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Best airline to France

Ranked on one measure only: how often each airline's flights on France routes actually arrived on time. Not seat width, not service — punctuality, from the regulator's own file.

Most punctual on France routes

Vueling

83.9% on time across 2,586 flights

# Airline Flights On time
1 Vueling 2,586 83.9%
2 Wizz Air UK 436 81.4%
3 British Airways 24,125 77.7%
4 easyJet Switzerland 638 77.2%
5 Ryanair UK 1,542 72.3%
6 Air France 18,570 71%
7 easyJet 45,288 68.2%
8 Ryanair 16,404 66.6%
9 TUI Airways 987 63.1%
10 easyJet Europe 2,645 62.8%
11 BA Euroflyer 2,495 62.8%
12 Jet2 2,214 58.6%
13 BA CityFlyer 1,705 53.7%

Busiest routes into France

LHR → CDG London to Paris (Roissy-en-France (GB–FR) 6,310 flights · 76.54% on time C MAN → CDG Manchester to Paris (Roissy-en-France (GB–FR) 3,677 flights · 62.25% on time D LHR → NCE London to Nice (GB–FR) 3,474 flights · 75.53% on time C EDI → CDG Ingliston to Paris (Roissy-en-France (GB–FR) 2,476 flights · 70.95% on time D LGW → NCE London to Nice (GB–FR) 2,350 flights · 63.32% on time D BHX → CDG Birmingham to Paris (Roissy-en-France (GB–FR) 2,182 flights · 69.92% on time D LGW → CDG London to Paris (Roissy-en-France (GB–FR) 2,131 flights · 66.1% on time D LTN → CDG Luton to Paris (Roissy-en-France (GB–FR) 1,565 flights · 74.66% on time C LHR → MRS London to Marignane (GB–FR) 1,532 flights · 81.29% on time B LHR → BSL London to Bâle / Mulhouse (GB–FR) 1,490 flights · 79.03% on time C LGW → BOD London to Bordeaux (GB–FR) 1,412 flights · 66.12% on time D NCL → CDG Newcastle upon Tyne to Paris (Roissy-en-France (GB–FR) 1,404 flights · 67.84% on time D

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 →