How often are these flights late or cancelled?
Exeter
In the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026, 27.5% of 3,378 movements arriving into the UK were disrupted — more than fifteen minutes late or cancelled at short notice.
Put the other way round, 72.5% of 3,378 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.
8 operations (0.24%) 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
27.5% of 3,378 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27.5% of 3,378 movements | 3.7% of 3,378 movements | 23.9–58.4 minutes; delayed denominator 805–1,828 | 0.5% of 3,378 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?
0.5% of 3,378 movements passed the three-hour mark.
The ladder shows how many movements crossed each threshold. Cancellations are separate: 3.7% of 3,378 movements.
| Delay | Share and sample | One event per movements |
|---|---|---|
| More than 15 minutes | 23.8% of 3,378 movements | 4.2 |
| More than 30 minutes | 13.4% of 3,378 movements | 7.5 |
| More than 60 minutes | 5.3% of 3,378 movements | 19.0 |
| More than 120 minutes | 1.6% of 3,378 movements | 62.6 |
| More than 180 minutes | 0.5% of 3,378 movements | 211.1 |
| More than 360 minutes | 0.0% of 3,378 movements | 3,378.0 |
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?
1.6% of 3,378 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: Oct 2020, 7.0% of 114 movements. Worst month: Dec 2023, 49.4% of 176 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 | 19.6% of 398 movements |
| Feb 2018 | 25.1% of 375 movements |
| Mar 2018 | 31.1% of 428 movements |
| Apr 2018 | 20.4% of 545 movements |
| May 2018 | 22.8% of 602 movements |
| Jun 2018 | 24.8% of 637 movements |
| Jul 2018 | 21.0% of 666 movements |
| Aug 2018 | 20.0% of 664 movements |
| Sep 2018 | 21.0% of 630 movements |
| Oct 2018 | 15.9% of 555 movements |
| Nov 2018 | 24.4% of 467 movements |
| Dec 2018 | 22.2% of 482 movements |
| Jan 2019 | 18.7% of 444 movements |
| Feb 2019 | 23.9% of 435 movements |
| Mar 2019 | 28.9% of 488 movements |
| Apr 2019 | 18.0% of 621 movements |
| May 2019 | 16.0% of 683 movements |
| Jun 2019 | 25.8% of 710 movements |
| Jul 2019 | suppressed: fewer than twenty movements |
| Aug 2019 | 22.7% of 743 movements |
| Sep 2019 | 20.5% of 663 movements |
| Oct 2019 | suppressed: fewer than twenty movements |
| Nov 2019 | 9.9% of 413 movements |
| Dec 2019 | 14.9% of 437 movements |
| Jan 2020 | 9.9% of 374 movements |
| Feb 2020 | 16.8% of 392 movements |
| Mar 2020 | 34.7% of 118 movements |
| Apr 2020 | suppressed: fewer than twenty movements |
| May 2020 | suppressed: fewer than twenty movements |
| Jun 2020 | suppressed: fewer than twenty movements |
| Jul 2020 | suppressed: fewer than twenty movements |
| Aug 2020 | 18.6% of 102 movements |
| Sep 2020 | 8.6% of 152 movements |
| Oct 2020 | 7.0% of 114 movements |
| Nov 2020 | suppressed: fewer than twenty movements |
| Dec 2020 | 8.3% of 36 movements — small sample, not ranked |
| Jan 2021 | suppressed: fewer than twenty movements |
| Feb 2021 | suppressed: fewer than twenty movements |
| Mar 2021 | suppressed: fewer than twenty movements |
| Apr 2021 | no events in 35 movements — small sample, not ranked |
| May 2021 | 12.6% of 103 movements |
| Jun 2021 | 25.4% of 173 movements |
| Jul 2021 | 28.6% of 262 movements |
| Aug 2021 | 23.0% of 278 movements |
| Sep 2021 | 22.1% of 271 movements |
| Oct 2021 | 21.6% of 268 movements |
| Nov 2021 | 8.8% of 171 movements |
| Dec 2021 | 16.9% of 172 movements |
| Jan 2022 | 8.0% of 125 movements |
| Feb 2022 | 19.0% of 116 movements |
| Mar 2022 | 14.9% of 161 movements |
| Apr 2022 | 18.7% of 257 movements |
| May 2022 | 26.0% of 311 movements |
| Jun 2022 | 30.8% of 344 movements |
| Jul 2022 | 25.2% of 365 movements |
| Aug 2022 | 23.6% of 351 movements |
| Sep 2022 | 28.7% of 334 movements |
| Oct 2022 | 23.7% of 262 movements |
| Nov 2022 | 18.4% of 163 movements |
| Dec 2022 | 38.6% of 166 movements |
| Jan 2023 | 24.3% of 144 movements |
| Feb 2023 | 15.6% of 147 movements |
| Mar 2023 | 19.7% of 188 movements |
| Apr 2023 | 20.0% of 260 movements |
| May 2023 | 28.5% of 312 movements |
| Jun 2023 | 24.2% of 331 movements |
| Jul 2023 | 32.9% of 371 movements |
| Aug 2023 | 37.5% of 352 movements |
| Sep 2023 | 33.0% of 349 movements |
| Oct 2023 | 24.8% of 274 movements |
| Nov 2023 | 20.0% of 170 movements |
| Dec 2023 | 49.4% of 176 movements |
| Jan 2024 | 20.1% of 164 movements |
| Feb 2024 | 17.1% of 158 movements |
| Mar 2024 | 17.0% of 188 movements |
| Apr 2024 | 30.0% of 237 movements |
| May 2024 | 33.0% of 288 movements |
| Jun 2024 | 32.6% of 291 movements |
| Jul 2024 | 37.3% of 324 movements |
| Aug 2024 | 28.5% of 323 movements |
| Sep 2024 | 26.9% of 309 movements |
| Oct 2024 | 20.3% of 251 movements |
| Nov 2024 | 24.3% of 140 movements |
| Dec 2024 | 30.3% of 152 movements |
| Jan 2025 | 33.9% of 121 movements |
| Feb 2025 | 19.8% of 126 movements |
| Mar 2025 | 14.6% of 164 movements |
| Apr 2025 | 17.6% of 290 movements |
| May 2025 | 25.3% of 336 movements |
| Jun 2025 | 31.3% of 374 movements |
| Jul 2025 | 29.2% of 383 movements |
| Aug 2025 | 24.0% of 400 movements |
| Sep 2025 | 25.8% of 364 movements |
| Oct 2025 | 26.2% of 321 movements |
| Nov 2025 | 18.9% of 206 movements |
| Dec 2025 | 24.9% of 209 movements |
| Jan 2026 | 31.7% of 167 movements |
| Feb 2026 | 23.3% of 146 movements |
| Mar 2026 | 23.2% of 198 movements |
| Apr 2026 | 25.6% of 301 movements |
| May 2026 | 27.3% of 319 movements |
| Jun 2026 | 42.9% of 364 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 | suppressed: fewer than twenty movements | no complete baseline | not enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month |
| Pandemic regime · Jun 2020 | Departures | suppressed: fewer than twenty movements | no complete baseline | not enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month |
| Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022 | Arrivals | 25.2% of 365 movements | 19.9% across 2,736 flights | returned after 4 months |
| Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022 | Departures | 21.7% of 355 movements | 17.6% across 2,754 flights | returned after 7 months |
| NATS system failure · Aug 2023 | Arrivals | 37.5% of 352 movements | 24.9% across 3,029 flights | returned after 2 months |
| NATS system failure · Aug 2023 | Departures | 38.6% of 352 movements | 24.8% across 2,997 flights | returned after 2 months |
| Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025 | Arrivals | 14.6% of 164 movements | 27.8% across 2,750 flights | returned the next month |
| Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025 | Departures | 16.8% of 167 movements | 28.3% across 2,743 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: Jun, 30.8% across 7 months. Lowest median: Nov, 19.5% across 6 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 | 20.1% | 8.0–33.9% | 7 months, 1,563 flights |
| Feb | 19.8% | 15.6–25.1% | 7 months, 1,503 flights |
| Mar | 19.7% | 14.6–31.1% | 7 months, 1,815 flights |
| Apr | 20.0% | 17.6–30.0% | 7 months, 2,511 flights |
| May | 26.0% | 16.0–33.0% | 7 months, 2,851 flights |
| Jun | 30.8% | 24.2–42.9% | 7 months, 3,051 flights |
| Jul | 29.2% | 21.0–37.3% | 5 months, 2,109 flights |
| Aug | 23.8% | 20.0–37.5% | 6 months, 2,833 flights |
| Sep | 26.3% | 20.5–33.0% | 6 months, 2,649 flights |
| Oct | 23.7% | 15.9–26.2% | 5 months, 1,663 flights |
| Nov | 19.5% | 9.9–24.4% | 6 months, 1,559 flights |
| Dec | 27.6% | 14.9–49.4% | 6 months, 1,622 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.
Every published route from this airport
The published route directory contains 0 routes. The first table slice is below; continue through the linked directory pages for every route.
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.
| Route | Disruption | Cancellations | Sample flag |
|---|
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.
Airlines at this airport
10 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.
| Airline | Disruption | Sample flag |
|---|---|---|
| Aer Lingus | 26.3% of 190 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Aurigny Air Services | 44.0% of 232 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Blue Islands Limited | 26.4% of 125 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Emerald Airlines (Ireland) Limited | 11.9% of 109 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Emerald Airlines UK Ltd | 25.3% of 79 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Isles Of Scilly Skybus | 36.3% of 273 movements | descriptive comparison |
| KLM | 18.5% of 356 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Loganair Ltd | 25.4% of 845 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Ryanair | 20.8% of 403 movements | descriptive comparison |
| TUI Airways Ltd | 31.3% of 750 movements | descriptive 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
27.5% of 3,378 movements arrivals were disrupted, against 29.7% of 3,402 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.
Routes that no longer operate from here
74 routes appear in the archive but have no movements in the latest published month.
No commercial closure date or cause is implied. A route may be seasonal or restart in future data; the date is its last observed active month.
Every historical route and its last active month
| Historical route | Last active month |
|---|---|
| EXT ↔ LONDON-CITY | May 2026 |
| EXT ↔ VENICE | Apr 2026 |
| EXT ↔ MADRID | Apr 2026 |
| EXT ↔ LYON | Apr 2026 |
| EXT ↔ LAS-PALMAS | Apr 2026 |
| EXT ↔ GOOSE-BAY | Apr 2026 |
| EXT ↔ GATWICK | Apr 2026 |
| EXT ↔ BRISTOL | Apr 2026 |
| EXT ↔ ZURICH | Mar 2026 |
| EXT ↔ ROME-FIUMICINO | Mar 2026 |
| EXT ↔ CHAMBERY | Mar 2026 |
| EXT ↔ ENONTEKIO | Jan 2026 |
| EXT ↔ KRAKOW | Nov 2025 |
| EXT ↔ ANTALYA | Oct 2025 |
| EXT ↔ LANDS-END-ST-JUST | Sep 2025 |
| EXT ↔ ZAGREB | Jun 2025 |
| EXT ↔ BEMBRIDGE | Jun 2025 |
| EXT ↔ LEEDS-BRADFORD | May 2025 |
| EXT ↔ GLOUCESTERSHIRE | May 2025 |
| EXT ↔ TEESSIDE-INTERNATIONAL-AIRPORT | Apr 2025 |
| EXT ↔ NEWQUAY | Apr 2025 |
| EXT ↔ EAST-MIDLANDS-INTERNATIONAL | Apr 2025 |
| EXT ↔ SOUTHAMPTON | Mar 2025 |
| EXT ↔ BORDEAUX | Jan 2025 |
| EXT ↔ NORWICH | Nov 2024 |
| EXT ↔ CAIRO | Nov 2024 |
| EXT ↔ NANTES | Sep 2024 |
| EXT ↔ DUNKESWELL | Sep 2024 |
| EXT ↔ BLACKPOOL | Sep 2024 |
| EXT ↔ HUMBERSIDE | Aug 2024 |
| EXT ↔ WHALSAY | Jul 2024 |
| EXT ↔ REDHILL | Jul 2024 |
| EXT ↔ STANSTED | Mar 2024 |
| EXT ↔ GLASGOW | Mar 2024 |
| EXT ↔ HELSINKI | Nov 2023 |
| EXT ↔ CARDIFF-WALES | Nov 2023 |
| EXT ↔ TIRANA | Oct 2023 |
| EXT ↔ GUYANCOURT | Oct 2023 |
| EXT ↔ HEATHROW | Sep 2023 |
| EXT ↔ BIGGIN-HILL | Aug 2023 |
| EXT ↔ GIBRALTAR | May 2023 |
| EXT ↔ BIRMINGHAM | Mar 2023 |
| EXT ↔ PARIS-LE-BOURGET | Feb 2023 |
| EXT ↔ PAJALA-YLLAS | Dec 2022 |
| EXT ↔ BARDUFOSS | Nov 2022 |
| EXT ↔ ERFURT | Aug 2022 |
| EXT ↔ SHANNON | Apr 2022 |
| EXT ↔ MONTPELLIER | Jan 2022 |
| EXT ↔ ABERDEEN | Aug 2021 |
| EXT ↔ CONSTANTA | Jan 2021 |
| EXT ↔ DONCASTER-SHEFFIELD | Dec 2020 |
| EXT ↔ BOURNEMOUTH | Nov 2020 |
| EXT ↔ TOULOUSE-BLAGNAC | Sep 2020 |
| EXT ↔ PARIS-CHARLES-DE-GAULLE | Mar 2020 |
| EXT ↔ MALTA | Mar 2020 |
| EXT ↔ SALZBURG | Feb 2020 |
| EXT ↔ LUTON | Feb 2020 |
| EXT ↔ HANOVER | Feb 2020 |
| EXT ↔ GENEVA | Feb 2020 |
| EXT ↔ IVALO | Dec 2019 |
| EXT ↔ ROVANIEMI | Nov 2019 |
| EXT ↔ LA-ROCHELLE | Nov 2019 |
| EXT ↔ DUSSELDORF | Oct 2019 |
| EXT ↔ BERGERAC | Oct 2019 |
| EXT ↔ NAPLES | Sep 2019 |
| EXT ↔ LARNACA | Sep 2019 |
| EXT ↔ TARBES-LOURDES-INTERNATIONAL | Aug 2019 |
| EXT ↔ RENNES | Aug 2019 |
| EXT ↔ SOUTHEND | May 2019 |
| EXT ↔ AKUREYRI | Feb 2019 |
| EXT ↔ PRESTWICK | Dec 2018 |
| EXT ↔ FUNCHAL | Nov 2018 |
| EXT ↔ CARCASSONNE | Oct 2018 |
| EXT ↔ CORK | Aug 2018 |
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
Exeter appears from Jan 2018 to Jun 2026 with 28,822 arrivals.
The bounds describe the published record, not every commercial service. Final point is not necessarily a nonstop destination.
Archive route pairs: 120.
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.
8 operations (0.24%) 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?
27.5% of 3,378 movements over July 2025 to June 2026.
How often are they cancelled?
3.7% of 3,378 movements at short notice.
How late is late?
23.9–58.4 minutes; delayed denominator 805–1,828
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.