Meanings of improve punctuality in English

Disbelief and outrage greeted the news from Ryanair that it had cancelled the flights deliberately to improve punctuality and allocate leave to staff.

Dismissing it as an effort to improve punctuality -the airline's starting position -will, needless to say, not feature among the suggested approaches.

The budget airline says the measure is designed to improve punctuality, which has fallen below 80% in the first two weeks of September.