Qantas Group Lead December 2009 OTP Figures

[Brad Myer]

Interesting...

http://www.bitre.gov.au/publications...ber%202009.pdf

On Time Arrivals:

Qantas: 90.2%
QantasLink: 84.9%
Jetstar: 84.5%
Virgin Blue: 84%
Regional Ex: 80.7%
Skywest: 80.3%
Tiger Airways: 76.9%

Cancellations:

QantasLink: 0.6%
Qantas: 0.7%
Tiger Air: 1.7%
Jetstar: 1.9%
Virgin Blue: 2.2%

[Sarah C]

I thought the better figures was the fact QF have the best figures for 9 of the 12 months in 2009.

http://www.qantas.com.au/regions/dyn...010/jan10/4008

[Marty H]

VB would have been pulled down alot by the major IT outage in December in MEL and the onflow effects of it several days afterwards.

19 months in 2009 Sarah what calender are you looking at

[NickN]

What is the reason for the LCC's having worse OTP by a margin of around 5%?

They are meant to be more strict with policy than QF for example in order to get planes out on time and under budget.

Tiger have quite strict conditions about check in etc yet they are one of the worst. I doubt they are all WX related delays.

[Daniel F]

LCC have a very tight turnaround time. So one delayed flight will delay the entire day's schedule. Whereas with Qantas, their turnaround times are longer so even if one flight is delayed, they can easily catch up.

[D Chan]

generally the case but not always. The most obvious sign is to look for utilisation rates of the 737 fleet as a comparison. Don't forget about aircraft swaps + fleet size as well - should it be required aircraft swaps can take place as well.

[Chris W]

For on time departures;

QF - 89.1
QLink- 87.9
ZL - 86.4
DJ - 83.8
JQ - 83.3
TT - 76.3

And on the cancellation rate, ZL actually had the lowest of all airlines at 0.1% (or 7 cancelled flights from 5,361).

[Daniel F]

I've never understood why on-time departure figures are reported. Does it really matter if the flight leaves on-time... what really matters is whether the flight arrives on time.

I've been on Perth-Sydney red-eye flights where the departure has been delayed to make sure the flight doesn't arrive before the curfew is lifted. The flight still arrived on time.

[Marty H]

Daniel OTP performace is of very high importance to all airlines. Planes at mojar ports such as MEL SYD BNE need aircraft to depart ontime for such reasons as gate allocation for inbound aircraft.

[Daniel F]

But that's something the airlines and airports can deal with themselves. What's the reason for making departure stats publicly available? The public doesn't care... they just care about the arrival.