Travelers are beyond frustrated—and understandably so—after a miserable summer marked by airline delays, cancellations, misplaced luggage, and more recent cancellations due to cold weather.

Even though they are unavoidable (and occasionally required for everyone's safety), delays and cancellations are nonetheless annoying. However, not all airlines have delays on a regular basis, so travellers may be able to avoid some delays by travelling with a different airline.

Tired of Delays? New Data Shows Which Airline Was the Most on-Time in 2022https://t.co/6bGsiePkXU pic.twitter.com/NjswYj9Zlg

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A business that specialises in aviation data and analytics, Cirium, has just published its on-time performance rating for 2022, which places airlines and airports in order of best to worst flight on-time performance. (In this scenario, a flight that lands or takes off before its scheduled gate arrival time by 15 minutes.) 1 The company used more than 600 sources of current flight information to determine its rankings, and an independent board of advisers independently examined its data to ensure its validity.

Air Canada, which Cirium determined to be on time only 54.5 percent of the time, is last on the list for North America (Yikes.)

2 Budget airlines WestJet and Allegiant Air, with on-time percentages of 59.1 and 65.9, respectively, are right above Air Canada. JetBlue ranked unexpectedly low on the list in seventh place, barely arriving on time 66.35 percent of the time, two percentage points behind Frontier Airlines.

Which airline is most punctual? Unsurprisingly, with an on-time percentage of 83.63 percent, Delta Air Lines reclaimed the top position for the fifth consecutive year. United and Alaska Airlines came in second and third, both scoring 80.46 percent, while American and Southwest came in fourth and fifth, scoring 78.29 and 74.06 percent, respectively.

With an on-time percentage of 88 percent, Azul Brazilian Airlines, All Nippon Airways, and Japan Airlines won the top three positions globally. The Chilean airline LATAM, which placed fifth globally and was three percent behind Delta, had an occupancy rate of 86.31 percent.

The Cirium Platinum Award, which is given to an airline that exhibits global operational excellence in areas including on-time performance, operational complexity, and the frequency of flight delays, was also given to Delta by Cirium.

According to a Delta news release, John Laughter, EVP and chief of operations, "the care and devotion of Delta workers across our diversified, global organisation helped secure this designation again as the industry leader."

 "During a difficult year of rebuilding, we ran the most on-time airline and implemented improvements that will help us to rise even higher this year."