The most punctual flights from the Canary Islands in July were those from Fuerteventura to Málaga. This is shown by our analysis of all flight routes from the Canary Islands. By contrast, the route from Gran Canaria to Katowice had the highest average delay of all Canary Islands routes. On average, flights were delayed by 54 minutes and 29 seconds. Only 43.5 per cent of the 23 departures remained within the 15-minute tolerance window. We analysed 174 routes for this ranking.
The route from Tenerife South to Nantes saw the sharpest deterioration within a month. The average delay increased by 1 minute 35 seconds to 28 minutes 12 seconds. This increase in delays is consistent with the overall picture: in terms of absolute delays in July, Tenerife South was the most unpunctual of the major Canary Islands airports.
The route between Fuerteventura and Nuremberg, on the other hand, paints a different picture: there, the average delay fell from 23 to 5:57 minutes, whilst the proportion of on-time flights rose from 61.9 to 73.9 per cent. The comparison was based on the 155 routes that had a sufficient number of flights in both months to be included in the analysis. The results are as follows:
How punctual were the Canary Islands flights in July?
Our first table shows the average number of minutes by which a flight took off late. The second table shows how often flights actually took off within the scheduled time slot. These two figures reveal different things: a single heavily delayed flight skews the average delay in minutes, but leaves the on-time rate virtually unaffected.
The route from Gran Canaria to Edinburgh demonstrated just how widely measurement figures can vary: with a delay of 26 minutes and 30 seconds across 24 flights, the rate stands at 29.2 per cent – well below that of the Katowice route, where the average delay per flight is more than double.
Two other routes fared only slightly better: Gran Canaria to Manchester recorded a punctuality rate of 29.5 per cent across 78 flights, whilst Lanzarote to Amsterdam recorded 31.8 per cent, with a delay of 37 minutes and 41 seconds. None of the two lists below include cancelled flights: the highest number of cancellations was recorded on the Lanzarote to Milan Malpensa route, at 17.86 per cent.
The most punctual routes from the Canary Islands in July
The overview shows the top 10 of the 174 Canary Islands routes ranked by deviation from the timetable. The higher up a route is listed, the closer it was to the scheduled departure time:
| Rank | Route | Average deviation | Proportion | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fuerteventura to Málaga (FUE-AGP) | 1 minute and 16 seconds ahead of schedule | 100.0 per cent | 22 |
| 2 | Gran Canaria to Alicante (LPA-ALC) | 14 seconds ahead of schedule | 96.2 per cent | 26 |
| 3 | Gran Canaria to Rotterdam (LPA-RTM) | 11 seconds ahead of schedule | 95.2 per cent | 21 |
| 4 | Tenerife North to Valencia (TFN-VLC) | 6 seconds ahead of schedule | 96.5 per cent | 57 |
| 5 | Tenerife North to A Coruña (TFN-LCG) | 16 seconds behind schedule | 87.0 per cent | 23 |
| 6 | Fuerteventura to Bilbao (FUE-BIO) | 1 minute late | 96.2 per cent | 26 |
| 7 | Tenerife South to Eindhoven (TFS-EIN) | 1 minute and 12 seconds late | 87.5 per cent | 24 |
| 8 | Tenerife South to Cork (TFS-ORK) | 1 minute 24 seconds late | 85.7 per cent | 28 |
| 9 | Tenerife North to Asturias (TFN-OVD) | 1 minute 33 seconds late | 94.3 per cent | 35 |
| 10 | Gran Canaria to Paris Orly (LPA-ORY) | 1 minute 56 seconds late | 88.0 per cent | 50 |
The second overview is sorted by punctuality rate. This measures how reliably a route adhered to its flight schedule over the entire month:
| Rank | Route | Rate | Average deviation | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fuerteventura to Málaga (FUE-AGP) | 100.0 per cent | 1 minute and 16 seconds ahead of schedule | 22 |
| 2 | Tenerife North to Valencia (TFN-VLC) | 96.5 per cent | 6 seconds ahead of schedule | 57 |
| 3 | Gran Canaria to Alicante (LPA-ALC) | 96.2 per cent | 14 seconds ahead of schedule | 26 |
| 4 | Fuerteventura to Bilbao (FUE-BIO) | 96.2 per cent | 1 minute late | 26 |
| 5 | Gran Canaria to Rotterdam (LPA-RTM) | 95.2 per cent | 11 seconds ahead of schedule | 21 |
| 6 | Tenerife North to Asturias (TFN-OVD) | 94.3 per cent | 1 minute 33 seconds behind schedule | 35 |
| 7 | Gran Canaria to Vigo (LPA-VGO) | 92.6 per cent | 8 minutes and 22 seconds late | 27 |
| 8 | Gran Canaria to Bilbao (LPA-BIO) | 91.4 per cent | 2 minutes and 27 seconds late | 58 |
| 9 | Tenerife North to La Gomera (TFN-GMZ) | 91.3 per cent | 4 minutes and 31 seconds late | 23 |
| 10 | Lanzarote to Seville (ACE-SVQ) | 90.4 per cent | 2 minutes and 15 seconds late | 52 |
According to the Canary Islands‘ statistical office, ISTAC, just over 1.07 million passengers arrived in the Canary Islands from abroad in June. This was 3.5 per cent fewer than a year earlier. These figures formed the basis for our ranking. Only routes with at least 20 flights were included in the ranking. Otherwise, individual outliers would distort the picture.
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