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Best airline to Sweden

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

Most punctual on Sweden routes

SAS

84% on time across 5,157 flights

# Airline Flights On time
1 SAS 5,157 84%
2 British Airways 5,044 83.1%
3 Ryanair 4,561 71.7%

Busiest routes into Sweden

LHR → ARN London to Stockholm (GB–SE) 3,435 flights · 85.26% on time B STN → GOT London to Göteborg (GB–SE) 950 flights · 74% on time C LHR → GOT London to Göteborg (GB–SE) 862 flights · 83.9% on time B STN → ARN London to Stockholm (GB–SE) 655 flights · 66.56% on time D MAN → ARN Manchester to Stockholm (GB–SE) 487 flights · 64.51% on time D EDI → ARN Ingliston to Stockholm (GB–SE) 315 flights · 81.41% on time B MAN → GOT Manchester to Göteborg (GB–SE) 291 flights · 59.11% on time F STN → VST London to Stockholm / Västerås (GB–SE) 142 flights · 83.8% on time B EDI → GOT Ingliston to Göteborg (GB–SE) 125 flights · 58.4% on time F BHX → ARN Birmingham to Stockholm (GB–SE) 123 flights · 52.85% 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 →