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Best airline to Saudi Arabia

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

Most punctual on Saudi Arabia routes

Virgin Atlantic

84.7% on time across 394 flights

# Airline Flights On time
1 Virgin Atlantic 394 84.7%
2 British Airways 1,817 77.4%
3 Wizz Air UK 792 56.1%

Busiest routes into Saudi Arabia

LHR → RUH London to Riyadh (GB–SA) 860 flights · 74.1% on time D LGW → JED London to Jeddah (GB–SA) 395 flights · 55.96% on time F LHR → JED London to Jeddah (GB–SA) 256 flights · 76.42% 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 →