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79.2% of Aer Lingus top 20 flights go on time....
79.2% of Ryanair top 20 flights go on time.....
Identical on time record. However, when it goes wrong look below for real statistics.
If you keep on giving out one liners like "Europe's low cost airline" "Europe's most on time airline", people tend to believe the spin. You are paid to say these things so I never take it personally. But statistics don't lie......
Average delay with Aer Lingus
if a flight is delayed is 18 mins.
Average delay with Ryanair
if a flight is delayed is
25 mins.
Average MAX delay
in worst case scenario with Aer Lingus is
135.6 mins
Average MAX delay
worst case scenario with Ryanair is
230.3 mins
So that means that
Aer Lingus matches and actually exceed Ryanair in all aspects of it's on time statistics.
The statistics don't lie. What they show is a low cost airline competing agressively with Ryanair in all areas.
Where Aer Lingus wins hands down is the extra efforts made in the event of an unfortunate unavoidable delay. Aer Lingus will always push to get the passengers out eventually. Ryanair simply do not make the same effort. The statistics bear this out.
What one must remember is Aer Lingus serves major hubs to major international airports. Even with Ryanair flying into mainly small, countryside airports miles from anywhere they still lose hands down to Aer Lingus with on time statistics. Amazing really, coming from Europe's most on time......sorry, Europe's most complained about airline.
While I'm here....
Ryanair pre tax loss in year to March 2009 is £155,000,000.
Aer Lingus pre tax loss in year to March 2009 is £103,900,000.
So again Aer Lingus ahead of it's main competitor.