Originally Posted by
warrens
No. Not true. The
average OTP of the
entire airline is mostly a useless metric except as an Internet forum and media talking point. You might as well be talking about the average price of everything at a grocery store, or the average price of "a car".
Every route has its own unique OTP environment. Since Seoul is a topic, it's worth noting that ICN has poor overall OTP. Like.... we're talking in the 50-60% range.... Air Canada's two daily flights in and out of there get caught up in this. At this very moment, for example, Incheon is reporting a 40 minute delay for all arriving planes
This shows up as a black mark on AC's reputation, not Incheon's, but there's literally nothing AC can do about it.
Meanwhile, Air Canada's afternoon flight from Montreal to Boston is pushing 90% OTP, with only one flight in the last two months arriving more than 30 mins late.
Neither of these things have anything to do with eachother beyond the 014 on the ticket.
OTP is not meaningless if the airline doesn’t plan for it. If ICN is perenially delayed then it’s up to the operating carrier to account for that in the scheduling and the sale of connecting flights. The point is precisely that, if you know ICN is regularly delayed, plan around that delay; don’t assume everything will be on time when historical data show this assumption is flawed.