Analysis
Questions about flying that can be settled by counting flights rather than by opinion. Each piece is computed from the record when you load it, so the numbers in it are the numbers on the rest of the site — March 2025 – August 2026.
Why some airlines run late and others do not
Two carriers fly the same routes into the same weather. One arrives on time far more often. The record shows where the difference actually comes from.
Why your return flight runs later than your outbound
The same route, flown the other way, is measurably worse. We checked every route in the record to see how often that holds.
The worst month to fly, measured
Everyone has a theory about summer storms and Christmas queues. Here is what the flights themselves did, month by month.
A cancellation costs you more than a delay — and the airlines differ wildly
Cancellation is the outcome that loses you a day and the one that triggers a refund. Some carriers do it five times as often as others.
Why these and not others
A piece only appears here if the data can settle it. That rules out most of what a travel site publishes — the best seat, the cheapest month to book, whether an airline's service has slipped — because none of those are in a punctuality file, and writing them anyway would mean guessing in a confident voice.
It also means the conclusions are not decided in advance. Whether return flights really do run later than outbound ones is a question the query answers, and the piece reports whichever way it comes out — including, where that happens, that the effect is too small to act on.