Best airline to Australia
Ranked on one measure only: how often each airline's flights on Australia routes actually arrived on time. Not seat width, not service — punctuality, from the regulator's own file.
| # | Airline | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | British Airways | 977 | 81.4% |
| 2 | Qantas | 118,414 | 79% |
| 3 | QantasLink | 138,409 | 78.4% |
| 4 | Virgin Australia | 199,937 | 77.3% |
| 5 | Jetstar | 112,511 | 74.1% |
| 6 | Rex Airlines | 23,633 | 71.8% |
| 7 | Virgin Australia Regional Airlines | 2,071 | 69.5% |
Busiest routes into Australia
What "best" means here, and what it does not
Punctuality is one dimension of a good airline and not the one most people would name first. It is, however, the only one that is measured the same way for every carrier and published by somebody with no stake in the answer — which makes it the one worth ranking on.
It is also route-specific. An airline near the bottom of this table may be excellent elsewhere; what the table says is how it ran on these particular routes over this particular period. The same list, worst first →