What a week this one has been! We’ve seen everything from taxi blockades, sake vending machines, custom strikes, United Airlines woes in multiple cities to North Korea’s new airport terminal. As always, you can see the whole week in our tweeter feed, but for now here are our selected airport headlines from this week:
FlightStats, the leader in flight information services announced the winners of the 2011 Airport On-Time Performance Awards (OPS). In its third edition, the award honours airlines and airports for their performance. As airports are (obviously) our thing, we want to focus on them. According to FlightStats, the winning airports are recognized for delivering the highest percentage of departure from the gates less than15 minutes after the published scheduled departure time. So without further ado, here are this year’s winners:
Winner – Departure performance among major international airports: Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA)
Seattle, WA, USSEA achieved a 2011 on-time performance record of 86.28%. The average on-time performance was 71.02%% for this category. This is the second year in a row SEA has won the award. “The investments we’ve made improving our facilities and operations continue to pay off,” say’s Mark Reis of Sea-Tac Airport. “Credit goes to the efficiencies built into the airfield, terminal and runway operations as well as the terrific work from the entire team of port employees and our operational partners.”
Winner – Departure performance among major North American airports: Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC)
Salt Lake City, UT, USSLC achieved a 2011 on-time performance record of 86.55%. The average on-time performance was 76.67% for this category. Portland International Airport (PDX) was a very close second in achieving an on-time performance of 86.38%.
Winner – Departure performance among major European airports: Oslo Airport (OSL)
Gardermoen, NOOSL achieved a 2011 on-time performance record of 87.17%. The average on-time performance was 73.42% for this category. This is the second year in a row OSL has won the award.
Winner – Departure performance among major Asian airports: Haneda Airport (HND)
Tokyo, JPHND achieved a 2011 on-time performance record of 95.05%. The average on-time performance was 55.03% for this category.
Winner – Departure performance among regional North American airports: Keahole Airport (KOA)
Kona, HI, USKOA achieved a 2011 on-time performance record of 92.57%. The average on-time performance was 80.90% for this category. This is the second year in a row KOA has won the award.
Winner – Departure performance among regional European airports: Bordeaux Airport (BOD)
Bordeaux, FRBOD achieved a 2011 on-time performance record of 90.13%. The average on-time performance was 78.66% for this category.
Winner – Departure performance among regional Asian airports: Itami Airport (ITM)
Osaka, JPITM achieved a 2011 on-time performance record of 95.60%. The average on-time performance was 69.74% for this category.
