OAG, a global flight scheduling company, placed Chopin Airport 18th in the “small airports” category, with an 87.6 per cent punctuality rate. Small airports are defined as handling fewer than 10 million passengers annually, even though Chopin Airport actually welcomed over 10.5 million travellers in 2014.

“This is a fantastic result and a great success for our services, but it is also the effect of improved cooperation between airlines and ground handling agents. We are continuously working on the optimisation of procedures and better organisation of workload – and it is showing results,” said Radosław Paruzel, deputy director of Chopin Airport.

In the “small airports” category, Bristol topped the ranking (94.4 per cent punctuality rate), followed by Charleroi (93.1 per cent), Berlin-Schonefeld (92.3 per cent) and Trondheim (92.0 per cent).

In the “medium airports” category, where airports served between 10-20 million passengers annually, Osaka came out top (93.2 per cent), followed by Moscow-Sheremetyevo and Copenhagen (both 89.8 per cent). If Warsaw were placed in this category, it would rank 8th.

The most punctual large airports are Munich (89.0 per cent), Tokyo-Haneda (87.9 per cent) and Seattle (86.2 per cent).

The OAG report compiled the punctuality ratings of some 1,000 airports worldwide.

Source: Chopin Airport