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Best airline to Iceland

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

Most punctual on Iceland routes

British Airways

87.7% on time across 411 flights

# Airline Flights On time
1 British Airways 411 87.7%
2 easyJet 1,201 82.8%
3 Icelandair 2,123 82.7%

Busiest routes into Iceland

LHR → KEF London to Reykjavík (GB–IS) 626 flights · 85.09% on time B MAN → KEF Manchester to Reykjavík (GB–IS) 396 flights · 83.38% on time B LGW → KEF London to Reykjavík (GB–IS) 369 flights · 79.95% on time C GLA → KEF Glasgow to Reykjavík (GB–IS) 194 flights · 82.81% on time B LTN → KEF Luton to Reykjavík (GB–IS) 164 flights · 88.96% on time A

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 →