How often are these flights late or cancelled?
BA Euroflyer Ltd Dba British Airways
In the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026, 31.9% of 13,993 movements arriving into the UK were disrupted — more than fifteen minutes late or cancelled at short notice.
Put the other way round, 68.1% of 13,993 movements met the fifteen-minute convention. These are historical observations, not a forecast.
Definitions, denominators and limits
Arrivals into UK reporting airports only unless labelled departures. Denominator: operated movements plus short-notice cancellations (M+C). A movement is not a scheduled flight. Unmatched records are data quality, not outcomes. Cells below twenty movements are suppressed; twenty to forty-nine are descriptive and not ranked.
Source: CAA punctuality statistics · snapshot 17/08/2026 10:24 · method route-record-v2.1 · Versioned claims, formulas and entity mapping.
0 operations (0.00%) excluded because their published percentages could not be reconciled to whole numbers. Excluded operations enter neither the numerator nor the denominator. Outcome figures and comparisons are unavailable when the excluded share exceeds fifteen percent.
The four numbers at a glance
31.9% of 13,993 movements were disrupted over July 2025 to June 2026.
Average delay covers delayed movements only. Its range reflects rounded source means and the unknown count of exactly punctual movements.
| Disruption | Short-notice cancellations | Delay among delayed movements | Over three hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31.9% of 13,993 movements | 0.1% of 13,993 movements | 37.1–65.4 minutes; delayed denominator 4,458–7,485 | 1.1% of 13,993 movements |
Definitions, denominators and limits
Arrivals into UK reporting airports only unless labelled departures. Denominator: operated movements plus short-notice cancellations (M+C). A movement is not a scheduled flight. Unmatched records are data quality, not outcomes. Cells below twenty movements are suppressed; twenty to forty-nine are descriptive and not ranked.
When late, how late?
1.1% of 13,993 movements passed the three-hour mark.
The ladder shows how many movements crossed each threshold. Cancellations are separate: 0.1% of 13,993 movements.
| Delay | Share and sample | One event per movements |
|---|---|---|
| More than 15 minutes | 31.9% of 13,993 movements | 3.1 |
| More than 30 minutes | 20.2% of 13,993 movements | 5.0 |
| More than 60 minutes | 9.3% of 13,993 movements | 10.7 |
| More than 120 minutes | 2.8% of 13,993 movements | 35.9 |
| More than 180 minutes | 1.1% of 13,993 movements | 89.1 |
| More than 360 minutes | 0.2% of 13,993 movements | 538.2 |
Definitions, denominators and limits
Arrivals into UK reporting airports only unless labelled departures. Denominator: operated movements plus short-notice cancellations (M+C). A movement is not a scheduled flight. Unmatched records are data quality, not outcomes. Cells below twenty movements are suppressed; twenty to forty-nine are descriptive and not ranked.
Slightly late or occasionally a disaster?
2.8% of 13,993 movements passed two hours.
The histogram shows the published delay bands. Bucket shares use all reported operations, including unmatched records; cancellations are reported separately.
Definitions, denominators and limits
Arrivals into UK reporting airports only unless labelled departures. Denominator: operated movements plus short-notice cancellations (M+C). A movement is not a scheduled flight. Unmatched records are data quality, not outcomes. Cells below twenty movements are suppressed; twenty to forty-nine are descriptive and not ranked.
Better or worse since the start of the archive?
Best month: Nov 2025, 13.1% of 875 movements. Worst month: Jul 2023, 69.1% of 868 movements.
The line traces every month. Lower disruption is better; gaps are never zeros. Pandemic readings describe a different operating regime.
Every monthly observation
| Month | Disruption on arrivals |
|---|---|
| Jan 2018 | no data |
| Feb 2018 | no data |
| Mar 2018 | no data |
| Apr 2018 | no data |
| May 2018 | no data |
| Jun 2018 | no data |
| Jul 2018 | no data |
| Aug 2018 | no data |
| Sep 2018 | no data |
| Oct 2018 | no data |
| Nov 2018 | no data |
| Dec 2018 | no data |
| Jan 2019 | no data |
| Feb 2019 | no data |
| Mar 2019 | no data |
| Apr 2019 | no data |
| May 2019 | no data |
| Jun 2019 | no data |
| Jul 2019 | no data |
| Aug 2019 | no data |
| Sep 2019 | no data |
| Oct 2019 | no data |
| Nov 2019 | no data |
| Dec 2019 | no data |
| Jan 2020 | no data |
| Feb 2020 | no data |
| Mar 2020 | no data |
| Apr 2020 | no data |
| May 2020 | no data |
| Jun 2020 | no data |
| Jul 2020 | no data |
| Aug 2020 | no data |
| Sep 2020 | no data |
| Oct 2020 | no data |
| Nov 2020 | no data |
| Dec 2020 | no data |
| Jan 2021 | no data |
| Feb 2021 | no data |
| Mar 2021 | no data |
| Apr 2021 | no data |
| May 2021 | no data |
| Jun 2021 | no data |
| Jul 2021 | no data |
| Aug 2021 | no data |
| Sep 2021 | no data |
| Oct 2021 | no data |
| Nov 2021 | no data |
| Dec 2021 | no data |
| Jan 2022 | no data |
| Feb 2022 | no data |
| Mar 2022 | no data |
| Apr 2022 | no data |
| May 2022 | no data |
| Jun 2022 | no data |
| Jul 2022 | no data |
| Aug 2022 | no data |
| Sep 2022 | no data |
| Oct 2022 | no data |
| Nov 2022 | no data |
| Dec 2022 | no data |
| Jan 2023 | 25.0% of 20 movements — small sample, not ranked |
| Feb 2023 | no data |
| Mar 2023 | 45.2% of 416 movements |
| Apr 2023 | 40.8% of 617 movements |
| May 2023 | 48.6% of 661 movements |
| Jun 2023 | 62.4% of 1,027 movements |
| Jul 2023 | 69.1% of 868 movements |
| Aug 2023 | 64.4% of 1,071 movements |
| Sep 2023 | 63.9% of 1,073 movements |
| Oct 2023 | 45.8% of 910 movements |
| Nov 2023 | 27.3% of 710 movements |
| Dec 2023 | 43.4% of 762 movements |
| Jan 2024 | 25.3% of 776 movements |
| Feb 2024 | 26.1% of 856 movements |
| Mar 2024 | 29.6% of 923 movements |
| Apr 2024 | 18.7% of 981 movements |
| May 2024 | 28.9% of 1,109 movements |
| Jun 2024 | 48.6% of 1,145 movements |
| Jul 2024 | 59.7% of 1,168 movements |
| Aug 2024 | 50.1% of 1,164 movements |
| Sep 2024 | 64.5% of 1,179 movements |
| Oct 2024 | 37.8% of 1,173 movements |
| Nov 2024 | 23.0% of 813 movements |
| Dec 2024 | 37.0% of 890 movements |
| Jan 2025 | 28.2% of 876 movements |
| Feb 2025 | 27.3% of 913 movements |
| Mar 2025 | 26.8% of 1,058 movements |
| Apr 2025 | 22.6% of 1,106 movements |
| May 2025 | 28.0% of 1,327 movements |
| Jun 2025 | 43.0% of 1,273 movements |
| Jul 2025 | 52.5% of 1,411 movements |
| Aug 2025 | 41.3% of 1,420 movements |
| Sep 2025 | 47.3% of 1,373 movements |
| Oct 2025 | 27.5% of 1,249 movements |
| Nov 2025 | 13.1% of 875 movements |
| Dec 2025 | 22.9% of 933 movements |
| Jan 2026 | 25.4% of 946 movements |
| Feb 2026 | 22.0% of 936 movements |
| Mar 2026 | 24.5% of 1,104 movements |
| Apr 2026 | 19.9% of 1,099 movements |
| May 2026 | 23.8% of 1,295 movements |
| Jun 2026 | 42.6% of 1,352 movements |
Definitions, denominators and limits
Arrivals into UK reporting airports only unless labelled departures. Denominator: operated movements plus short-notice cancellations (M+C). A movement is not a scheduled flight. Unmatched records are data quality, not outcomes. Cells below twenty movements are suppressed; twenty to forty-nine are descriptive and not ranked.
What did the big disruptions do here?
Each event is compared with the twelve preceding calendar months and the first later return to baseline.
A worse month is not proof the named event caused it. The open data carry no delay-cause field. Recovery is observed for at most eight subsequent months.
| Event | Direction | Disruption that month | Baseline before | Return to baseline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pandemic regime · Jun 2020 | Arrivals | no data | no complete baseline | not enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month |
| Pandemic regime · Jun 2020 | Departures | no data | no complete baseline | not enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month |
| Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022 | Arrivals | no data | no complete baseline | not enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month |
| Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022 | Departures | no data | no complete baseline | not enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month |
| NATS system failure · Aug 2023 | Arrivals | 64.4% of 1,071 movements | no complete baseline | not enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month |
| NATS system failure · Aug 2023 | Departures | 64.2% of 1,074 movements | no complete baseline | not enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month |
| Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025 | Arrivals | 26.8% of 1,058 movements | 37.8% across 12,334 flights | returned the next month |
| Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025 | Departures | 30.1% of 1,059 movements | 39.5% across 12,373 flights | returned the next month |
Definitions, denominators and limits
Arrivals into UK reporting airports only unless labelled departures. Denominator: operated movements plus short-notice cancellations (M+C). A movement is not a scheduled flight. Unmatched records are data quality, not outcomes. Cells below twenty movements are suppressed; twenty to forty-nine are descriptive and not ranked.
Which time of year has been hardest?
Highest median: Sep, 63.9% across 3 months. Lowest median: Apr, 21.3% across 4 months.
Even the same calendar month differs across years. This is a record, not a forecast; pandemic years are excluded from the summaries.
Each cell is one calendar month of one year; the number is the share of that month’s arrivals that were disrupted. Darker means worse. A blank cell means no published data, not zero.
Month-by-month table: median, observed range and sample
| Month | Median | Observed range | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 25.3% | 25.0–28.2% | 4 months, 2,618 flights |
| Feb | 26.1% | 22.0–27.3% | 3 months, 2,705 flights |
| Mar | 28.2% | 24.5–45.2% | 4 months, 3,501 flights |
| Apr | 21.3% | 18.7–40.8% | 4 months, 3,803 flights |
| May | 28.5% | 23.8–48.6% | 4 months, 4,392 flights |
| Jun | 45.8% | 42.6–62.4% | 4 months, 4,797 flights |
| Jul | 59.7% | 52.5–69.1% | 3 months, 3,447 flights |
| Aug | 50.1% | 41.3–64.4% | 3 months, 3,655 flights |
| Sep | 63.9% | 47.3–64.5% | 3 months, 3,625 flights |
| Oct | 37.8% | 27.5–45.8% | 3 months, 3,332 flights |
| Nov | 23.0% | 13.1–27.3% | 3 months, 2,398 flights |
| Dec | 37.0% | 22.9–43.4% | 3 months, 2,585 flights |
Definitions, denominators and limits
Arrivals into UK reporting airports only unless labelled departures. Denominator: operated movements plus short-notice cancellations (M+C). A movement is not a scheduled flight. Unmatched records are data quality, not outcomes. Cells below twenty movements are suppressed; twenty to forty-nine are descriptive and not ranked.
Which routes have the best and worst record?
Lowest disruption: LGW ↔ GRAZ, 9.8% of 92 movements. Highest disruption: LGW ↔ NICE, 55.0% of 298 movements.
The airline table uses this carrier on each route; airport and country tables combine carriers. Each figure is arrivals into its UK airport. Only sufficiently large exact samples enter the ordered comparison.
All route comparisons and sample flags
| Route | Disruption | Cancellations | Sample flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| LGW ↔ GRAZ | 9.8% of 92 movements | no events in 92 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Jersey | 12.2% of 674 movements | 0.1% of 674 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Fuerteventura | 13.3% of 60 movements | no events in 60 movements | descriptive comparison |
| LGW ↔ RABAT | 13.6% of 66 movements | no events in 66 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Jersey ↔ Gatwick | 15.3% of 634 movements | 1.3% of 634 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Funchal | 16.5% of 405 movements | no events in 405 movements | descriptive comparison |
| LGW ↔ AGADIR-AL-MASSIRA | 19.8% of 131 movements | no events in 131 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Marrakesh | 20.5% of 557 movements | no events in 557 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Salzburg | 21.5% of 331 movements | no events in 331 movements | descriptive comparison |
| LGW ↔ GRENOBLE | 21.9% of 96 movements | no events in 96 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Lyon | 23.0% of 61 movements | no events in 61 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Sharm El Sheikh (Ophira) | 23.3% of 90 movements | no events in 90 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Faro | 24.5% of 681 movements | no events in 681 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Bordeaux | 25.5% of 376 movements | no events in 376 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Antalya | 25.6% of 164 movements | no events in 164 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Geneva | 26.3% of 346 movements | no events in 346 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Tenerife (Surreina Sofia) | 26.3% of 494 movements | no events in 494 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Verona Villafranca | 28.8% of 410 movements | no events in 410 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Paphos | 29.2% of 219 movements | no events in 219 movements | descriptive comparison |
| LGW ↔ INNSBRUCK | 29.4% of 163 movements | no events in 163 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Larnaca | 30.1% of 302 movements | no events in 302 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Salonika | 30.7% of 215 movements | no events in 215 movements | descriptive comparison |
| LGW ↔ SALERNO-COSTA-AMALFI | 32.0% of 50 movements | no events in 50 movements | descriptive comparison |
| LGW ↔ MONTPELLIER | 32.9% of 70 movements | no events in 70 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Las Palmas | 33.5% of 284 movements | no events in 284 movements | descriptive comparison |
| LGW ↔ BARI-PALESE | 33.8% of 284 movements | no events in 284 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Oporto (Portugal) | 34.5% of 414 movements | no events in 414 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Dubrovnik | 34.8% of 247 movements | no events in 247 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Ibiza | 35.4% of 347 movements | no events in 347 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Catania (Fontanarossa) | 36.8% of 258 movements | no events in 258 movements | descriptive comparison |
| LGW ↔ ALGIERS | 36.9% of 328 movements | no events in 328 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Rhodes | 37.7% of 191 movements | no events in 191 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Alicante | 37.8% of 410 movements | no events in 410 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Turin | 38.5% of 353 movements | no events in 353 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Malaga | 38.5% of 864 movements | no events in 864 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Arrecife | 41.4% of 350 movements | no events in 350 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Palma De Mallorca | 41.7% of 403 movements | no events in 403 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Corfu | 41.9% of 215 movements | 0.5% of 215 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Seville | 44.2% of 328 movements | no events in 328 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Dalaman | 45.6% of 160 movements | no events in 160 movements | descriptive comparison |
| LGW ↔ CAGLIARI-ELMAS | 46.7% of 195 movements | no events in 195 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Malta | 46.8% of 566 movements | no events in 566 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Heraklion | 48.1% of 295 movements | no events in 295 movements | descriptive comparison |
| LGW ↔ KOS | 48.2% of 164 movements | no events in 164 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Mahon | 50.0% of 150 movements | no events in 150 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Nice | 55.0% of 298 movements | no events in 298 movements | descriptive comparison |
| LGW ↔ IVALO | 32.4% of 34 movements — small sample, not ranked | no events in 34 movements — small sample, not ranked | small sample; not ranked |
| LGW ↔ KALAMATA | 36.4% of 44 movements — small sample, not ranked | no events in 44 movements — small sample, not ranked | small sample; not ranked |
| LGW ↔ PREVEZA | 51.9% of 27 movements — small sample, not ranked | no events in 27 movements — small sample, not ranked | small sample; not ranked |
Definitions, denominators and limits
Arrivals into UK reporting airports only unless labelled departures. Denominator: operated movements plus short-notice cancellations (M+C). A movement is not a scheduled flight. Unmatched records are data quality, not outcomes. Cells below twenty movements are suppressed; twenty to forty-nine are descriptive and not ranked.
Which UK airports appear in this record?
3 published groups have enough arrivals to describe.
These operations are not matched for season, aircraft or time of day. The table makes no causal comparison.
| UK airport | Disruption | Sample flag |
|---|---|---|
| Jersey | 15.3% of 634 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick | 32.8% of 13,321 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Heathrow | 21.9% of 32 movements — small sample, not ranked | small sample; not ranked |
Definitions, denominators and limits
Arrivals into UK reporting airports only unless labelled departures. Denominator: operated movements plus short-notice cancellations (M+C). A movement is not a scheduled flight. Unmatched records are data quality, not outcomes. Cells below twenty movements are suppressed; twenty to forty-nine are descriptive and not ranked.
Arrivals vs departures
31.9% of 13,993 movements arrivals were disrupted, against 32.1% of 14,022 movements departures.
The directions have separate denominators. A departure delay does not establish late arrival at the final destination; legal conditions differ by direction and carrier.
Definitions, denominators and limits
Arrivals into UK reporting airports only unless labelled departures. Denominator: operated movements plus short-notice cancellations (M+C). A movement is not a scheduled flight. Unmatched records are data quality, not outcomes. Cells below twenty movements are suppressed; twenty to forty-nine are descriptive and not ranked.
Movements past the three-hour mark
1.1% of 13,993 movements were more than three hours late over July 2025 to June 2026.
Cancellation is counted separately and is not a three-hour delay. Monthly counts cannot establish a passenger claim.
Definitions, denominators and limits
Arrivals into UK reporting airports only unless labelled departures. Denominator: operated movements plus short-notice cancellations (M+C). A movement is not a scheduled flight. Unmatched records are data quality, not outcomes. Cells below twenty movements are suppressed; twenty to forty-nine are descriptive and not ranked.
Facts about this record
BA Euroflyer Ltd Dba British Airways appears from Jan 2023 to Jun 2026 with 40,858 arrivals.
The bounds describe the published record, not every commercial service. Final point is not necessarily a nonstop destination.
Archive route pairs: 112.
Definitions, denominators and limits
Arrivals into UK reporting airports only unless labelled departures. Denominator: operated movements plus short-notice cancellations (M+C). A movement is not a scheduled flight. Unmatched records are data quality, not outcomes. Cells below twenty movements are suppressed; twenty to forty-nine are descriptive and not ranked.
What this data cannot tell you
Delay cause, individual passenger experience, commercial decisions and future performance are not established here.
Also absent are aircraft type, within-month time-of-day splits and cancellations made ahead of the short-notice reporting window.
0 operations (0.00%) excluded because their published percentages could not be reconciled to whole numbers. Excluded operations enter neither the numerator nor the denominator. Outcome figures and comparisons are unavailable when the excluded share exceeds fifteen percent.
Definitions, denominators and limits
Arrivals into UK reporting airports only unless labelled departures. Denominator: operated movements plus short-notice cancellations (M+C). A movement is not a scheduled flight. Unmatched records are data quality, not outcomes. Cells below twenty movements are suppressed; twenty to forty-nine are descriptive and not ranked.
Quick answers
These answers use the same populations and window as the tables above.
Every percentage retains its denominator.
How disrupted are these arrivals?
31.9% of 13,993 movements over July 2025 to June 2026.
How often are they cancelled?
0.1% of 13,993 movements at short notice.
How late is late?
37.1–65.4 minutes; delayed denominator 4,458–7,485
Are services improving?
The monthly line records past changes; it is not a forecast or a causal comparison.
Which routes are compared?
The route table uses separately identified UK airport and final-point pairs, with small samples flagged.
Does this cover my flight?
Only published aggregate movements; the circumstances of any individual flight are unknown.
Definitions, denominators and limits
Arrivals into UK reporting airports only unless labelled departures. Denominator: operated movements plus short-notice cancellations (M+C). A movement is not a scheduled flight. Unmatched records are data quality, not outcomes. Cells below twenty movements are suppressed; twenty to forty-nine are descriptive and not ranked.
How this was calculated
Source: CAA punctuality statistics · snapshot 17/08/2026 10:24 · method route-record-v2.1 · Versioned claims, formulas and entity mapping.
Integer bucket counts are recovered from rounding intervals over D=M+C+U with their sum constrained to M. Ambiguous counts remain ranges; failed reconciliation is quarantined.
Definitions, denominators and limits
Arrivals into UK reporting airports only unless labelled departures. Denominator: operated movements plus short-notice cancellations (M+C). A movement is not a scheduled flight. Unmatched records are data quality, not outcomes. Cells below twenty movements are suppressed; twenty to forty-nine are descriptive and not ranked.
Your trip has already gone wrong
The monthly line and events table show whether your month was typical or unusual in the published record.
Nothing here decides an individual case or what a passenger may be owed.
CAA: the official route to complainDefinitions, denominators and limits
Arrivals into UK reporting airports only unless labelled departures. Denominator: operated movements plus short-notice cancellations (M+C). A movement is not a scheduled flight. Unmatched records are data quality, not outcomes. Cells below twenty movements are suppressed; twenty to forty-nine are descriptive and not ranked.