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Best airline to Netherlands

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

Most punctual on Netherlands routes

Transavia

89.4% on time across 526 flights

# Airline Flights On time
1 Transavia 526 89.4%
2 BA CityFlyer 7,348 79.4%
3 British Airways 8,706 78.3%
4 Ryanair UK 227 78.3%
5 KLM Cityhopper 8,759 76.8%
6 easyJet Europe 7,473 75.4%
7 Ryanair 3,276 74.5%
8 KLM 55,291 71.7%
9 easyJet 20,889 70.5%
10 Qatar Airways 486 0%

Busiest routes into Netherlands

LHR → AMS London to Amsterdam (GB–NL) 8,475 flights · 78.41% on time C LCY → AMS London to Amsterdam (GB–NL) 5,741 flights · 70.47% on time F MAN → AMS Manchester to Amsterdam (GB–NL) 5,674 flights · 60.23% on time F EDI → AMS Ingliston to Amsterdam (GB–NL) 3,583 flights · 69.4% on time F BHX → AMS Birmingham to Amsterdam (GB–NL) 3,478 flights · 66.08% on time F BRS → AMS Bristol to Amsterdam (GB–NL) 3,292 flights · 64.01% on time F NCL → AMS Newcastle upon Tyne to Amsterdam (GB–NL) 2,835 flights · 68.75% on time F LGW → AMS London to Amsterdam (GB–NL) 2,696 flights · 73.91% on time D ABZ → AMS Aberdeen to Amsterdam (GB–NL) 2,582 flights · 76.2% on time D LTN → AMS Luton to Amsterdam (GB–NL) 2,468 flights · 79.54% on time C GLA → AMS Glasgow to Amsterdam (GB–NL) 2,253 flights · 69.86% on time F LBA → AMS Leeds to Amsterdam (GB–NL) 1,653 flights · 64.33% 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 →