Chinese flights run more on time than a decade ago. The peak came in the pandemic years, when traffic had collapsed, and the chart cannot separate lighter traffic from better operations.
What this shows: The chart covers 2015 to 2024 and plots On-time regularity, all airlines (%). The latest value is 87.1 percent.
Conditions and method
Regularity peaks at 95.0% in 2022, inside the COVID collapse in traffic, against 81.7% in 2019 and 87.1% in 2024. The chart cannot separate lighter traffic from better operations, so the rise is not evidence of an operational improvement.