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World's most punctual airlines and airports revealed: Aeroflot is the most on-time carrier overall, Virgin Atlantic is top in the UK, Delta is No1 in the U.S
UK Daily Mail ^ | January 2, 2020 | Jennifer Newton

Posted on 01/02/2020 8:18:08 AM PST by C19fan

Russia's Aeroflot has been named as the world's most on-time mainline airline in 2019 in a new report.

It has beaten Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA), which comes second, and highest-ranked U.S airline Delta Air Lines is third overall. Virgin Atlantic is the UK's most on-schedule carrier.

Meanwhile, Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport is named as the world's most punctual airport.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: airlines
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Areoflot???? Find it funny the company's logo still uses the Hammer and Sickle.
1 posted on 01/02/2020 8:18:08 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Putin makes the planes run on time.


2 posted on 01/02/2020 8:19:21 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I wonder if Aerflot continues the Soviet tradition of rigging books to meet goals. One has heard about universal practice of airlines padding flight times to improve on time metrics.


3 posted on 01/02/2020 8:19:44 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Mostly because I won’t be making any of them wait on me. :-)


4 posted on 01/02/2020 8:21:03 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: C19fan

Areoflot. Alvays leaf on time, nefer a delay for mechanical issues!


5 posted on 01/02/2020 8:24:13 AM PST by null and void (The government wants to disarm us after 243 yrs 'cuz they plan to do things we would shoot them for!)
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To: C19fan

Yup, subtle but still there.

6 posted on 01/02/2020 8:37:01 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: null and void

Alvays leaf on time, sometimes arrival time is problem. Sometimes arrival is problem too.

CC


7 posted on 01/02/2020 8:38:04 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
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To: C19fan

“Land this plane on time, or you will all be shot.”


8 posted on 01/02/2020 8:39:47 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Menehune56

It’s just good Capitalism, it costs a lot of money to replace a logo.


9 posted on 01/02/2020 8:40:53 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan
The real reason people fly Aeroflot...


10 posted on 01/02/2020 8:43:30 AM PST by Regulator
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“Hammer and Sickle”?! I don’t see it.


11 posted on 01/02/2020 8:49:22 AM PST by albie
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To: Regulator

Come and keep your comrade warm.


12 posted on 01/02/2020 8:50:22 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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How can delta be up there?

Isn’t delta an acronym for
Doesn’t Ever Leave The Airport,
Or is it just
Don’t Expect Luggage To Arrive
Now?


13 posted on 01/02/2020 8:51:16 AM PST by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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Hmm...let me think...
Aeroflot, Singapore Airlines, Emirates Airlines
Gosh I think its really hard to decide!
LOL


14 posted on 01/02/2020 8:55:41 AM PST by Zathras
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Your Delta acronym (Doesn’t Ever Leave The Airport) actually highlights the problem with these stats. I have no doubt that Delta can rightfully claim the ‘highest percentage of ontime departures in the industry’ but what they call ‘ontime departure’ means that the doors are closed at the gate (or perhaps that it has pushed off from the gate).... it doesn’t actually mean the plane has just departed off the end of the runway or that its wheels are no longer in contact with terra firma.

This has frustrated me on many flights. Here’s but one example..... once I ran like stink to make a Delta connecting flight (I think it was Cincinnati) only to arrive at the gate to find the plane just sitting there. Oh... it was an ontime departure all right. The plane just sat there for about 20 minutes or so without moving while I was standing not more than about 100 feet away but with no way to get on to the plane. It made me wonder how many other passengers were left in the lurch because of Delta insistance on making such a big fuss about their ‘highest ontime departure’ stats.


15 posted on 01/02/2020 9:11:52 AM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: C19fan

The Hammer and Sickle is a nod to their past.
I’ve flown Aerflot many times, having in-laws in Russia (even back in the Tupolev days), and I can attest to this - everything they do is first class and they are highly professional. The food is great too.


16 posted on 01/02/2020 9:12:19 AM PST by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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To: albie

Look between the wings on the left side.


17 posted on 01/02/2020 9:17:13 AM PST by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: C19fan

Aeroflot is on time!! The Pilots don’t want to live in Siberia..


18 posted on 01/02/2020 9:24:06 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: C19fan

World’s oldest airline in operation since 1923. In three years, it will be celebrating 100 years in business.

Its outlasted the Soviet Union!


19 posted on 01/02/2020 9:28:45 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: albie

They kept the Soviet era logo because its world famous and a signature brand for the company.

Which is still majority state-owned. Its Russia’s national flag carrier.


20 posted on 01/02/2020 9:31:33 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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