UK FLIGHT DELAY INDEX

derived from CAA punctuality statistics for UK reporting airports

How often are these flights late or cancelled?

Italia Traspoto Aereo

In the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026, 9.2% of 2,246 movements arriving into the UK were disrupted — more than fifteen minutes late or cancelled at short notice.

Put the other way round, 90.8% of 2,246 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

9.2% of 2,246 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.

DisruptionShort-notice cancellationsDelay among delayed movementsOver three hours
9.2% of 2,246 movements0.4% of 2,246 movements14.2–54.3 minutes; delayed denominator 196–591no events in 2,246 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?

no events in 2,246 movements passed the three-hour mark.

The ladder shows how many movements crossed each threshold. Cancellations are separate: 0.4% of 2,246 movements.

DelayShare and sampleOne event per movements
More than 15 minutes8.7% of 2,246 movements11.5
More than 30 minutes3.4% of 2,246 movements29.2
More than 60 minutes1.0% of 2,246 movements102.1
More than 120 minutes0.4% of 2,246 movements280.8
More than 180 minutesno events in 2,246 movementsNo observed events; this is not zero risk.
More than 360 minutesno events in 2,246 movementsNo observed events; this is not zero risk.
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?

0.4% of 2,246 movements passed two hours.

The histogram shows the published delay bands. Bucket shares use all reported operations, including unmatched records; cancellations are reported separately.

Nine delay buckets, minutes; share of all recorded operations>15 early53824.0%15–1 early1,10749.3%0–15 late39517.6%16–301195.3%31–60552.4%61…120140.6%121…18080.4%181…36000.0%>36000.0%D=2,246
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: Dec 2025, 2.2% of 183 movements. Worst month: Nov 2024, 20.5% of 176 movements.

The line traces every month. Lower disruption is better; gaps are never zeros. Pandemic readings describe a different operating regime.

Monthly disruption share; gaps mean no published dataJan 2018: no data×2018Feb 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×2019Feb 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×2020Feb 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×2021Feb 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×2022Feb 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: no data×2023Feb 2023: no data×Mar 2023: no data×Apr 2023: no data×May 2023: no data×Jun 2023: no data×Jul 2023: no data×Aug 2023: no data×Sep 2023: no data×Oct 2023: no data×Nov 2023: no data×Dec 2023: no data×Jan 2024: no data×2024Feb 2024: no data×Mar 2024: no data×Apr 2024: 16.7%; sample: 168May 2024: no data×Jun 2024: no data×Jul 2024: no data×Aug 2024: no data×Sep 2024: no data×Oct 2024: no data×Nov 2024: 20.5%; sample: 176Dec 2024: 18.7%; sample: 182Jan 2025: 14.3%; sample: 1892025Feb 2025: 8.8%; sample: 171Mar 2025: 2.7%; sample: 182Apr 2025: 4.9%; sample: 185May 2025: 5.9%; sample: 186Jun 2025: 9.9%; sample: 203Jul 2025: 17.3%; sample: 208Aug 2025: 11.2%; sample: 205Sep 2025: 14.4%; sample: 201Oct 2025: 6.7%; sample: 178Nov 2025: 3.6%; sample: 167Dec 2025: 2.2%; sample: 183Jan 2026: 5.9%; sample: 1852026Feb 2026: 8.2%; sample: 170Mar 2026: 11.2%; sample: 188Apr 2026: 6.8%; sample: 192May 2026: 6.3%; sample: 189Jun 2026: 13.9%; sample: 180Pandemic regime Jun 2020Summer 2022 breakdown Jul 2022NATS system failure Aug 2023Heathrow fire closure Mar 2025100%0%
Every monthly observation
MonthDisruption on arrivals
Jan 2018no data
Feb 2018no data
Mar 2018no data
Apr 2018no data
May 2018no data
Jun 2018no data
Jul 2018no data
Aug 2018no data
Sep 2018no data
Oct 2018no data
Nov 2018no data
Dec 2018no data
Jan 2019no data
Feb 2019no data
Mar 2019no data
Apr 2019no data
May 2019no data
Jun 2019no data
Jul 2019no data
Aug 2019no data
Sep 2019no data
Oct 2019no data
Nov 2019no data
Dec 2019no data
Jan 2020no data
Feb 2020no data
Mar 2020no data
Apr 2020no data
May 2020no data
Jun 2020no data
Jul 2020no data
Aug 2020no data
Sep 2020no data
Oct 2020no data
Nov 2020no data
Dec 2020no data
Jan 2021no data
Feb 2021no data
Mar 2021no data
Apr 2021no data
May 2021no data
Jun 2021no data
Jul 2021no data
Aug 2021no data
Sep 2021no data
Oct 2021no data
Nov 2021no data
Dec 2021no data
Jan 2022no data
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Jul 2022no data
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Sep 2022no data
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Dec 2022no data
Jan 2023no data
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Mar 2023no data
Apr 2023no data
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Jul 2023no data
Aug 2023no data
Sep 2023no data
Oct 2023no data
Nov 2023no data
Dec 2023no data
Jan 2024no data
Feb 2024no data
Mar 2024no data
Apr 202416.7% of 168 movements
May 2024no data
Jun 2024no data
Jul 2024no data
Aug 2024no data
Sep 2024no data
Oct 2024no data
Nov 202420.5% of 176 movements
Dec 202418.7% of 182 movements
Jan 202514.3% of 189 movements
Feb 20258.8% of 171 movements
Mar 20252.7% of 182 movements
Apr 20254.9% of 185 movements
May 20255.9% of 186 movements
Jun 20259.9% of 203 movements
Jul 202517.3% of 208 movements
Aug 202511.2% of 205 movements
Sep 202514.4% of 201 movements
Oct 20256.7% of 178 movements
Nov 20253.6% of 167 movements
Dec 20252.2% of 183 movements
Jan 20265.9% of 185 movements
Feb 20268.2% of 170 movements
Mar 202611.2% of 188 movements
Apr 20266.8% of 192 movements
May 20266.3% of 189 movements
Jun 202613.9% of 180 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.

EventDirectionDisruption that monthBaseline beforeReturn to baseline
Pandemic regime · Jun 2020Arrivalsno datano complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
Pandemic regime · Jun 2020Departuresno datano complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022Arrivalsno datano complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022Departuresno datano complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Arrivalsno datano complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Departuresno datano complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Arrivals2.7% of 182 movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Departures15.9% of 182 movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event 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: Jul, 17.3% across 1 months. Lowest median: May, 6.1% across 2 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.

Seasonality: calendar month by year; share and nJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2019no datano datano datano datano datano datano datano datano datano datano datano data2020no datano datano datano datano datano datano datano datano datano datano datano data2021no datano datano datano datano datano datano datano datano datano datano datano data2022no datano datano datano datano datano datano datano datano datano datano datano data2023no datano datano datano datano datano datano datano datano datano datano datano data2024no datano datano data16.7% of 168 movementsno datano datano datano datano datano data20.5% of 176 movements18.7% of 182 movements202514.3% of 189 movements8.8% of 171 movements2.7% of 182 movements4.9% of 185 movements5.9% of 186 movements9.9% of 203 movements17.3% of 208 movements11.2% of 205 movements14.4% of 201 movements6.7% of 178 movements3.6% of 167 movements2.2% of 183 movements20265.9% of 185 movements8.2% of 170 movements11.2% of 188 movements6.8% of 192 movements6.3% of 189 movements13.9% of 180 movementsno datano datano datano datano datano data
Month-by-month table: median, observed range and sample
MonthMedianObserved rangeSample
Jan10.1%5.9–14.3%2 months, 374 flights
Feb8.5%8.2–8.8%2 months, 341 flights
Mar7.0%2.7–11.2%2 months, 370 flights
Apr6.8%4.9–16.7%3 months, 545 flights
May6.1%5.9–6.3%2 months, 375 flights
Jun11.9%9.9–13.9%2 months, 383 flights
Jul17.3%17.3%1 months, 208 flights
Aug11.2%11.2%1 months, 205 flights
Sep14.4%14.4%1 months, 201 flights
Oct6.7%6.7%1 months, 178 flights
Nov12.0%3.6–20.5%2 months, 343 flights
Dec10.4%2.2–18.7%2 months, 365 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: LCY ↔ MILAN-LINATE, 7.5% of 1,519 movements. Highest disruption: LGW ↔ ROME-FIUMICINO, 16.8% of 95 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.

Observed disruption share by optionLcy ↔ Milan-Linate7.5% of 1,519 flightsLcy ↔ Rome-Fiumicino10.4% of 432 flightsLhr ↔ Rome-Fiumicino14.4% of 187 flightsLgw ↔ Rome-Fiumicino16.8% of 95 flights
All route comparisons and sample flags
RouteDisruptionCancellationsSample flag
London City ↔ Milan (Linate)7.5% of 1,519 movements0.5% of 1,519 movementsdescriptive comparison
LCY ↔ ROME-FIUMICINO10.4% of 432 movements0.5% of 432 movementsdescriptive comparison
Heathrow ↔ Rome (Fiumicino)14.4% of 187 movementsno events in 187 movementsdescriptive comparison
Gatwick ↔ Rome (Fiumicino)16.8% of 95 movementsno events in 95 movementsdescriptive comparison
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 airportDisruptionSample flag
London City8.1% of 1,951 movementsdescriptive comparison
Gatwick16.3% of 98 movementsdescriptive comparison
Heathrow14.4% of 188 movementsdescriptive comparison
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

9.2% of 2,246 movements arrivals were disrupted, against 29.0% of 2,246 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

no events in 2,246 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

Italia Traspoto Aereo appears from Apr 2024 to Jun 2026 with 3,888 arrivals.

The bounds describe the published record, not every commercial service. Final point is not necessarily a nonstop destination.

Archive route pairs: 29.

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?

9.2% of 2,246 movements over July 2025 to June 2026.

How often are they cancelled?

0.4% of 2,246 movements at short notice.

How late is late?

14.2–54.3 minutes; delayed denominator 196–591

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 complain
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.