Airline delays by country, November 2024

Name: Airline delays by country, November 2024 (1–30 November 2024)
Creator: Airportia
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

38.3 min average departure delay (early and cancelled flights count as 0), Pakistan

November 2024 (1–30 November 2024) Source: www.airportia.com/statistics/countries/2024-11/

Period: 1–30 November 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. 89 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: 71 countries

#	Country	Average departure delay	Cancelled	Flights
1	Pakistan	38.3 min	2.4%	4,142
2	Israel	36.3 min	0.5%	4,057
3	South Korea	34.5 min	0.7%	42,652
3	Vietnam	34.5 min	0.0%	24,914
5	Hong Kong	31.0 min	0.5%	14,218
6	Portugal	29.5 min	0.4%	10,896
7	Nepal	28.7 min	0.0%	8,767
8	United Kingdom	28.4 min	1.0%	83,833
9	Malaysia	28.2 min	0.3%	32,350
10	India	28.1 min	0.2%	113,167
11	Serbia	27.4 min	0.0%	3,397
12	Canada	27.1 min	1.6%	88,986
13	France	26.3 min	1.3%	34,188
14	Chile	26.2 min	1.4%	57,137
14	Singapore	26.2 min	0.1%	16,698
16	Netherlands	25.8 min	1.6%	25,337
17	Australia	25.6 min	2.0%	56,258
18	United Arab Emirates	25.5 min	0.4%	40,939
18	Panama	25.5 min	0.3%	10,822
20	Finland	25.1 min	2.3%	9,484
21	Mexico	24.7 min	0.4%	46,096
22	United States	24.2 min	0.5%	798,239
23	Thailand	23.9 min	0.0%	31,856
24	Taiwan	23.1 min	0.5%	19,454
25	Belgium	22.9 min	0.5%	6,372
26	Philippines	22.7 min	0.8%	28,251
27	Colombia	22.6 min	1.7%	30,339
27	Iceland	22.6 min	3.4%	3,478
29	Ireland	22.4 min	0.1%	83,675
29	Morocco	22.4 min	0.2%	6,734
31	Brazil	22.3 min	2.2%	44,733
32	Switzerland	22.2 min	1.6%	12,980
33	Italy	22.0 min	0.2%	17,275
34	Poland	21.8 min	0.0%	8,243
35	Spain	21.4 min	0.5%	55,780
36	Qatar	21.3 min	0.1%	15,860
37	Hungary	20.5 min	0.0%	10,133
38	Kazakhstan	19.0 min	0.2%	7,393
38	Uzbekistan	19.0 min	0.3%	3,441
40	Indonesia	18.9 min	1.4%	58,481
40	Argentina	18.9 min	1.2%	9,173
40	Latvia	18.9 min	0.0%	3,622
43	Kuwait	18.5 min	0.2%	5,355
44	New Zealand	18.3 min	2.9%	16,650
45	China	18.1 min	0.9%	401,530
46	Oman	18.0 min	0.0%	4,629
47	Malta	17.9 min	0.0%	11,838
48	Turkey	17.8 min	0.0%	53,841
49	Japan	17.7 min	0.6%	87,865
50	Egypt	17.3 min	0.1%	12,810
51	Germany	17.2 min	0.8%	47,322
51	Bangladesh	17.2 min	0.2%	4,802
53	Algeria	16.9 min	1.4%	7,195
54	Saudi Arabia	15.9 min	0.2%	30,010
55	Greece	15.8 min	0.1%	12,645
56	Bahrain	15.7 min	0.0%	4,078
57	Russia	15.2 min	0.1%	51,580
58	South Africa	15.0 min	0.7%	8,426
59	Norway	14.7 min	0.7%	33,763
60	Ethiopia	11.8 min	0.0%	12,641
61	Iran	10.7 min	0.3%	9,776
61	Bolivia	10.7 min	1.0%	3,789
63	Curacao	10.6 min	5.8%	3,893
64	Austria	9.9 min	0.3%	16,165
64	Kenya	9.9 min	0.2%	12,572
66	Nigeria	9.6 min	0.0%	7,014
67	Myanmar (Burma)	8.6 min	1.1%	3,921
68	Costa Rica	5.5 min	0.2%	4,996
69	Denmark	3.6 min	0.0%	11,288
70	Tanzania	2.3 min	0.9%	7,709
71	Belize	0.1 min	0.0%	8,731

Cite this

The country with at least 100 flights a day whose airlines had the longest average departure delay in November 2024 was Pakistan: average departure delay 38.3 min (early and cancelled flights count as 0). Source: Airportia, "Airline delays by country, November 2024" (1–30 November 2024), https://www.airportia.com/statistics/countries/2024-11/, retrieved 3 November 2026.

Download the data (CSV)

Free to use, including commercially, under CC BY 4.0 : credit Airportia and link to this page. How to use our data. Press and data questions: contact@airportia.com.

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. 89 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.