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List of Most Frequently Canceled Flights Throughout 2024

Holiday Ayo - Facing last-minute flight cancellations can be extremely frustrating for travelers, whether they are flying for vacation, returning home, business, or catching up on important events. 

Often times, cancellations are made due to unsafe flight conditions, such as dangerous weather, safety issues, or technical problems with the aircraft. 

 

However, some flight cancellations occur due to weaknesses in the airline, such as staff shortages, scheduling errors, or maintenance delays that could have been managed with better planning.

 

Citing Cirium data, the following are the top 15 airlines with the highest flight cancellation rates and their total number of flights in 2024:

 

1. Dana Air: 33.9% of 2,396 flights

2. Lion Air: 16.7% of 125,550 flights.

3. Wings Air: 16.3% of 62,176 flights

4. Air Austral: 14.9% of 7,628 flights

5 . Chongqing Airlines: 14.8% of 57,868 flights 6. Super Air Jet: 14.7% of 89,453 flights

7. Air Seychelles: 10.1% of 16,069 flights

8. Batik Air: 9.4% of 97,320 flights

9. China Express Airlines: 7.7% of 131,928 flights

10. Winair: 6.3% of 25,802 flights

11. Cape Air: 6.1% of 83,101 flights

12. Kenya Airways: 4.9% of 46,578 flights

13. Ural Airlines: 4.8% of 61,021 flights

14. Shenzhen Airlines: 4.6% of 277,688 flights 15. Air China: 4.1% of 612,920 flights.

 

Dana Air has the highest cancellation rate among airlines tracked by Cirium, largely due to its suspension by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority following a runway incident in April 2024. 

 

As of January 2025, the airline is still not operational pending safety and financial audits.

 

Most of the airlines with the highest cancellation rates are based in the Asia Pacific and Middle East and Africa regions, with only one North American airline (Cape Air) and one European airline (Ural Airlines) among the list. 

 

In 2024, Ural Airlines was added to the European Union's sanctions list for allegedly supporting Russian military operations in Ukraine by transporting military personnel and setting up special ticket sales schemes with the Russian defense ministry. 

 

Additionally, smaller airlines connecting remote areas or islands, such as Air Seychelles, Winair (Caribbean), Air Austral (Réunion Islands and Indian Ocean), and Cape Air (US and Caribbean), often face higher cancellation rates high due to challenges related to weather, infrastructure and operational complexity.

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