Pinto Martins International Airport, in Fortaleza, Ceará, is among the ten most punctual in the world. The conclusion is from the 2023 Punctuality League report, revealed on Wednesday (11).
The study, a kind of Oscar for punctuality, is published annually with data collected in the last twelve months by the OAG consultancy, the most respected organization for data analysis of flights, airlines and airports in the market.
According to the survey, the most punctual airport in the world is Osaka, Japan, which had 91.45% of its flights departing or landing within the scheduled time — and only 1.04% of cancellations in trips already scheduled during the year 2022.
To be considered punctual, a flight must take off or land within a maximum of 15 minutes of the scheduled time, which is the margin of tolerance established by the consultancy to assess disruptions on the runways.
In this regard, the Japanese are isolated leaders in civil aviation — they occupy ten positions in the first 20 places in the ranking.
SEE THE PERFORMANCES OF BRAZILIANS:
8th: Pinto Martins International Airport, in Fortaleza, Ceará
The airport in Ceará (CE) reached the 8th position thanks to the punctuality of 88.81% of the flights operated in its terminals, in addition to the low cancellation rate: 1.06%.
14th: Tancredo Neves International Airport, in Confins, Minas Gerais
The terminals serving the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte in Minas Gerais (MG) managed to ensure that 87.26% of their flights were on time in 2022. During the year, only 1.66% of scheduled trips were cancelled.
19th: Salgado Filho International Airport, in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
The runways in Rio Grande do Sul (RS) saw 86.50% of their flights depart and arrive on time. Less than 2%, more precisely 1.90%, of scheduled flights were canceled during the last year.
Check out the complete ranking with the 20 placements:
1st: Osaka Airport, Japan
2nd: Matsuyama Airport, Japan
3rd: Miyazaki Airport, Japan
4th: Nagoya International Airport, Japan
5th: Durban King Shaka International Airport, South Africa
6th: Kagoshima Airport, Japan
7th: Kumamoto Airport, Japan
8th: Pinto Martins International Airport, Fortaleza, Brazil
9th: Tocumen International Airport/Panama City, Panama
10th: Fukuoka Airport, Japan
11th: New Chitose/Sapporo Airport, Japan
12th: Tokyo/Haneda International Airport, Japan
13th: Coimbatore Airport, India
14th: Tancredo Neves International Airport, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
15th: Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport, Peru
16th: Cape Town Airport, South Africa
17th: Mariscal Sucre International Airport, Ecuador
18th: Naha/Okinawa Airport, Japan
19th: Salgado Filho International Airport, Porto Alegre, Brazil
20th: José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport, Ecuador
In the specific ranking of Latin America, Brazil won five of the ten places published.
In it, Pinto Martins, in Fortaleza, is not only the 8th airport in terms of punctuality in the world, but also the most punctual on the continent.
Confins terminals appear in 3rd, while Porto Alegre are in 6th position.
The Marechal Rondon International Airport, in Cuiabá, Mato Grosso (MT) and Eurico de Aguiar Salles Airport, in Vitória, Espírito Santo (ES), also complete the top 10 in 10th place.
With information from UOL