Tan Son Nhat among int’l airports with lowest flight cancellations

HCM City-based Tan Son Nhat Airport. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat isamong the international airports with the lowest flight cancellation rates thissummer, at less than 0.3%, according to FlightAware.

The other airports are Suvarnabhumi (Bangkok, Thailand);Manila Ninoy Aquino (Manila, the Philippines); Changi (Singapore); IstanbulSabiha Gökçen (Istanbul, Turkey); São Paulo-Guarulhos (Guarulhos, Brazil);Hamad (Doha, Qatar); and Jeju (the Republic of Korea).

China’s Shenzhen Bao'an led the 10 worst airports forcancellations with its rate reaching 7,9%. It was followed byNewark Liberty (the US, 7,4%); LaGuardia (the US, 7%); Toronto Pearson (Canada,6,5%); Soekarno Hatta (Indonesia, 6,2%); Sydney Kingsford Smith (Australia,5,9%); Guangzhou Baiyun (China, 5,2%); Ronald Reagan Washington (the US, 5%);Chongqing Jiangbei (China, 4,6%); Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (the Netherlands,3,9%).

Canada’s Toronto Pearson topped the worst airport fordelays, with a rate of 52.5%.

FlightAware is the US-based tech firm that providesreal-time, historical and predictive flight tracking data. It compiled datafrom 26,000 destinations across the world to find which international airportshave had the most cancelled flights from May to July, the peak summer travelseason./.

VNA