Air Canada was the least on-time airline of all major North American air carriers in June, according to a study conducted by aviation analytics company Cirium..Air Canada finished in ninth place with 52.5% of its flights in June arriving on time, according to the study. Cirium said Air Canada made 33,544 total flights. .Its completion factor — the rate of flights not cancelled — was 93.6%. It had 99.8% of its flights tracked. .Cirium said the first-place North American airline was Alaska Airlines, with 80.3% of its flights arriving on time in June. It added Alaska Airlines had 35,057 total flights in June. .Its completion factor was 99.8%. All of its flights were tracked. .Second place went to Delta Air Lines (79.7%). This was followed American Airlines (74.1%), United Airlines (72.6%), and Southwest Airlines (68%)..WestJet was sixth with 66.9% of flights arriving on time..In total there were 694,310 North American flights in June, with two-thirds arriving on time. .Cirium said the most on-time global airline was Columbian airline SA Avianca, with 86.6% of flights arriving on schedule in June — a month where SA Avianca had 17,648 flights. .Its completion rate was 99.2%, with 99.5% of its flights tracked. .Subsequent to SA Avianca were Chilean airline LATAM Airlines (86.5%). This was followed by Qatar Airlines (85%), Japanese air carrier ANA (84.3%) and Saudia (84.1%). .In total, 330,278 global flights took off in June, with 80% of flights landing on time. .The data presented in this study derives from the Cirium Core, which holds information from more than 2,000 sources. It verifies and checks all of the data as it is processed.
