UK FLIGHT DELAY INDEX

derived from CAA punctuality statistics for UK reporting airports

How often are these flights late or cancelled?

Jetblue Airways Corporation

In the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026, 21.8% of 1,626 movements arriving into the UK were disrupted — more than fifteen minutes late or cancelled at short notice.

Put the other way round, 78.2% of 1,626 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

21.8% of 1,626 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
21.8% of 1,626 movements1.0% of 1,626 movements26.7–57.2 minutes; delayed denominator 338–6650.4% of 1,626 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?

0.4% of 1,626 movements passed the three-hour mark.

The ladder shows how many movements crossed each threshold. Cancellations are separate: 1.0% of 1,626 movements.

DelayShare and sampleOne event per movements
More than 15 minutes20.8% of 1,626 movements4.8
More than 30 minutes11.0% of 1,626 movements9.1
More than 60 minutes4.1% of 1,626 movements24.3
More than 120 minutes1.3% of 1,626 movements77.4
More than 180 minutes0.4% of 1,626 movements271.0
More than 360 minutes0.1% of 1,626 movements813.0
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?

1.3% of 1,626 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 early43927.0%15–1 early50531.1%0–15 late32720.1%16–301599.8%31–601126.9%61…120462.8%121…180150.9%181…36040.2%>36020.1%D=1,626
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: Mar 2026, 6.5% of 93 movements. Worst month: Jan 2022, 41.7% of 60 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: 20.0%; sample: 20Sep 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Oct 2021: 17.1%; sample: 35Nov 2021: 20.0%; sample: 60Dec 2021: 17.7%; sample: 62Jan 2022: 41.7%; sample: 602022Feb 2022: 8.9%; sample: 56Mar 2022: 22.6%; sample: 62Apr 2022: 15.0%; sample: 60May 2022: 16.1%; sample: 62Jun 2022: 20.0%; sample: 60Jul 2022: 18.8%; sample: 64Aug 2022: 9.0%; sample: 89Sep 2022: 17.2%; sample: 99Oct 2022: 9.5%; sample: 126Nov 2022: 16.1%; sample: 149Dec 2022: 36.1%; sample: 155Jan 2023: 7.1%; sample: 1552023Feb 2023: 16.1%; sample: 149Mar 2023: 23.2%; sample: 142Apr 2023: 18.5%; sample: 151May 2023: 12.3%; sample: 155Jun 2023: 19.3%; sample: 150Jul 2023: 21.3%; sample: 155Aug 2023: 16.0%; sample: 156Sep 2023: 22.5%; sample: 142Oct 2023: 15.0%; sample: 127Nov 2023: 13.3%; sample: 150Dec 2023: 14.2%; sample: 155Jan 2024: 13.3%; sample: 1282024Feb 2024: 13.1%; sample: 130Mar 2024: 13.5%; sample: 155Apr 2024: 17.3%; sample: 150May 2024: 10.4%; sample: 164Jun 2024: 13.3%; sample: 180Jul 2024: 12.4%; sample: 186Aug 2024: 18.2%; sample: 187Sep 2024: 15.0%; sample: 180Oct 2024: 7.4%; sample: 121Nov 2024: 6.7%; sample: 90Dec 2024: 23.7%; sample: 93Jan 2025: 19.4%; sample: 932025Feb 2025: 23.5%; sample: 85Mar 2025: 25.8%; sample: 93Apr 2025: 16.7%; sample: 90May 2025: 13.4%; sample: 134Jun 2025: 13.9%; sample: 180Jul 2025: 26.3%; sample: 186Aug 2025: 19.9%; sample: 186Sep 2025: 18.8%; sample: 181Oct 2025: 29.2%; sample: 168Nov 2025: 14.4%; sample: 90Dec 2025: 25.8%; sample: 93Jan 2026: 18.1%; sample: 942026Feb 2026: 29.8%; sample: 84Mar 2026: 6.5%; sample: 93Apr 2026: 30.5%; sample: 105May 2026: 24.1%; sample: 166Jun 2026: 16.1%; 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 202120.0% of 20 movements — small sample, not ranked
Sep 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Oct 202117.1% of 35 movements — small sample, not ranked
Nov 202120.0% of 60 movements
Dec 202117.7% of 62 movements
Jan 202241.7% of 60 movements
Feb 20228.9% of 56 movements
Mar 202222.6% of 62 movements
Apr 202215.0% of 60 movements
May 202216.1% of 62 movements
Jun 202220.0% of 60 movements
Jul 202218.8% of 64 movements
Aug 20229.0% of 89 movements
Sep 202217.2% of 99 movements
Oct 20229.5% of 126 movements
Nov 202216.1% of 149 movements
Dec 202236.1% of 155 movements
Jan 20237.1% of 155 movements
Feb 202316.1% of 149 movements
Mar 202323.2% of 142 movements
Apr 202318.5% of 151 movements
May 202312.3% of 155 movements
Jun 202319.3% of 150 movements
Jul 202321.3% of 155 movements
Aug 202316.0% of 156 movements
Sep 202322.5% of 142 movements
Oct 202315.0% of 127 movements
Nov 202313.3% of 150 movements
Dec 202314.2% of 155 movements
Jan 202413.3% of 128 movements
Feb 202413.1% of 130 movements
Mar 202413.5% of 155 movements
Apr 202417.3% of 150 movements
May 202410.4% of 164 movements
Jun 202413.3% of 180 movements
Jul 202412.4% of 186 movements
Aug 202418.2% of 187 movements
Sep 202415.0% of 180 movements
Oct 20247.4% of 121 movements
Nov 20246.7% of 90 movements
Dec 202423.7% of 93 movements
Jan 202519.4% of 93 movements
Feb 202523.5% of 85 movements
Mar 202525.8% of 93 movements
Apr 202516.7% of 90 movements
May 202513.4% of 134 movements
Jun 202513.9% of 180 movements
Jul 202526.3% of 186 movements
Aug 202519.9% of 186 movements
Sep 202518.8% of 181 movements
Oct 202529.2% of 168 movements
Nov 202514.4% of 90 movements
Dec 202525.8% of 93 movements
Jan 202618.1% of 94 movements
Feb 202629.8% of 84 movements
Mar 20266.5% of 93 movements
Apr 202630.5% of 105 movements
May 202624.1% of 166 movements
Jun 202616.1% 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 2022Arrivals18.8% of 64 movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022Departures27.0% of 63 movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Arrivals16.0% of 156 movements17.1% across 1,675 flightsreturned after 2 months
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Departures14.7% of 156 movements13.9% across 1,681 flightsreturned after 2 months
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Arrivals25.8% of 93 movements15.1% across 1,684 flightsreturned after 2 months
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Departures14.1% of 92 movements11.9% across 1,688 flightsreturned after 2 months
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: Dec, 24.7% across 4 months. Lowest median: Oct, 12.2% 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.

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 data20.0% of 20 movements †suppressed: fewer than twenty movements17.1% of 35 movements †20.0% of 60 movements17.7% of 62 movements202241.7% of 60 movements8.9% of 56 movements22.6% of 62 movements15.0% of 60 movements16.1% of 62 movements20.0% of 60 movements18.8% of 64 movements9.0% of 89 movements17.2% of 99 movements9.5% of 126 movements16.1% of 149 movements36.1% of 155 movements20237.1% of 155 movements16.1% of 149 movements23.2% of 142 movements18.5% of 151 movements12.3% of 155 movements19.3% of 150 movements21.3% of 155 movements16.0% of 156 movements22.5% of 142 movements15.0% of 127 movements13.3% of 150 movements14.2% of 155 movements202413.3% of 128 movements13.1% of 130 movements13.5% of 155 movements17.3% of 150 movements10.4% of 164 movements13.3% of 180 movements12.4% of 186 movements18.2% of 187 movements15.0% of 180 movements7.4% of 121 movements6.7% of 90 movements23.7% of 93 movements202519.4% of 93 movements23.5% of 85 movements25.8% of 93 movements16.7% of 90 movements13.4% of 134 movements13.9% of 180 movements26.3% of 186 movements19.9% of 186 movements18.8% of 181 movements29.2% of 168 movements14.4% of 90 movements25.8% of 93 movements202618.1% of 94 movements29.8% of 84 movements6.5% of 93 movements30.5% of 105 movements24.1% of 166 movements16.1% of 180 movementsno datano datano datano datano datano data
Month-by-month table: median, observed range and sample
MonthMedianObserved rangeSample
Jan18.1%7.1–41.7%5 months, 530 flights
Feb16.1%8.9–29.8%5 months, 504 flights
Mar22.6%6.5–25.8%5 months, 545 flights
Apr17.3%15.0–30.5%5 months, 556 flights
May13.4%10.4–24.1%5 months, 681 flights
Jun16.1%13.3–20.0%5 months, 750 flights
Jul20.0%12.4–26.3%4 months, 591 flights
Aug17.1%9.0–19.9%4 months, 618 flights
Sep18.0%15.0–22.5%4 months, 602 flights
Oct12.2%7.4–29.2%4 months, 542 flights
Nov13.9%6.7–16.1%4 months, 479 flights
Dec24.7%14.2–36.1%4 months, 496 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: LHR ↔ BOSTON, 18.9% of 366 movements. Highest disruption: EDI ↔ BOSTON, 29.5% of 193 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 optionLhr ↔ Boston18.9% of 366 flightsLgw ↔ Boston19.7% of 157 flightsLhr ↔ New-York-Jf-Kennedy20.9% of 731 flightsEdi ↔ New-York-Jf-Kennedy25.1% of 179 flightsEdi ↔ Boston29.5% of 193 flights
All route comparisons and sample flags
RouteDisruptionCancellationsSample flag
Heathrow ↔ Boston18.9% of 366 movements1.6% of 366 movementsdescriptive comparison
LGW ↔ BOSTON19.7% of 157 movements0.6% of 157 movementsdescriptive comparison
Heathrow ↔ New York (Jf Kennedy)20.9% of 731 movements1.1% of 731 movementsdescriptive comparison
Edinburgh ↔ New York (Jf Kennedy)25.1% of 179 movementsno events in 179 movementsdescriptive comparison
EDI ↔ BOSTON29.5% of 193 movements1.0% of 193 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
Edinburgh27.4% of 372 movementsdescriptive comparison
Gatwick19.7% of 157 movementsdescriptive comparison
Heathrow20.2% of 1,097 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

21.8% of 1,626 movements arrivals were disrupted, against 14.9% of 1,623 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

0.4% of 1,626 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

Jetblue Airways Corporation appears from Aug 2021 to Jun 2026 with 7,090 arrivals.

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

Archive route pairs: 7.

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?

21.8% of 1,626 movements over July 2025 to June 2026.

How often are they cancelled?

1.0% of 1,626 movements at short notice.

How late is late?

26.7–57.2 minutes; delayed denominator 338–665

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.