{"id":543796,"date":"2025-11-02T08:31:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T08:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/543796\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T08:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T08:31:14","slug":"popular-and-affordable-carrier-jet2-named-most-reliable-airline-in-britain-for-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/543796\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular and Affordable Carrier Jet2 Named Most Reliable Airline In Britain For 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

In air travel, there\u2019s one thing that matters above all else. Comfort is ideal and decent food is always a plus, but the bottom line is that you want to get where you\u2019re going on time.<\/p>\n

You can boost your chances of getting on a flight that arrives on schedule by opting for a more trustworthy airline, and luckily, the aviation experts at AirAdvisor have just released a ranking based on reliability.\u00a0The report\u00a0analysed data from nearly 1.5 million flights between 2023 and 2024, looking at which company was operating which journey, and which ones were delayed or cancelled.<\/p>\n

After all the numbers were crunched, AirAdvisor found that Jet2<\/strong> was the most reliable provider in the UK. In 2023, 75.8 percent of Jet2 flights got to their destinations in time, and even though that number fell to just 67.4 percent, it didn\u2019t stop the company from claiming the top spot.<\/p>\n

Part of that is because its cancellation rates are so low. Only 0.02 percent of Jet2 flights ended up not taking off, the lowest of any British airline. As a budget carrier, this is a particularly notable feat. Jet2 came fourth in AirAdvisor\u2019s overall ranking of airlines, largely because it had a higher cost-per-mile ratio than any of its competitors.<\/p>\n

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The second most reliable airline was easyJet<\/strong>, with only 1.7 percent of flights cancelled in 2023, a rate which fell to only 1.1 percent in 2024. Considering that the orange carrier is by far the largest in the UK, that\u2019s not too bad at all.<\/p>\n

Virgin Atlantic<\/strong> was the third most reliable, and also joint first overall alongside British Airways. It was a bit of a mixed bag for cancellations, with a very low rate of 0.5 percent in 2023 that jumped to 1.7 percent the next year. Most flights are on time \u2013 75.7 and 70 percent in 2023 and 24 respectively \u2013 and according to AirAdvisor, \u2018The only reason Virgin doesn\u2019t appear higher in the list is their size. They don\u2019t run nearly as many flights annually as easyJet or Jet2\u2019.<\/p>\n

On the end of the spectrum, TUI<\/strong> had the lowest percentage of flights arrive on time. Only 55 percent \u2013 just over half \u2013 of TUI trips reach their destination when they\u2019re meant to, although they do have a pretty low cancellation rate of only 0.3 percent. E<\/strong>astern Airways<\/strong> was the least reliable company in the study, with a whopping 12 percent of trips ending up cancelled.<\/p>\n

The five most reliable airlines in Britain<\/p>\n

Here are the top five most reliable airlines in the UK, according to data from AirAdvisor:<\/p>\n

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  1. Jet2<\/strong><\/li>\n

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  2. EasyJet<\/strong><\/li>\n

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  3. Virgin Atlantic<\/strong><\/li>\n

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  4. British Airways<\/strong><\/li>\n

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  5. Blue Islands<\/strong><\/li>\n

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    You can see the full report on AirAdvisor here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    This is\u00a0the airline that has just returned to the UK after a five-year ban<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

    The major British airport that is spending \u00a3300 million on improvements over the next four years<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

    Stay in the loop:\u00a0sign up to our\u00a0free Time Out UK newsletter<\/a>\u00a0for the latest UK news and the best stuff happening across the country.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In air travel, there\u2019s one thing that matters above all else. Comfort is ideal and decent food is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,11648,393,4884,11649,1144,712,183,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-543796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-categories-travel","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-news-transport-travel","14":"tag-northern-ireland","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-travel","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115479176516283682","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}