Airline delays by country, March 2024

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

March 2024 (1–31 March 2024) Source: www.airportia.com/statistics/countries/2024-03/

Period: 1–31 March 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. 86 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: 74 countries

#	Country	Average departure delay	Cancelled	Flights
1	Pakistan	42.3 min	5.3%	3,949
2	Portugal	36.0 min	1.2%	11,655
3	United Kingdom	30.7 min	0.8%	93,443
4	Canada	30.4 min	2.1%	93,675
4	Israel	30.4 min	0.1%	3,387
6	United States	30.1 min	0.8%	801,497
7	United Arab Emirates	28.8 min	0.2%	39,143
8	Netherlands	28.4 min	1.5%	26,551
9	Serbia	26.7 min	0.8%	3,054
10	Hong Kong	26.2 min	0.1%	12,995
11	Mexico	25.6 min	0.4%	42,177
12	South Korea	25.2 min	0.2%	40,876
13	Taiwan	24.5 min	0.8%	18,121
13	Italy	24.5 min	0.8%	17,147
15	Vietnam	24.4 min	0.0%	23,685
16	Ireland	23.9 min	0.2%	89,464
16	France	23.9 min	0.8%	35,603
16	Argentina	23.9 min	2.5%	10,487
16	Hungary	23.9 min	0.2%	10,221
20	Malta	23.2 min	0.1%	11,795
21	Spain	22.5 min	0.1%	54,981
22	Qatar	22.4 min	0.1%	16,983
23	India	22.3 min	0.4%	106,916
24	Belgium	21.6 min	0.8%	6,548
25	Thailand	21.1 min	0.0%	29,871
26	Malaysia	20.8 min	0.2%	29,281
26	Morocco	20.8 min	0.2%	5,732
28	China	20.6 min	1.7%	406,330
28	Finland	20.6 min	0.7%	9,055
30	Poland	20.2 min	0.4%	8,156
31	Philippines	20.0 min	0.4%	26,528
32	Australia	19.9 min	1.8%	55,628
33	Greece	19.6 min	0.4%	12,439
34	Panama	19.1 min	0.2%	10,421
35	Bangladesh	18.6 min	0.5%	5,305
36	Latvia	18.4 min	0.1%	3,719
36	Bahamas	18.4 min	1.1%	3,686
38	Germany	18.2 min	5.6%	50,449
39	Egypt	18.0 min	0.5%	12,730
40	Switzerland	17.9 min	0.8%	13,098
41	Iceland	17.6 min	1.4%	3,798
42	New Zealand	17.1 min	1.9%	16,538
43	Japan	17.0 min	1.2%	87,363
44	Brazil	16.9 min	3.6%	43,715
44	Bahrain	16.9 min	4.1%	4,065
46	Singapore	16.7 min	0.1%	15,245
47	Indonesia	16.3 min	3.0%	54,347
48	Saudi Arabia	16.0 min	0.4%	27,218
49	Norway	15.8 min	1.1%	32,809
50	Sweden	15.5 min	1.2%	3,562
51	Kazakhstan	15.4 min	0.2%	7,442
52	Chile	15.1 min	0.6%	53,458
53	Turkey	14.4 min	0.6%	59,223
53	Algeria	14.4 min	0.3%	6,502
55	Colombia	13.8 min	0.4%	26,734
56	Kuwait	13.6 min	1.3%	5,453
57	Oman	13.1 min	0.4%	5,328
58	Nepal	12.6 min	0.1%	7,396
59	South Africa	12.2 min	0.4%	8,770
60	Uzbekistan	10.9 min	0.4%	3,098
61	Austria	10.2 min	3.1%	15,471
62	Russia	10.1 min	0.3%	48,743
63	Kenya	9.7 min	0.1%	15,630
64	Ethiopia	9.2 min	0.0%	12,027
65	Nigeria	9.0 min	0.1%	8,601
65	Costa Rica	9.0 min	0.1%	3,736
67	Maldives	8.8 min	0.2%	3,223
68	Iran	8.4 min	0.1%	9,129
69	Curacao	6.8 min	2.4%	4,638
70	Bolivia	3.8 min	0.0%	4,085
70	Myanmar (Burma)	3.8 min	0.3%	3,837
72	Denmark	3.2 min	0.1%	12,043
73	Tanzania	0.5 min	0.7%	9,775
74	Belize	0.0 min	0.1%	9,013

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The country with at least 100 flights a day whose airlines had the longest average departure delay in March 2024 was Pakistan: average departure delay 42.3 min (early and cancelled flights count as 0). Source: Airportia, "Airline delays by country, March 2024" (1–31 March 2024), https://www.airportia.com/statistics/countries/2024-03/, 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. 86 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.