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Best airline to India

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

Most punctual on India routes

Virgin Atlantic

80.3% on time across 5,015 flights

# Airline Flights On time
1 Virgin Atlantic 5,015 80.3%
2 British Airways 6,699 76.5%
3 Air Canada 239 72.4%
4 Air India 8,172 45.2%

Busiest routes into India

LHR → DEL London to New Delhi (GB–IN) 3,758 flights · 56.47% on time F LHR → BOM London to Mumbai (GB–IN) 3,406 flights · 66.83% on time D LHR → BLR London to Bengaluru (GB–IN) 1,519 flights · 68.12% on time D LHR → MAA London to Chennai (GB–IN) 480 flights · 73.74% on time C LGW → AMD London to Ahmedabad (GB–IN) 221 flights · 60.85% on time F BHX → ATQ Birmingham to Amritsar (GB–IN) 219 flights · 36.76% on time F BHX → DEL Birmingham to New Delhi (GB–IN) 198 flights · 44.39% on time F LGW → ATQ London to Amritsar (GB–IN) 168 flights · 57.05% on time F LGW → GOI London to Vasco da Gama (GB–IN) 102 flights · 72.34% on time F

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 →