Soekarno Hatta world’s 2nd most on time airport Indonesia

December 20, 2009 | Posted by starwr

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The Soekarno-Hatta International Airport is good at one thing: punctuality.

Luxury travel news portal Forbestraveler.com has announced that the airport is the second most on-time international airport worldwide according to data from FlightStats, an Oregon-based company that tracks flight information for airports and airlines around the world.

The portal ranked Soekarno-Hatta below reigning champion, Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, and above Narita, which came in third.

The data defined an on-time airport as one having the most flights less than 15 minutes late.

The same yardstick is used by the Geneva-based Airports Council International.
The study, which included 50 of the busiest airports in the world, took data from August 1, 2008, to July 31, 2009.

The portal’s report called Soekarno-Hatta this year’s most improved airport on its top ten as it ”jumped from last year’s sixth slot thanks to impressive 84.2 percent on-time arrivals and 89.2 percent on-time departures.”

Comments:

Appearently some people didn’t how to read an article. It wrote: it jumped from last year’s sixth slot thanks to impressive “84.2 percent on-time arrivals and 89.2 percent” on-time departures. Arrival and departure flights were 79.3 percent and 86.3 percent on-time, respectively, last year. The data defined an on-time airport as one having the most flights less than 15 minutes late.

The Quotation didn’t say about punctuality 100% and services at the airport. The germans are very famous with the punctuality but their trains are often delay and the consequence is really poor.

Rating is always such an important publicity in the Indonesian point of view. It is like a kid who cheated through school but managed coincidentally in showing good grades on the report card.

Nonetheless, Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta is a quick in and out airport facility that I have ever known in my travels. Knock on wood so far….But a need for improvement for the Indonesian airport is always a welcoming gesture. Those who have traveled within the US know well that there are always flights delays.

And in the limelight several months ago, a US domestic flight passengers have been stranded for hours on board an aircraft without being given a logical explanation to the cause. These passengers were not allowed to the terminals and therefore remained on board for several hours.