Beijing Capital International Airport leads other domestic airports in flight punctuality, although punctuality is generally a big problem for airlines on the Chinese mainland.

 

According to domestic air travel information service VeryZhun's report, airplanes taking off from Beijing were 73 minutes late on average in 2014, the shortest among cities in the Chinese mainland.

 

In 2014, passengers and crew members spent a total of 122 million minutes, or 232 years, waiting for their aircrafts, and the total delay time at China's airports reached 96.3 million minutes, or around 183 years.

 

According to VeryZhun, Chinese airports have an average on-time rate of 65.44 percent in 2014. The rate shot to 72.71 percent in March, the monthly record, and fell back to less than 60 percent in July and August, the worst months because of stormy weather.

 

Among the three domestic air traffic hubs Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, Shanghai Pudong International Airport performed worst in 2014, with an on-time rate of less than 30 percent in July and an average delay of 113 minutes.

 

Having a smaller number of airlines doesn't translate into a higher punctuality rate, the report showed. The average delay at Tianjin and Shijiazhuang airports is about 20 minutes longer than the nearby Beijing airport, though the number of planes taking off from the capital is much larger than that of either airport. 

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