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Best airline to Turkey

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

Most punctual on Turkey routes

British Airways

82.1% on time across 1,561 flights

# Airline Flights On time
1 British Airways 1,561 82.1%
2 Turkish Airlines 7,183 81.5%
3 Wizz Air UK 1,701 76.6%
4 Corendon Airlines 549 70%
5 SunExpress 4,844 69.9%
6 BA Euroflyer 318 65.1%
7 easyJet 5,210 63.9%
8 TUI Airways 1,886 56.2%
9 Jet2 6,662 54.8%
10 Ryanair UK 239 54.4%

Busiest routes into Turkey

LHR → IST London to Istanbul (GB–TR) 1,841 flights · 80.68% on time C LGW → IST London to Istanbul (GB–TR) 1,024 flights · 78.94% on time C LGW → AYT London to Antalya (GB–TR) 1,007 flights · 64.31% on time F MAN → AYT Manchester to Antalya (GB–TR) 954 flights · 56.9% on time F MAN → IST Manchester to Istanbul (GB–TR) 796 flights · 73.52% on time D LGW → DLM London to Dalaman (GB–TR) 663 flights · 64.89% on time F MAN → DLM Manchester to Dalaman (GB–TR) 622 flights · 56.2% on time F BHX → AYT Birmingham to Antalya (GB–TR) 524 flights · 46.74% on time F STN → AYT London to Antalya (GB–TR) 425 flights · 62.41% on time F BHX → IST Birmingham to Istanbul (GB–TR) 421 flights · 79.09% on time C BHX → DLM Birmingham to Dalaman (GB–TR) 339 flights · 53.98% on time F LTN → AYT Luton to Antalya (GB–TR) 339 flights · 63.13% 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 →