World's Most-Delayed Airports

GaryMan

Beijing Capital International (PEK)

Worst departure rank: 1

Percentage of on-time departures: 47.86 percent

Beijing's airport is among the world's busiest — nearly 54 million passengers in 2007 — and it undoubtedly saw a massive increase in 2008, as the city hosted the Olympics. However, once again it holds a high spot on our list of worst departures. Of Beijing's late departures, 45 percent were delayed by 30 minutes or more, according to a sampling of the airport's flights.

whatren

曾经有一次去首都机场接人，被告知坐国航1点半从上海出发到北京。

上海到北京，最狠的时候晚上八点半该到北京我早上4点才到。

总之，没准时过。

于是我2点到了首都机场去接人，左找右找也找不到人。

后来才发现，那次航班提早到了1个小时。

海娃

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sweeet

我记得是印度得的第一

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Mumbai tops list of world's most-delayed airports

Updated Sat. Jan. 10 2009 7:23 AM ET

Brian Wingfield, Forbes.com

Planning to visit India or Europe? Budget extra travel time. If airport delays in 2008 are any indication, you'll need it.

India takes the prize as the country with the most frequent late arrivals in our second annual tallying of the world's most-delayed airports. For departures, European airports--notably those in Italy--make up the bulk of the worst, though Beijing Capital Airport grabs the top spot.

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India is a peculiar case. Its biggest airports have undertaken massive construction projects to cope with the country's rapid growth. Our most-delayed airport, Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International, opened a new taxiway in November to reduce the wait time for landing aircraft.

Good thing--only 50% of its flights arrived on time in 2008, according to FlightStats, a service that tracks historical and real-time flight information.

New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport, with a 51 per cent on-time arrival percentage last year, fully opened a third runway in October.

In May, Bangalore saw the addition of a sleek new airport, Bengaluru International, where growing pains account for some of the arrival delays. The airports ranked second and fourth on the list of worst arrivals, respectively.

In India, delayed arrivals are largely attributed to air congestion at a flight's origin, says a spokesperson for Bengaluru International Airport Limited, which owns and operates the city's new airport.

There, 80 per cent of departures were on time in 2008, yet just 60 per cent of flights arrived as scheduled. Why the difference? Faster runway exits and improved efficiency at the new airport give a boost to the percentage of flights departing on time.

Also high on the list of airports with the lowest percentage of on-time arrivals: Casablanca's Mohammed V International Airport (54 per cent on time); Orio al Serio Airport near Bergamo, Italy (61 per cent); New York LaGuardia (62 per cent); Newark Liberty International (62 per cent); Birmingham Airport in England (63 per cent); London's Luton and Heathrow Airports (both 63 per cent on time).

According to Kyla Evans, a spokeswoman for Eurocontrol, the Brussels-based air navigation safety organization, airspace and taxiway congestion are the main cause for delays in Europe.

Seems logical, given the high number of European airports with delayed departures. They include: Manchester Airport in northern England (49 per cent on time); Venice's Marco Polo International (54 per cent); Nice Côte d'Azur International (56 per cent); Rome's Fiumicino International (58 per cent); and Paris' Charles Orio al Serio, near Bergamo (59 per cent); Athens International (61 per cent); and Paris' Charles DeGaulle International (62 per cent on-time).

Officials from several European airports did not respond to requests for comment. Nor did those from Beijing Capital International, which was the hub for Olympic air traffic in August.

Compiling a list of the world's most-delayed airports is no easy task. Geneva-based Airports Council International (ACI) doesn't track arrival and departure information. Thus, we again asked FlightStats, operated by Conducive Technology Corp. in Portland, Ore., to pull on-time information for the world's busiest 200 airports, as determined by ACI.

FlightStats gets its information from airlines, airports, flight reservation systems and other sources. For information about U.S. airports, we cross-checked the company's data with information published by the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

Our list this year looks slightly different from last year's because we examined only those airports about which FlightStats has the most detailed information. Notably, we omitted some airports in South America from consideration.

One constant: The world's least-delayed airports are concentrated in Japan and Korea. Of the world's 200 busiest airports, not a single one in Japan or Korea has an on-time percentage below 82 per cent, arrivals and departures included.

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原帖由 whatren 于 2009-1-14 22:28 发表
曾经有一次去首都机场接人，被告知坐国航1点半从上海出发到北京。

上海到北京，最狠的时候晚上八点半该到北京我早上4点才到。

总之，没准时过。

于是我2点到了首都机场去接人，左找右找也找不到人。

后来 ...

深有同感。
在国内时，因工作关系长期当北京-上海的空中飞人，粗算下来飞了至少四、五十个来回，记忆中来回皆准点起飞的没有，来回都晚点的倒有好几次。最惨的一次是订了晚上7点半由浦东回北京的航班，兴冲冲的提前一个半小时赶到机场，准备体验一下浦东贵宾休息室，结果被告知飞机无限期延误，被迫座免费大巴颠簸到了虹桥机场，此时已经是7点半了。去换票时售票小姐以极其良好的态度告诉我：最早一班有座位的飞机将于晚9：30起飞，当时真是郁闷死我了。但是毫无办法。结果到家已经是半夜12点以后了。

sweeet

北京飞机起飞延误多大多是因为空管的原因，其实空中利用率已经非常高了，国内国际航班那么多，专机军机，还有日韩飞欧洲的过路航班，所以这个是没办法的，我觉得已经很不错了。欧美机场的准点率并不怎么样，还是亚太的好些（印度除外）。