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Best airline to Spain

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

Most punctual on Spain routes

Air Europa

84.2% on time across 844 flights

# Airline Flights On time
1 Air Europa 844 84.2%
2 British Airways 8,263 79%
3 Vueling 10,286 78.6%
4 Wizz Air UK 1,072 77.3%
5 easyJet 34,089 75.2%
6 Jet2 32,586 74.1%
7 Iberia 3,916 73.3%
8 Ryanair 46,202 72.1%
9 Ryanair UK 1,986 70.3%
10 easyJet Europe 3,461 69.3%
11 BA CityFlyer 1,875 68.1%
12 BA Euroflyer 4,172 65.9%
13 TUI Airways 11,175 62%

Busiest routes into Spain

LHR → MAD London to Madrid (GB–ES) 2,767 flights · 78.99% on time C LGW → BCN London to Barcelona (GB–ES) 2,314 flights · 73.49% on time D LGW → AGP London to Málaga (GB–ES) 2,189 flights · 73.52% on time D LHR → BCN London to Barcelona (GB–ES) 2,031 flights · 77.23% on time C MAN → ALC Manchester to Alicante (GB–ES) 1,485 flights · 68.8% on time D LGW → ALC London to Alicante (GB–ES) 1,484 flights · 70.65% on time D MAN → TFS Manchester to Tenerife (GB–ES) 1,406 flights · 70.82% on time D LGW → PMI London to Palma de Mallorca (GB–ES) 1,226 flights · 64.4% on time F LGW → TFS London to Tenerife (GB–ES) 1,174 flights · 69.93% on time D MAN → PMI Manchester to Palma de Mallorca (GB–ES) 1,145 flights · 59.18% on time F MAN → BCN Manchester to Barcelona (GB–ES) 1,025 flights · 63.75% on time F MAN → AGP Manchester to Málaga (GB–ES) 968 flights · 72.3% 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 →