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How many years passengers have spent waiting for planes to be delayed due to 2025 has been revealed, and it’s Ryanair According to a new report, the percentage of flights arriving late was the largest ever.
After analyzing data from more than 22 million journeys by air globally, flight-tracking app Flyty found that 29 per cent of Irish low-cost carriers’ services were delayed this year.
Delayed-flight percentages were similar easyjet (number 2) and air france (No. 3), but because Ryanair is a larger airline by passenger numbers, it was responsible for more hours of delay.
The fourth most delayed airline was the American ultra-low-cost carrier marginal28 per cent of flights were delayed, followed by Lufthansa at fifth place (26 per cent) and Qantas at sixth place (26 per cent).
Rounding out the top 10 were KLM (No. 7/25 percent), Air Canada (No. 8/25 percent), JetBlue (No. 9/25 percent) and Southwest Airlines (No. 10/25 percent).
American airlines were the fourth and fifth most delayed American Airlines (24 percent) and alaska airlines (23 percent), the agency found.
In its report, Flyty also looked at the difference between a flight’s scheduled arrival and when passengers actually disembarked, which revealed how much time passengers spent waiting for their plane to reach the gate after reaching the airspace above the airport or after touching down.
It claimed that holding patterns, crew or equipment delays, taxiway congestion, runway queues and weather restrictions increased travel time by 30 per cent of all flights.
That’s a collective wait time of 1.4 million hours, or 161 years, Flighty said.
Flyte said in a statement: “[This metric] Captures all those extra minutes spent sitting, waiting, and muttering, ‘Get me off this plane.'”
Research has shown that flight delays not only waste time, but also have a financial impact.
Air traffic control delays alone could cost passengers and airlines in Europe about $6.8 billion between the end of 2024 and October 2025, according to the International Air Transport Association and Eurocontrol.