Lufthansa Airline, the flag carrier of Germany, has the highest share of cancelled flights for the summer of 2022, with 3.69% of their total flights having been cancelled throughout this period.

A new analysis of the European airlines affected by last-minute cancellations this past summer by Mabrian Technologies, a leading company in data analytics for tourism and Tourist Intelligence, has listed the top ten airlines in Europe that have cancelled the highest share of their flights during the summer months, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.

According to the analysis, taking into account the top ten European airlines most affected by cancellations between July 17, 2022, and August 30, 2022, almost 9,000 cancelled flights are recorded, which means that on average two out of every a hundred flights scheduled by these ten airlines were cancelled in Europe.

“Lufthansa, one of the companies most affected by staff restrictions and strikes, tops the list of airlines with the highest number of cancellations with a total of 2,521 scheduled flights that were cancelled at the last minute in Europe,” a press release on the analysis reads.

Next on the list comes Denmark’s Scandinavian Airlines (SAS), and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines with 812 and with 628 cancelled flights respectively.

The full list goes as below:

1. Lufthansa Airlines – 3.69%, or 2,521 cancelled
2. Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) – 3.4%, or 812 cancelled flights
3. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines – 2.64%, or 628 cancelled flights
4. Germany’s Eurowings – 2.47%, or 835 cancelled flights
5. Tap Air Portugal – 2.01%, or 379 cancelled flights
6. British Airways – 1.79%, or 755 cancelled flights
7. Hungary’s Wizz Air – 1.61%, or 591 cancelled flights
8. United Kingdom’s Easy Jet – 1.34%, or 1482 cancelled flights
9. Air France – 1.23%, or 561 cancelled flights
10. Spain’s Vueling – 0.84%, or 417 cancelled flights

In spite of all the noise around its cancelled flights last summer, Ryanair had only cancelled 0.5% of its flights, thus ranking in the 14^th position.

Commenting on the report, Mabrian’s business development manager, Anna Borduzha, said that flight cancellation is one of the top reasons for traveller dissatisfaction during summer 2023, urging companies and tourist destinations to work on 2022 data and 2023 forecasts, in order to avoid such situations.

“Tourism Big Data analytics and Tourism Intelligence can be a key to improving forecasts and strategic planning,” she said.

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, many airlines and airports laid off their staff in 2020, which turned out to be a real problem for them after air travel started reviving due to the mass vaccination of the world population.

The remaining staff has had it difficult to deal with the high volumes of travellers this summer, often going on strikes, causing tens of flights to be cancelled per day.

Source: schengenvisainfo.com