UK FLIGHT DELAY INDEX

derived from CAA punctuality statistics for UK reporting airports

How often are these flights late or cancelled?

Lot-Polish Airlines

In the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026, 30.0% of 1,269 movements arriving into the UK were disrupted — more than fifteen minutes late or cancelled at short notice.

Put the other way round, 70.0% of 1,269 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

30.0% of 1,269 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
30.0% of 1,269 movements0.2% of 1,269 movements20.9–46.8 minutes; delayed denominator 378–786no events in 1,269 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 1,269 movements passed the three-hour mark.

The ladder shows how many movements crossed each threshold. Cancellations are separate: 0.2% of 1,269 movements.

DelayShare and sampleOne event per movements
More than 15 minutes29.8% of 1,269 movements3.4
More than 30 minutes14.0% of 1,269 movements7.1
More than 60 minutes3.8% of 1,269 movements26.4
More than 120 minutes0.5% of 1,269 movements211.5
More than 180 minutesno events in 1,269 movementsNo observed events; this is not zero risk.
More than 360 minutesno events in 1,269 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?

0.5% of 1,269 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 early866.8%15–1 early39431.0%0–15 late40832.2%16–3020015.8%31–6013010.2%61…120423.3%121…18060.5%181…36000.0%>36000.0%D=1,269
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: Aug 2020, no events in 63 movements. Worst month: Jul 2019, 63.2% of 95 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: 31.1%; sample: 902018Feb 2018: 8.8%; sample: 80Mar 2018: 11.4%; sample: 88Apr 2018: 38.4%; sample: 86May 2018: 22.6%; sample: 93Jun 2018: 41.1%; sample: 90Jul 2018: 32.3%; sample: 93Aug 2018: 32.6%; sample: 95Sep 2018: 40.0%; sample: 90Oct 2018: 33.0%; sample: 91Nov 2018: 22.1%; sample: 86Dec 2018: 37.9%; sample: 87Jan 2019: 16.4%; sample: 1342019Feb 2019: 21.6%; sample: 148Mar 2019: 30.7%; sample: 192Apr 2019: 20.1%; sample: 184May 2019: 35.5%; sample: 93Jun 2019: 50.0%; sample: 90Jul 2019: 63.2%; sample: 95Aug 2019: 47.9%; sample: 94Sep 2019: 55.6%; sample: 90Oct 2019: 60.9%; sample: 92Nov 2019: 25.8%; sample: 89Dec 2019: 29.7%; sample: 91Jan 2020: 22.4%; sample: 2502020Feb 2020: 42.5%; sample: 228Mar 2020: 17.9%; sample: 229Apr 2020: 12.0%; sample: 25May 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jun 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jul 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Aug 2020: 0.0%; sample: 63Sep 2020: 15.1%; sample: 119Oct 2020: 1.8%; sample: 57Nov 2020: 0.0%; sample: 49Dec 2020: 19.6%; sample: 46Jan 2021: 15.2%; sample: 462021Feb 2021: 17.9%; sample: 39Mar 2021: 1.8%; sample: 56Apr 2021: 17.2%; sample: 58May 2021: 13.2%; sample: 53Jun 2021: 11.8%; sample: 68Jul 2021: 4.6%; sample: 65Aug 2021: 28.1%; sample: 64Sep 2021: 9.1%; sample: 77Oct 2021: 10.1%; sample: 79Nov 2021: 6.6%; sample: 61Dec 2021: 22.9%; sample: 70Jan 2022: 21.9%; sample: 642022Feb 2022: 22.4%; sample: 49Mar 2022: 11.9%; sample: 67Apr 2022: 33.7%; sample: 92May 2022: 23.3%; sample: 120Jun 2022: 42.1%; sample: 114Jul 2022: 36.3%; sample: 102Aug 2022: 18.0%; sample: 89Sep 2022: 35.4%; sample: 96Oct 2022: 26.6%; sample: 94Nov 2022: 14.6%; sample: 103Dec 2022: 40.0%; sample: 105Jan 2023: 25.0%; sample: 1042023Feb 2023: 11.5%; sample: 96Mar 2023: 22.9%; sample: 109Apr 2023: 14.2%; sample: 106May 2023: 7.2%; sample: 111Jun 2023: 18.1%; sample: 116Jul 2023: 30.3%; sample: 119Aug 2023: 27.8%; sample: 115Sep 2023: 30.4%; sample: 115Oct 2023: 33.0%; sample: 109Nov 2023: 24.0%; sample: 104Dec 2023: 57.7%; sample: 104Jan 2024: 45.5%; sample: 1102024Feb 2024: 34.0%; sample: 100Mar 2024: 15.3%; sample: 111Apr 2024: 28.6%; sample: 112May 2024: 21.9%; sample: 114Jun 2024: 38.7%; sample: 111Jul 2024: 35.3%; sample: 116Aug 2024: 36.5%; sample: 115Sep 2024: 44.6%; sample: 112Oct 2024: 43.5%; sample: 115Nov 2024: 28.3%; sample: 106Dec 2024: 36.6%; sample: 112Jan 2025: 35.1%; sample: 1112025Feb 2025: 14.6%; sample: 96Mar 2025: 13.5%; sample: 111Apr 2025: 12.5%; sample: 112May 2025: 19.1%; sample: 115Jun 2025: 25.9%; sample: 112Jul 2025: 23.5%; sample: 115Aug 2025: 21.6%; sample: 116Sep 2025: 41.6%; sample: 113Oct 2025: 33.0%; sample: 115Nov 2025: 26.4%; sample: 106Dec 2025: 36.9%; sample: 111Jan 2026: 50.9%; sample: 1122026Feb 2026: 31.0%; sample: 100Mar 2026: 11.0%; sample: 109Apr 2026: 23.6%; sample: 89May 2026: 11.8%; sample: 93Jun 2026: 47.8%; sample: 90Pandemic regime Jun 2020Summer 2022 breakdown Jul 2022NATS system failure Aug 2023Heathrow fire closure Mar 2025100%0%
Every monthly observation
MonthDisruption on arrivals
Jan 201831.1% of 90 movements
Feb 20188.8% of 80 movements
Mar 201811.4% of 88 movements
Apr 201838.4% of 86 movements
May 201822.6% of 93 movements
Jun 201841.1% of 90 movements
Jul 201832.3% of 93 movements
Aug 201832.6% of 95 movements
Sep 201840.0% of 90 movements
Oct 201833.0% of 91 movements
Nov 201822.1% of 86 movements
Dec 201837.9% of 87 movements
Jan 201916.4% of 134 movements
Feb 201921.6% of 148 movements
Mar 201930.7% of 192 movements
Apr 201920.1% of 184 movements
May 201935.5% of 93 movements
Jun 201950.0% of 90 movements
Jul 201963.2% of 95 movements
Aug 201947.9% of 94 movements
Sep 201955.6% of 90 movements
Oct 201960.9% of 92 movements
Nov 201925.8% of 89 movements
Dec 201929.7% of 91 movements
Jan 202022.4% of 250 movements
Feb 202042.5% of 228 movements
Mar 202017.9% of 229 movements
Apr 202012.0% of 25 movements — small sample, not ranked
May 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jun 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jul 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Aug 2020no events in 63 movements
Sep 202015.1% of 119 movements
Oct 20201.8% of 57 movements
Nov 2020no events in 49 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202019.6% of 46 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 202115.2% of 46 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202117.9% of 39 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 20211.8% of 56 movements
Apr 202117.2% of 58 movements
May 202113.2% of 53 movements
Jun 202111.8% of 68 movements
Jul 20214.6% of 65 movements
Aug 202128.1% of 64 movements
Sep 20219.1% of 77 movements
Oct 202110.1% of 79 movements
Nov 20216.6% of 61 movements
Dec 202122.9% of 70 movements
Jan 202221.9% of 64 movements
Feb 202222.4% of 49 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202211.9% of 67 movements
Apr 202233.7% of 92 movements
May 202223.3% of 120 movements
Jun 202242.1% of 114 movements
Jul 202236.3% of 102 movements
Aug 202218.0% of 89 movements
Sep 202235.4% of 96 movements
Oct 202226.6% of 94 movements
Nov 202214.6% of 103 movements
Dec 202240.0% of 105 movements
Jan 202325.0% of 104 movements
Feb 202311.5% of 96 movements
Mar 202322.9% of 109 movements
Apr 202314.2% of 106 movements
May 20237.2% of 111 movements
Jun 202318.1% of 116 movements
Jul 202330.3% of 119 movements
Aug 202327.8% of 115 movements
Sep 202330.4% of 115 movements
Oct 202333.0% of 109 movements
Nov 202324.0% of 104 movements
Dec 202357.7% of 104 movements
Jan 202445.5% of 110 movements
Feb 202434.0% of 100 movements
Mar 202415.3% of 111 movements
Apr 202428.6% of 112 movements
May 202421.9% of 114 movements
Jun 202438.7% of 111 movements
Jul 202435.3% of 116 movements
Aug 202436.5% of 115 movements
Sep 202444.6% of 112 movements
Oct 202443.5% of 115 movements
Nov 202428.3% of 106 movements
Dec 202436.6% of 112 movements
Jan 202535.1% of 111 movements
Feb 202514.6% of 96 movements
Mar 202513.5% of 111 movements
Apr 202512.5% of 112 movements
May 202519.1% of 115 movements
Jun 202525.9% of 112 movements
Jul 202523.5% of 115 movements
Aug 202521.6% of 116 movements
Sep 202541.6% of 113 movements
Oct 202533.0% of 115 movements
Nov 202526.4% of 106 movements
Dec 202536.9% of 111 movements
Jan 202650.9% of 112 movements
Feb 202631.0% of 100 movements
Mar 202611.0% of 109 movements
Apr 202623.6% of 89 movements
May 202611.8% of 93 movements
Jun 202647.8% of 90 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 2020Arrivalssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
Pandemic regime · Jun 2020Departuressuppressed: fewer than twenty movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022Arrivals36.3% of 102 movements19.7% across 922 flightsreturned the next month
Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022Departures69.9% of 103 movements37.2% across 921 flightsreturned after 6 months
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Arrivals27.8% of 115 movements22.0% across 1,248 flightsreturned after 7 months
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Departures54.8% of 115 movements44.7% across 1,248 flightsreturned after 3 months
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Arrivals13.5% of 111 movements31.6% across 1,331 flightsreturned the next month
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Departures24.3% of 111 movements45.5% across 1,334 flightsreturned 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: Jun, 41.1% across 7 months. Lowest median: Mar, 13.5% across 7 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 nJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec201916.4% of 134 movements21.6% of 148 movements30.7% of 192 movements20.1% of 184 movements35.5% of 93 movements50.0% of 90 movements63.2% of 95 movements47.9% of 94 movements55.6% of 90 movements60.9% of 92 movements25.8% of 89 movements29.7% of 91 movements202022.4% of 250 movements42.5% of 228 movements17.9% of 229 movements12.0% of 25 movements †suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementsno events in 63 movements15.1% of 119 movements1.8% of 57 movementsno events in 49 movements †19.6% of 46 movements †202115.2% of 46 movements †17.9% of 39 movements †1.8% of 56 movements17.2% of 58 movements13.2% of 53 movements11.8% of 68 movements4.6% of 65 movements28.1% of 64 movements9.1% of 77 movements10.1% of 79 movements6.6% of 61 movements22.9% of 70 movements202221.9% of 64 movements22.4% of 49 movements †11.9% of 67 movements33.7% of 92 movements23.3% of 120 movements42.1% of 114 movements36.3% of 102 movements18.0% of 89 movements35.4% of 96 movements26.6% of 94 movements14.6% of 103 movements40.0% of 105 movements202325.0% of 104 movements11.5% of 96 movements22.9% of 109 movements14.2% of 106 movements7.2% of 111 movements18.1% of 116 movements30.3% of 119 movements27.8% of 115 movements30.4% of 115 movements33.0% of 109 movements24.0% of 104 movements57.7% of 104 movements202445.5% of 110 movements34.0% of 100 movements15.3% of 111 movements28.6% of 112 movements21.9% of 114 movements38.7% of 111 movements35.3% of 116 movements36.5% of 115 movements44.6% of 112 movements43.5% of 115 movements28.3% of 106 movements36.6% of 112 movements202535.1% of 111 movements14.6% of 96 movements13.5% of 111 movements12.5% of 112 movements19.1% of 115 movements25.9% of 112 movements23.5% of 115 movements21.6% of 116 movements41.6% of 113 movements33.0% of 115 movements26.4% of 106 movements36.9% of 111 movements202650.9% of 112 movements31.0% of 100 movements11.0% of 109 movements23.6% of 89 movements11.8% of 93 movements47.8% of 90 movementsno datano datano datano datano datano data
Month-by-month table: median, observed range and sample
MonthMedianObserved rangeSample
Jan31.1%16.4–50.9%7 months, 725 flights
Feb21.6%8.8–34.0%7 months, 669 flights
Mar13.5%11.0–30.7%7 months, 787 flights
Apr23.6%12.5–38.4%7 months, 781 flights
May21.9%7.2–35.5%7 months, 739 flights
Jun41.1%18.1–50.0%7 months, 723 flights
Jul33.8%23.5–63.2%6 months, 640 flights
Aug30.2%18.0–47.9%6 months, 624 flights
Sep40.8%30.4–55.6%6 months, 616 flights
Oct33.0%26.6–60.9%6 months, 616 flights
Nov24.9%14.6–28.3%6 months, 594 flights
Dec37.4%29.7–57.7%6 months, 610 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 ↔ VILNIUS, 14.6% of 192 movements. Highest disruption: LHR ↔ WARSAW-CHOPIN, 32.8% of 1,075 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 ↔ Vilnius14.6% of 192 flightsLhr ↔ Warsaw-Chopin32.8% of 1,075 flights
All route comparisons and sample flags
RouteDisruptionCancellationsSample flag
LCY ↔ VILNIUS14.6% of 192 movementsno events in 192 movementsdescriptive comparison
Heathrow ↔ Warsaw (Chopin)32.8% of 1,075 movements0.3% of 1,075 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?

2 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 City14.6% of 192 movementsdescriptive comparison
Heathrow32.8% of 1,075 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

30.0% of 1,269 movements arrivals were disrupted, against 37.2% of 1,267 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 1,269 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

Lot-Polish Airlines appears from Jan 2018 to Jun 2026 with 9,944 arrivals.

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

Archive route pairs: 33.

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?

30.0% of 1,269 movements over July 2025 to June 2026.

How often are they cancelled?

0.2% of 1,269 movements at short notice.

How late is late?

20.9–46.8 minutes; delayed denominator 378–786

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.