Heathrow today published the latest volume of its magnum fictional "Fly Quiet & Green" opus.
With 4 quarters' results now available from the revised scheme, trends are starting to emerge.
LHR has clearly got it in for China Southern, which yet again gets massively marked down, this time by 20 places, from the position in the "league table" that its performance actually merits. Air China similarly gets demoted by more than a dozen places, as does newbie to the "Top 50" Japan Airlines.
But Air Malta, on the other hand, for some inexplicable reason again gets pushed 10 places further up the table than it should be.
Delta is another airline that seems to have incurred Heathrow's displeasure. Robbed of its rightful Number One slot in Q2, and of second place in Q3, it again qualifies for first place in Q4 but is predictably demoted to 7th place.
El Al, as is traditional, gets awarded more than double the number of points that it actually deserves.
Perhaps most outrageous of all, Flybe, which according to LHR's methodology loses over 100 points each for both its CDA adherence and its track-keeping performance, nevertheless gets propelled into first place after being awarded 930 points out of a possible 1000!
Fly Quiet & Clean Q4 2017