Is Aegean Airlines reliable?
Ranked 47 of 94 US airlines on on-time record.
4,627 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
72.71%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
0.61%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
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When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
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Delays it caused itself
Rest was weather, ATC or security
Reading Aegean Airlines’ record
Aegean Airlines’ record swings sharply from route to route — roughly 23 points either side of its own average. An overall figure hiding that much variation is not much use on its own: the route you are flying matters more than the airline's headline number, and this is a carrier whose average is being held up by some routes and dragged down by others.
The extremes are far apart. On ATH to LGW it arrived on time 96.08% of the time; on MAN to ATH the figure was 22.49%. Same airline, same fleet, same procedures — which is the clearest argument on this site for checking the route rather than the carrier.
Aegean Airlines sits mid-table, which for an airline's punctuality is a better outcome than it sounds.
Each axis is a percentile against the other US airlines in the same period, not an absolute score. Further out is better than most; nearer the centre is worse than most.
Aegean Airlines in five measures
An airline's headline on-time rate hides more than it shows. Two carriers can both arrive on time 75% of the time while one is late by twelve minutes and the other by an hour, or while one is evenly mediocre everywhere and the other is excellent on most routes and dreadful on a few.
These five axes pull those apart. Each is scored against the other US airlines in the same period rather than on an absolute scale, because on-time rates cluster tightly enough that raw numbers would draw every carrier as the same shape.
Same everywhere is the one worth reading twice: it measures how far Aegean Airlines’ on-time rate moves from route to route. A carrier scoring low there has an average propped up by routes you may not be flying.
Its most reliable routes
- ATH → LGW Spata-Artemida to London 96.08%
- LGW → ATH London to Spata-Artemida 92.16%
- ATH → EDI Spata-Artemida to Ingliston 82.41%
- ATH → LHR Spata-Artemida to London 80.65%
- LHR → ATH London to Spata-Artemida 71.34%
- ATH → MAN Spata-Artemida to Manchester 63.64%
- EDI → ATH Ingliston to Spata-Artemida 45.73%
- MAN → ATH Manchester to Spata-Artemida 22.49%
Its worst routes
- MAN → ATH Manchester to Spata-Artemida 22.49%
- EDI → ATH Ingliston to Spata-Artemida 45.73%
- ATH → MAN Spata-Artemida to Manchester 63.64%
- LHR → ATH London to Spata-Artemida 71.34%
- ATH → LHR Spata-Artemida to London 80.65%
- ATH → EDI Spata-Artemida to Ingliston 82.41%
- LGW → ATH London to Spata-Artemida 92.16%
- ATH → LGW Spata-Artemida to London 96.08%
How Aegean Airlines compares
Figures cover March 2025 – August 2026 and are counted from the regulators' own published files. A grade describes the past and is not a prediction about a particular flight, nor a safety rating. How the grade is calculated →