Airline delays by country, December 2024

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

December 2024 (1–31 December 2024) Source: www.airportia.com/statistics/countries/2024-12/

Period: 1–31 December 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. 12 countries with an average delay of exactly 0 were left out too: that almost always means no departure times were reported.

Full ranking: 73 countries

#	Country	Average departure delay	Cancelled	Flights
1	Israel	39.1 min	0.4%	4,617
2	Canada	37.3 min	2.4%	90,479
3	Pakistan	36.9 min	0.9%	4,335
4	Tunisia	36.5 min	0.0%	3,006
5	United Kingdom	35.0 min	1.3%	90,003
5	Vietnam	35.0 min	0.0%	25,846
7	Iceland	34.0 min	2.8%	3,584
8	Malaysia	32.4 min	0.2%	34,617
8	Kazakhstan	32.4 min	0.2%	7,661
10	United States	31.5 min	0.6%	810,976
11	Singapore	31.0 min	0.0%	17,226
12	Hong Kong	30.2 min	0.1%	15,589
13	Mexico	29.7 min	0.6%	47,149
14	Serbia	29.5 min	0.0%	3,340
15	Ireland	28.4 min	0.2%	83,736
16	South Korea	28.1 min	0.1%	43,587
16	France	28.1 min	1.1%	35,750
18	Finland	27.7 min	2.5%	8,847
19	Uzbekistan	27.3 min	0.8%	3,469
20	Egypt	27.0 min	0.2%	13,027
21	Netherlands	26.8 min	2.1%	25,359
22	India	26.6 min	0.2%	114,161
22	Thailand	26.6 min	0.0%	33,605
24	Switzerland	26.5 min	1.1%	12,937
25	Portugal	26.4 min	0.5%	10,885
26	Morocco	26.2 min	0.2%	7,245
27	United Arab Emirates	25.9 min	0.2%	41,785
28	Bahamas	25.6 min	7.6%	3,077
29	Belgium	25.2 min	0.5%	6,312
30	Nepal	25.0 min	0.0%	8,033
31	Chile	24.8 min	0.8%	58,217
32	Indonesia	24.7 min	0.7%	59,161
33	Philippines	23.5 min	0.3%	29,453
34	Australia	22.9 min	1.2%	56,670
34	Algeria	22.9 min	1.0%	7,225
34	Kuwait	22.9 min	0.2%	5,248
37	Latvia	22.7 min	0.0%	3,679
38	Colombia	22.6 min	1.1%	31,570
39	Italy	22.5 min	0.2%	16,743
40	Bangladesh	22.3 min	0.1%	5,204
41	Poland	22.2 min	0.0%	8,352
42	Taiwan	22.1 min	0.2%	19,475
43	New Zealand	21.9 min	4.1%	16,670
44	Brazil	21.6 min	2.7%	46,795
45	Qatar	21.5 min	0.4%	16,797
46	Hungary	21.4 min	0.0%	10,738
46	South Africa	21.4 min	1.7%	9,629
48	Bahrain	20.3 min	0.0%	4,127
49	Russia	20.2 min	0.2%	52,487
49	Panama	20.2 min	0.1%	10,796
51	Germany	20.0 min	0.6%	42,498
52	Spain	19.7 min	0.2%	55,889
53	Oman	19.6 min	0.0%	4,860
54	Japan	18.8 min	0.6%	88,666
54	Greece	18.8 min	0.2%	12,449
56	Turkey	18.2 min	0.0%	52,806
56	Norway	18.2 min	0.5%	29,297
58	Ethiopia	18.1 min	0.0%	13,279
58	Malta	18.1 min	0.0%	12,195
60	Argentina	17.6 min	0.3%	9,312
61	Saudi Arabia	16.6 min	0.2%	29,863
62	Bolivia	16.3 min	1.2%	3,630
63	China	15.0 min	0.8%	397,728
64	Austria	13.6 min	0.6%	15,200
65	Kenya	11.4 min	0.3%	13,562
66	Nigeria	10.9 min	0.0%	8,628
67	Curacao	10.2 min	1.2%	3,891
68	Iran	9.3 min	0.1%	9,820
69	Myanmar (Burma)	5.4 min	0.5%	3,868
70	Costa Rica	5.2 min	0.1%	5,092
71	Tanzania	4.3 min	0.7%	7,790
72	Denmark	3.3 min	0.0%	11,020
73	Belize	0.1 min	0.0%	9,149

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The country with at least 100 flights a day whose airlines had the longest average departure delay in December 2024 was Israel: average departure delay 39.1 min (early and cancelled flights count as 0). Source: Airportia, "Airline delays by country, December 2024" (1–31 December 2024), https://www.airportia.com/statistics/countries/2024-12/, 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. 12 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.