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Best airline to Malta

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

Most punctual on Malta routes

Air Malta

87.9% on time across 1,312 flights

# Airline Flights On time
1 Air Malta 1,312 87.9%
2 easyJet 1,481 73.5%
3 Jet2 974 70.7%
4 Ryanair 2,145 62.2%
5 BA Euroflyer 648 56.9%
6 TUI Airways 246 34.2%

Busiest routes into Malta

LGW → MLA London to Valletta (GB–MT) 938 flights · 77.22% on time C MAN → MLA Manchester to Valletta (GB–MT) 505 flights · 69.11% on time D LHR → MLA London to Valletta (GB–MT) 432 flights · 81.16% on time B STN → MLA London to Valletta (GB–MT) 371 flights · 69.81% on time D BHX → MLA Birmingham to Valletta (GB–MT) 223 flights · 68.16% on time D LTN → MLA Luton to Valletta (GB–MT) 169 flights · 76.33% on time C EDI → MLA Ingliston to Valletta (GB–MT) 165 flights · 81.82% on time B LPL → MLA Liverpool to Valletta (GB–MT) 146 flights · 88.36% 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 →