The Best and Worst Airlines and Airports of 2018

The 10 Best Airlines of 2018

A Qatar Airways jet gets hosed down in Chicago. Photographer: Jeff Schear/Getty Images North America

• 1. Qatar Airways (89 percent on-time performance)
• 2. Lufthansa (76 percent)
• 3. Etihad Airways (86 percent)
• 4. Singapore Airlines (85 percent)
• 5. South African Airways (85 percent)
• 6. Austrian Airlines (80 percent)
• 7. Aegean Airlines (90 percent)
• 8. Qantas (89 percent)
• 9. Air Malta (86 percent)
• 10. Virgin Atlantic (82 percent )

The Worst Airlines of 2018

Despite its name, WOW is not impressing the statisticians at AirHelp. Photographer: Yuriko Nakao/Getty Images Europe

• 63. Jet Airways (65 percent on-time performance)
• 64. Aerolineas Argentinas (85 percent)
• 65. Iberia (84 percent)
• 66. Korean Air (64 percent)
• 67. Ryanair (86 percent)
• 68. Air Mauritius (69 percent)
• 69. EasyJet (79 percent)
• 70. Pakistan International Airlines (61 percent)
• 71. Royal Jordanian Airlines (83 percent)
• 72. WOW Air (75 percent)

The 10 Best Airports of 2018

Hamad International Airport, in Doha, ranks as this year’s top airport. Photographer: Veronica Garbutt/Lonely Planet Images

• 1. Hamad International Airport, Doha (DOH)
• 2. Athens International Airport, Athens (ATH)
• 3. Tokyo Haneda International Airport, Tokyo (HND)
• 4. Cologne Bonn Airport, Cologne, Germany (CGN)
• 5. Singapore Changi Airport, Singapore (SIN)
• 6. Nagoya Chubu Centrair Airport, Nagoya, Japan (NGO)
• 7. Viracopos International Airport, Campinas, Brazil (VCP)
• 8. Amman Queen Alia Airport, Amman, Jordan (AMM)
• 9. Guararapes-Gilberto Freyre International Airport, Recife, Brazil (REC)
• 10. Quito International Airport, Quito, Ecuador (UIO)

The Worst Airports of 2018

The worst airport of 2018: Kuwait International. Photographer: JD Dallet/arabianEye

• 132. Eindhoven Airport, Eindhoven, Netherlands (EIN)
• 133. Bordeaux Merignac, Bordeaux, France (BOD)
• 134. Edinburgh Airport, Edinburgh (EDI)
• 135. Boryspil International Airport, Kiev, Ukraine (KBP)
• 136. Manchester Airport, Manchester, United Kingdom (MAN)
• 137. Stockholm Bromma Airport, Stockholm (BMA)
• 138. Paris Orly, Paris (ORY)
• 139. Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport, Lyon, France (LYS)
• 140. London Stansted Airport, London (STN)
• 141. Kuwait International Airport, Farwaniya, Kuwait (KWI)

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