Eight airports in the Philippines were awarded with a one-star rating for On-Time Performance (OTP) based on the results of a 2016-2017 survey conducted by the United Kingdom-based air travel intelligence company Official Aviation Guide (OAG).
The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) announced Sunday that Iloilo International Airport landed on the 14th spot out of 48 international airports included in the survey and earned a one-star rating. It bested several international airports such as Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Korea’s Seoul Incheon International Airport, and Hong Kong International Airport.
Aside from the Iloilo International Airport, other local airports in the country that earned a one-star rating this year were: Bacolod, Davao, Tacloban, Laguindingan (Cagayan de Oro), Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), Kalibo, and Puerto Princesa.
The CAAP said that the OTP star rating is designed to benchmark against set criteria, defined by industry and flight status information experts. OTP is measured across the whole year based on a 12-month rolling performance and this year’s results were measured from October 2016 to September 2017.
To achieve an OTP star rating, the CAAP stated that the world’s airlines and airports must meet two criteria implemented by the OAG: It must have at least 600 operations a month with a minimum number of 2.5 million departed seats;and **OAG must receive flight status information for no less than 80 percent of the scheduled flights within a 12-month period.
The Iloilo International Airport received an annual OTP rating of 67.5 percent with a total 15,624 operations.
The CAAP welcomed the recognition since the OAG is best known for its airline schedule database which holds future and historical flight details of more than 900 airlines and over 4,000 airports.
Thailand’s Bangkok Suvarnabhumi International Airport topped this year’s OAG survey after getting an annual OTP rating of 68.8 percent with 336,964 operations.
It was followed by Canada’s Toronto Lester B. Pearson International Airport, USA’s Newark Liberty International Airport, India’s Udaipur International Airport, and Iceland’s Reykjavik Keflavik International Airport,in the top five.
Just last October 2017, the Iloilo International Airport also placed 12th on Asia’s best airports in a survey conducted by interactive travel website “The Guide to Sleeping in Airports.”
In the same survey, the NAIA was no longer considered as among the top 20 worst airports in the world and the top five worst airports in Asia in 2017.
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