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Why You Should Never Fly at Night on These 30 Airlines
27.07.2023 - 18:04 / smartertravel.com / Airlines
Sometimes a red-eye flight can be the perfect solution to your long-haul trip. It can offer a place to sleep (so you don’t have to pay for an additional night of lodging); plus, a morning arrival means you can hit the ground running when you arrive. But depending on the airline, choosing evening—or even afternoon—travel can be a grave mistake that could throw your trip into a spiral.
Why? There’s a notably long list of airlines that are much more delay-prone than the average carrier, making it potentially problematic to fly with them during hours when schedule-based delays are more common.
There are some clear time periods when delays are more common: According to an analysis of Bureau of Transportation Statistics on FiveThirtyEight, late aircraft are the most common cause for flight delays, and overall flight delays peak around 6 p.m. The worst airlines for on-time performance are much more likely to be in a tizzy at that time of day and into the evening, which can sometimes lead to passengers getting stranded overnight.
Related:The One Thing You Need to Do on a Red Eye FlightFiveThirtyEight also argues that “weather-related delays are highest between 3 and 11 p.m., when thunderstorms are more likely to form.”
The only flights that are virtually guaranteed to be on-time on a given day (barring any weather or emergency issues) are the first ones to depart, since there are no prior planes or traffic that they need to accommodate, and air traffic is generally less crowded. The likelihood of a flight being delayed or canceled increases over the period of a day, peaking at 6 p.m., as schedule changes and air-traffic delays pile up that can potentially affect flight paths even outside a particular flight’s route.
The average airline isn’t particularly risky to fly with at night for those reasons, but it’s a good idea to try and avoid late-in-the-day flights on chronically delayed airlines. Frequent flyers often find out through trial and error which airlines and routes are problematic. And the later in the evening flights are delayed or canceled, the more likely they are to be canceled and rescheduled for the following day, which could require an impromptu hotel booking if you’re not in your home city.
The good news is that it’s surprisingly easy to spot the offending airlines thanks to publicly available ratings for on-time performance. Passenger rights website AirHelp accounts for flight delays in its AirHelp Score Global Airline Rankings, which includes the worst airlines for timeliness. And sorting the airlines by “on-time performance” provides both the stand-out best as well as the world’s worst airlines for delays.
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