Carriers begin to cancel departures in an effort to restore schedule reliability

The Asian carrier ONE told this morning that The Alliance would cancel three sailings on the FE2 and FE3 service departing Asia at the end of May and beginning of June. The reason for the cancellation was “due to the unfortunate schedule delays”.

The FE2 sailing from Pusan on 30 May has been cancelled, as well as the FE3 departure from Hong Kong also on 30 May and the one on 13 June FE3. There are currently 115 sailings Asia-Europe service scheduled for May with five sailings blanked. In June there are 111 sailings scheduled, but only one to be blanked.

There are also a lot of sailings that arrive late. The eeSea’s schedule reliability tracker found that just 10% of Asia-Europe sailings in January arrived on time. Yet, we see there are some improvements. In February it was 13% and in March it was 41%.