Best airline from Sydney (Mascot) to Launceston (Western Junction)

Most punctual on this route

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Virgin Australia

87.11% on time across 226 flights · 0.44% cancelled

That is 7.2 points clear of Jetstar, the next best on this route at 79.88%.

Every airline on SYD to LST, ranked

# Airline Flights On time Cancelled Grade
1 Virgin Australia 226 87.11% 0.44% A
2 Jetstar 324 79.88% 0.31% B
3 QantasLink 233 78.7% 1.29% C

Why this is worth checking per route

An airline's overall punctuality is an average across everywhere it flies, and averages hide the thing you are booking. A carrier can be middling nationally and the best option on this particular pair of airports — because of which slots it holds, what time of day it schedules, and which aircraft feeds the flight.

On SYD to LST the spread between best and worst is 8.4 points. Both carriers fly the same corridor, into the same weather and the same air traffic control — so a gap that size is a fact about the airlines, not the route.

Punctuality is one dimension of a good airline and not the one most people would name first. It is, though, the only one measured the same way for everybody and published by someone with no stake in the answer. Full SYD to LST record → · Best time of year to fly it →