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Best airline to United States

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

Most punctual on United States routes

Gol Linhas Aéreas

88.5% on time across 334 flights

# Airline Flights On time
1 Gol Linhas Aéreas 334 88.5%
2 Delta Air Lines 90,405 82.3%
3 Virgin Atlantic 21,423 81.5%
4 Republic Airways 30,929 81.3%
5 Alaska Airlines 29,891 80.6%
6 Envoy Air 29,207 78.7%
7 SkyWest Airlines 73,673 77.5%
8 United Airlines 94,291 75%
9 JetBlue Airways 20,674 75%
10 British Airways 37,240 74.5%
11 PSA Airlines 20,871 72.3%
12 Aer Lingus 334 72.2%
13 Frontier Airlines 19,104 71.2%
14 American Airlines 107,418 70.7%
15 Allegiant Air 12,663 68.8%
16 Southwest Airlines 120,933 66%
17 LATAM Brasil 398 62.6%

Busiest routes into United States

LHR → JFK London to New York (GB–US) 8,129 flights · 79.23% on time C LHR → EWR London to Newark (GB–US) 4,345 flights · 78.89% on time C LHR → LAX London to Los Angeles (GB–US) 4,114 flights · 76.71% on time C LHR → ORD London to Chicago (GB–US) 3,951 flights · 77.34% on time C LHR → SFO London to San Francisco (GB–US) 2,957 flights · 77.55% on time C LHR → BOS London to Boston (GB–US) 2,643 flights · 79.38% on time C LHR → IAD London to Washington (GB–US) 2,625 flights · 73.66% on time D LHR → MIA London to Miami (GB–US) 2,542 flights · 76.27% on time C LHR → DFW London to Dallas/Fort Worth (GB–US) 2,396 flights · 74.77% on time D LHR → IAH London to Houston (GB–US) 1,832 flights · 73.93% on time C LHR → CLT London to Charlotte (GB–US) 1,482 flights · 76.4% on time D LHR → PHL London to Philadelphia (GB–US) 1,301 flights · 71.55% 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 →