0.0%	4,169
67	Curacao	7.3 min	3.5%	4,091
68	Nepal	5.2 min	0.2%	7,517
69	Denmark	4.2 min	0.2%	10,581
70	Myanmar (Burma)	4.0 min	0.2%	3,538
71	Tanzania	0.6 min	0.4%	9,696
72	Belize	0.0 min	0.0%	8,679

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The country with at least 100 flights a day whose airlines had the longest average departure delay in January 2024 was Pakistan: average departure delay 68.1 min (early and cancelled flights count as 0). Source: Airportia, "Airline delays by country, January 2024" (1–31 January 2024), https://www.airportia.com/statistics/countries/2024-01/, 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. 88 smaller countries were left out. 14 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.