Qatar Airways wins Cirium Airline Platinum Award for operational excellence in 2025

Doha: Qatar Airways has won the Airline Platinum Award for demonstrating operational excellence in 2025, according to the latest On Time Performance R...

Doha: Qatar Airways has won the Airline Platinum Award for demonstrating operational excellence in 2025, according to the latest On-Time Performance Review by aviation analytics firm Cirium.

The analysis highlighted the Doha-based carrier’s performance across its global network, achieving an 84.42% on-time performance rate across more than 198,303 flights spanning six continents, up from 82.83% in 2024.

It further underlined the airline’s ability to protect key connection flows and use operational data to retime and reroute services during irregular operations that occurred in 2025, including airspace constraints from geopolitical issues, weather disruptions, and aircraft availability challenges.

"Qatar Airways’ Platinum win is particularly significant because it demonstrates how a network carrier can maintain on-time performance across six continents while operating one of the industry’s most complex hub structures," stated Jeremy Bowen, Cirium CEO.

"Maintaining consistent on-time performance requires sophisticated network planning, operational coordination, and the ability to recover quickly when irregularities occur. These results reflect the operational discipline that defines aviation’s top performers,” Bowen said.