Airline delays by country, October 2024

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

October 2024 (1–31 October 2024) Source: www.airportia.com/statistics/countries/2024-10/

Period: 1–31 October 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. 13 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	Israel	45.5 min	2.6%	5,374
2	Tunisia	40.9 min	0.7%	3,999
3	Portugal	38.4 min	1.2%	12,617
4	Pakistan	34.4 min	2.5%	4,096
5	United Kingdom	31.1 min	1.0%	112,349
6	Nepal	30.9 min	0.3%	8,198
7	Poland	30.1 min	0.1%	9,055
8	Vietnam	29.5 min	0.1%	22,317
9	South Korea	29.3 min	0.1%	43,504
10	Ireland	29.0 min	0.4%	112,460
11	Hungary	28.6 min	0.6%	11,775
12	Netherlands	27.6 min	0.9%	28,739
13	India	27.5 min	0.5%	112,715
14	Switzerland	26.8 min	0.9%	15,651
15	Hong Kong	26.6 min	0.8%	14,265
16	Malta	26.4 min	0.2%	14,104
17	Malaysia	26.0 min	0.3%	32,086
18	United Arab Emirates	25.9 min	0.9%	40,865
19	Italy	24.9 min	0.1%	18,555
20	France	24.7 min	0.8%	38,400
20	Belgium	24.7 min	0.3%	7,277
20	Morocco	24.7 min	0.1%	7,069
23	Spain	24.5 min	0.2%	60,939
24	Serbia	23.8 min	0.0%	3,750
25	Mexico	23.5 min	0.6%	44,349
26	Latvia	23.3 min	0.0%	4,112
27	United States	22.8 min	0.9%	811,953
27	Singapore	22.8 min	0.0%	16,103
29	Thailand	22.7 min	0.1%	30,123
30	Taiwan	22.6 min	2.9%	19,791
31	Chile	22.5 min	1.1%	57,124
31	Egypt	22.5 min	0.5%	12,574
33	Qatar	22.3 min	1.3%	15,871
34	Canada	22.1 min	1.1%	91,062
34	Kuwait	22.1 min	0.6%	5,353
36	Australia	21.6 min	1.3%	57,742
36	Philippines	21.6 min	0.6%	26,943
38	Germany	21.1 min	0.9%	62,050
39	Turkey	20.4 min	0.5%	62,765
40	Iceland	20.1 min	0.9%	4,351
41	Bangladesh	19.7 min	0.1%	4,970
42	Panama	18.8 min	0.6%	10,687
43	Brazil	18.6 min	2.7%	45,806
43	New Zealand	18.6 min	3.6%	16,360
45	Bahrain	18.5 min	0.0%	4,404
46	Algeria	18.0 min	0.4%	6,844
47	Indonesia	17.8 min	1.2%	60,499
48	China	16.8 min	0.7%	424,047
48	Colombia	16.8 min	1.0%	29,819
48	Uzbekistan	16.8 min	0.0%	3,380
51	Saudi Arabia	16.7 min	0.5%	28,875
51	Oman	16.7 min	0.2%	4,614
53	Argentina	16.6 min	4.2%	9,111
54	Greece	16.4 min	0.2%	16,106
55	Kazakhstan	16.2 min	0.3%	7,370
56	Japan	16.0 min	0.8%	88,621
57	Finland	15.4 min	0.4%	9,520
58	South Africa	15.1 min	0.3%	7,968
59	Russia	14.8 min	0.1%	58,477
60	Norway	13.0 min	0.5%	39,213
61	Bahamas	12.1 min	3.2%	3,039
62	Bolivia	10.8 min	0.6%	3,872
63	Austria	10.7 min	0.4%	18,220
64	Kenya	10.5 min	0.1%	13,181
64	Ethiopia	10.5 min	0.0%	12,904
66	Iran	8.4 min	0.7%	9,868
67	Nigeria	8.2 min	0.1%	6,518
68	Myanmar (Burma)	7.8 min	0.8%	3,670
69	Costa Rica	4.0 min	0.3%	3,758
70	Denmark	3.5 min	0.0%	11,549
71	Tanzania	2.3 min	0.4%	8,313
72	Belize	0.0 min	0.1%	8,476

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The country with at least 100 flights a day whose airlines had the longest average departure delay in October 2024 was Israel: average departure delay 45.5 min (early and cancelled flights count as 0). Source: Airportia, "Airline delays by country, October 2024" (1–31 October 2024), https://www.airportia.com/statistics/countries/2024-10/, 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. 88 smaller countries were left out. 13 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.