Fear-the record for 2018: Worst year ever for flight delays

Button to 200,000 airline passengers experienced last year those entitled disruption on their travel, which is an increase of more than 38 percent compared to the year before, when there were 142,000 digital affected passengers.

It means that 2018 has taken the fear-the record for traveling, as it hereby it was so far the worst year ever when it comes to flight delays and other those entitled disturbances.

It shows an analysis, as flykompensationsselskabet AirHelp has made.

the Analysis shows, moreover, that the so-called ’on-time performance of all airports in Denmark was only 77 percent last year, while it was 82 percent in 2017.

One of the reasons for the many flight delays has been the highly publicized strike at Ryanair's staff in the summer, forcing the budget airline to cancel more than 100,000 passengers ' tickets.

another reason for the many flight delays in 2018 is the large increase in the number of air passengers in 2018, which has put airports under pressure due to lack of capacity, says Henrik Zilmer, who is the founder of AirHelp:

- 2018 has been a year which has pushed the aviation industry to the maximum. This proves once again that there is much work to do, and there is a long way to the airlines priority passenger-legislation.

Figures from the past three years: (Departures from Denmark)

2016: 1.500

2017: 1.400

2018: 1.800

2016: 159.000

2017: 142,000 digital

2018: 196.800

2016: 81%

2017: 82%

2018: 77%

Source: AirHelp