Originally Posted by
pax britanica
Ryanairs punctuality is largely because they fly to an airport that no one else uses and is 80Km from where you actually want to go to. But many of these airports suit quite a lot of people who are not near a major airport. So that alone gives them a good on time departure record and a decent market from people who dont want to travel to a big city airport.
That was true 10 years ago - but Ryanair have been flying to main airports (often as well as secondary airports) for a long time now.
When you've got 570 aircraft to schedule - you need to fly to both primary
and secondary airports.
https://www.airfleets.net/flottecie/...gs%20Group.htm