The Yorkshire-based airline fared better than its UK competitors such as easyJet, which had a 1.3% cancellation rate last month, while British Airways saw 3.6% of flights cancelled and Virgin Atlantic had a cancellation rate of 2.3%.
Jet2 also recorded the second-best OTP among UK airlines of 60.4% in July – ranking just behind Virgin Atlantic’s 60.6%.
Although this level of punctuality was only good enough for Jet2 to rank 99th among all qualifying global airlines. The highest-ranking European airline was Lufthansa Group’s Eurowings, which achieved an OTP of 92.5% in July.
OAG classifies a flight as being on time if it arrives at the gate within 15 minutes of its scheduled time.
During July, Jet2 operated just over 12,000 flights catering more than two million passengers as the summer peak season got under way. This included the airline’s busiest ever weekend on 23-24 July when it operated more than 800 flights.
Steve Heapy, chief executive of Jet2.com and Jet2holidays, said: “This exhaustive data published by OAG is proof that Jet2.com is the airline that customers and independent travel agents can trust.
“This summer is proving to be incredibly busy and because we prepared well in advance, it means we are flying millions of happy holidaymakers to and from their destinations without having to cancel their plans.
“There has been a lot of focus on the disruption affecting our industry, but this data shows that it is not all bad news.”
