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Best airline to Germany

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

Most punctual on Germany routes

BA CityFlyer

83.5% on time across 1,954 flights

# Airline Flights On time
1 BA CityFlyer 1,954 83.5%
2 British Airways 11,610 82.4%
3 Lufthansa 14,036 78.9%
4 Eurowings 7,802 78.6%
5 Ryanair UK 424 75.4%
6 easyJet 4,380 73.6%
7 Ryanair 7,889 68.7%

Busiest routes into Germany

LHR → FRA London to Frankfurt am Main (GB–DE) 3,011 flights · 80.81% on time C LHR → MUC London to Munich (GB–DE) 2,784 flights · 80.43% on time C LHR → DUS London to Düsseldorf (GB–DE) 1,592 flights · 83.12% on time B LHR → BER London to Berlin (GB–DE) 1,414 flights · 82.9% on time C LHR → HAM London to Hamburg (GB–DE) 1,343 flights · 78.49% on time C LHR → STR London to Stuttgart (GB–DE) 890 flights · 79.09% on time C LHR → CGN London to Köln (Cologne) (GB–DE) 760 flights · 79.46% on time C MAN → FRA Manchester to Frankfurt am Main (GB–DE) 734 flights · 72.75% on time D BHX → FRA Birmingham to Frankfurt am Main (GB–DE) 687 flights · 73.12% on time D STN → BER London to Berlin (GB–DE) 678 flights · 73.37% on time D LCY → BER London to Berlin (GB–DE) 617 flights · 77.69% on time C STN → CGN London to Köln (Cologne) (GB–DE) 587 flights · 70.82% 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 →