Punctuality at UK airports for the first quarter of 2014 has reached its highest levels since records began in 1992.
According to a report from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) 84 per cent of scheduled flight to UK airports landed 'on-time'.
The data shows that between January and March 2014, overall on-time performance was six percentage points higher than the same period in 2014.
The five biggest London airports, Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton and London City, saw an increase from 76 per cent to 84 per cent.
And the five other airports monitored, Manchester, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Glasgow and Newcastle, have seen an overall increase from 81 per cent to 87 per cent of flights on-time.
An ‘on-time’ flight is defined as landing/arriving at its destination either early or up to 15 minutes late.
The average delay across all the monitored scheduled flights was nine minutes, which is a reduction of four minutes when compared to the first quarter of 2013, the study showed.
Destinations with most flights
The busiest 75 scheduled international destinations had between 900 and 13,000 flights to and from the 10 UK airports monitored in the first quarter of 2014.
Of those, Rotterdam recorded the highest on-time performance with 91.7 per cent and Hannover had the lowest average delay of 5.1 minutes.
Flights to and from Dubai achieved the lowest on-time performance with 63.4 per cent and Delhi had the highest average delay of 28.3 minutes.