What's the likelihood of your flight being on time? Airline punctuality 2010 published.

Added 22/03/2011

If you’ve got a flight booked, or you are currently shopping around for a flight, don’t just think about the price, you can also check out an airline’s record on timings and delays before you make a decision.

The latest league table showing airline punctuality has just been published by flightontime.info.

Bmi Regional has topped the league table, which details on-time airlines from UK airports for January to December 2010. The table, which has been put together using arrival and departure times recorded by the Civil Aviation Authority, shows the average delay in minutes, as well as the percentage of arrivals and departures within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.

Ryanair, the low cost airline we all love to hate, was in 15th position with an average delay of 13.7 minutes and 75.9% of flights within 15 minutes of the scheduled time. This beat British Airways, who came 20th in the table, with an average delay time of 15.1 minutes and only 74% of flights arriving and departing within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.

	Rank	Average delay in minutes	Within 15 mins (%)	More than 1 hour late (%)
bmi Regional	1st	7.1	89.7	3.2
Eastern Airways	2nd	8.3	89.2	3.9
City Jet / Scot Airways	3rd	8.8	85.6	3.4
VLM Airlines	4th	8.9	86	3.8
KLM (incl Cityhopper)	5th	9.3	84.7	3.2
Scandinavian SAS	6th	10.1	81.8	4
Loganair	7th	10.2	86.4	4.6
Air Southwest	8th	10.3	82	4.4
Air Berlin	9th	11.7	79.1	4.2
bmi British Midland	10th	11.7	79.2	4.3
Brussels Airlines	11th	12	79.1	4.8
Swiss Airlines	12th	12.3	75.8	4.2
Flybe	13th	13.3	81	5.8
BA CityFlyer	14th	13.5	78.5	6.3
Ryanair	15th	13.7	75.9	4.4
Aer Lingus	16th	13.7	77.9	5.5
Air France	17th	13.9	75.1	4.8
United Airlines	18th	14.4	76	5.8
Alitalia	19th	15.1	68.6	5.1
British Airways	20th	15.1	74	5.5