Moscow Sheremetyevo Named the Most Punctual Airport in Europe

• Sheremetyevo is among the Top 5 airport hubs in Europe.
• Sheremetyevo is the largest Russian airport in terms of passenger and cargo traffic.
• In 2020, Sheremetyevo served 19 million 784 thousand passengers.

Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport was recognized as the most punctual airport in Europe and the second most punctual in the world in the Global Airports category.

Thanks to effective cooperation between the airport, airlines and air-traffic control agencies, the Sheremetyevo aerodrome has maintained high capacity and ensured a high level of punctuality of flights. Sheremetyevo was the first airport in Russia to develop and implement a system of joint decision-making with airlines, using its own innovative Synchron database.

The most punctual air carriers at Sheremetyevo in May and June 2021, based on landings, departures from the parking area and takeoffs, were:

• Russian airlines:

1. Aeroflot
2. Russia
3. Severstal

• European airlines with more than 200 passenger flights:

1. Air France
2. KLM
3. Air Serbia

• European airlines with less than 200 passenger flights:

1. Finnair
2. LOT
3. Belavia

• Asia-Pacific Airlines:

1. Japan Airlines
2. Korean Air
3. Air India

• Airlines with more than 500 cargo flights:

1. Aviastar
2. Aeroflot
3. AirBridgeCargo

• Airlines with fewer than 500 cargo flights:

1. Air China
2. Emirates
3. CargoLogic Germany