Charlotte MacDonald
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1,889 appearances
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first heard Sep 2010
last heard Apr 2025
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But whether the jingle itself is true, that's not so easy to say.
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Let's take a look at the first part.
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90% of flights were on time last year.
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Certainly, according to the stats Ryanair puts out itself...
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They've been achieving 90% punctuality across their flights last year and for the last few years.
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But we only have their word for it.
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The Civil Aviation Authority collects data on flights arriving and departing from 10 UK airports.
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Now, a website called flightontime.info crunched that data and worked out that Ryanair is falling some way short of 90%, achieving only 83%.
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And according to these figures, Ryanair's not the most punctual airline operating out of these airports.
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If you look at 2012, BMI Regional and CityJet both did better.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Now, I have asked Ryanair for a breakdown of their figures.
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They wouldn't give them to me.
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But Jim Payton, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Air Transport at Cranfield University, agrees Ryanair's average could be being brought up by other routes.
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Oh, Tim, I just don't know the answer.
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I've gone round in circles with Ryanair's press office.
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It seems that they're comparing their figures to the most recent Association of European Airlines statistics.
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But that organisation hasn't published any new figures since 2009.
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So if they are comparing their 2012 figures with that,
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Well, that's pretty cheeky.
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