How often are these flights late or cancelled?
Hungary
In the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026, 22.6% of 6,884 movements arriving into the UK were disrupted — more than fifteen minutes late or cancelled at short notice.
Put the other way round, 77.4% of 6,884 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
22.6% of 6,884 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22.6% of 6,884 movements | 0.3% of 6,884 movements | 28.2–59.7 minutes; delayed denominator 1,534–3,009 | 0.3% of 6,884 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?
0.3% of 6,884 movements passed the three-hour mark.
The ladder shows how many movements crossed each threshold. Cancellations are separate: 0.3% of 6,884 movements.
| Delay | Share and sample | One event per movements |
|---|---|---|
| More than 15 minutes | 22.3% of 6,884 movements | 4.5 |
| More than 30 minutes | 13.3% of 6,884 movements | 7.5 |
| More than 60 minutes | 6.0% of 6,884 movements | 16.7 |
| More than 120 minutes | 1.4% of 6,884 movements | 70.2 |
| More than 180 minutes | 0.3% of 6,884 movements | 286.8 |
| More than 360 minutes | 0.0% of 6,884 movements | 2,294.7 |
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.
Slightly late or occasionally a disaster?
1.4% of 6,884 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: Jun 2021, 4.4% of 113 movements. Worst month: Jul 2022, 62.9% of 498 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 | 32.7% of 502 movements |
| Feb 2018 | 23.4% of 465 movements |
| Mar 2018 | 27.7% of 564 movements |
| Apr 2018 | 31.9% of 592 movements |
| May 2018 | 34.4% of 610 movements |
| Jun 2018 | 45.9% of 590 movements |
| Jul 2018 | 41.9% of 608 movements |
| Aug 2018 | 42.0% of 605 movements |
| Sep 2018 | 36.9% of 580 movements |
| Oct 2018 | 29.5% of 596 movements |
| Nov 2018 | 14.4% of 542 movements |
| Dec 2018 | 38.6% of 583 movements |
| Jan 2019 | 26.0% of 546 movements |
| Feb 2019 | 19.2% of 527 movements |
| Mar 2019 | 26.6% of 624 movements |
| Apr 2019 | 17.7% of 694 movements |
| May 2019 | 30.1% of 670 movements |
| Jun 2019 | 44.1% of 641 movements |
| Jul 2019 | 40.2% of 674 movements |
| Aug 2019 | 41.3% of 683 movements |
| Sep 2019 | 36.9% of 636 movements |
| Oct 2019 | 30.1% of 655 movements |
| Nov 2019 | 15.2% of 594 movements |
| Dec 2019 | 28.2% of 655 movements |
| Jan 2020 | 24.4% of 671 movements |
| Feb 2020 | 39.2% of 641 movements |
| Mar 2020 | 17.0% of 519 movements |
| Apr 2020 | 10.7% of 75 movements |
| May 2020 | 15.1% of 73 movements |
| Jun 2020 | 10.5% of 124 movements |
| Jul 2020 | 5.0% of 240 movements |
| Aug 2020 | 7.3% of 316 movements |
| Sep 2020 | 4.5% of 176 movements |
| Oct 2020 | 6.7% of 135 movements |
| Nov 2020 | 12.7% of 63 movements |
| Dec 2020 | 36.8% of 106 movements |
| Jan 2021 | 23.0% of 61 movements |
| Feb 2021 | 44.1% of 34 movements — small sample, not ranked |
| Mar 2021 | 20.0% of 35 movements — small sample, not ranked |
| Apr 2021 | 18.4% of 38 movements — small sample, not ranked |
| May 2021 | 2.4% of 41 movements — small sample, not ranked |
| Jun 2021 | 4.4% of 113 movements |
| Jul 2021 | 10.6% of 151 movements |
| Aug 2021 | 15.7% of 280 movements |
| Sep 2021 | 12.2% of 287 movements |
| Oct 2021 | 13.8% of 311 movements |
| Nov 2021 | 9.0% of 322 movements |
| Dec 2021 | 26.6% of 391 movements |
| Jan 2022 | 16.1% of 248 movements |
| Feb 2022 | 26.7% of 311 movements |
| Mar 2022 | 13.4% of 433 movements |
| Apr 2022 | 31.8% of 572 movements |
| May 2022 | 41.1% of 569 movements |
| Jun 2022 | 62.5% of 530 movements |
| Jul 2022 | 62.9% of 498 movements |
| Aug 2022 | 42.3% of 492 movements |
| Sep 2022 | 47.7% of 505 movements |
| Oct 2022 | 46.5% of 535 movements |
| Nov 2022 | 22.1% of 458 movements |
| Dec 2022 | 45.3% of 505 movements |
| Jan 2023 | 28.6% of 441 movements |
| Feb 2023 | 21.9% of 420 movements |
| Mar 2023 | 23.5% of 493 movements |
| Apr 2023 | 19.9% of 538 movements |
| May 2023 | 23.4% of 547 movements |
| Jun 2023 | 39.2% of 523 movements |
| Jul 2023 | 45.9% of 534 movements |
| Aug 2023 | 37.7% of 525 movements |
| Sep 2023 | 29.4% of 521 movements |
| Oct 2023 | 34.2% of 555 movements |
| Nov 2023 | 24.0% of 487 movements |
| Dec 2023 | 46.1% of 544 movements |
| Jan 2024 | 33.0% of 506 movements |
| Feb 2024 | 22.6% of 465 movements |
| Mar 2024 | 15.2% of 528 movements |
| Apr 2024 | 19.4% of 576 movements |
| May 2024 | 26.4% of 592 movements |
| Jun 2024 | 41.6% of 563 movements |
| Jul 2024 | 56.1% of 567 movements |
| Aug 2024 | 44.6% of 560 movements |
| Sep 2024 | 44.1% of 567 movements |
| Oct 2024 | 26.3% of 582 movements |
| Nov 2024 | 22.4% of 526 movements |
| Dec 2024 | 28.4% of 616 movements |
| Jan 2025 | 27.5% of 531 movements |
| Feb 2025 | 9.9% of 523 movements |
| Mar 2025 | 10.5% of 591 movements |
| Apr 2025 | 16.3% of 612 movements |
| May 2025 | 18.3% of 628 movements |
| Jun 2025 | 24.4% of 591 movements |
| Jul 2025 | 31.2% of 605 movements |
| Aug 2025 | 29.3% of 617 movements |
| Sep 2025 | 34.8% of 597 movements |
| Oct 2025 | 26.8% of 634 movements |
| Nov 2025 | 16.9% of 557 movements |
| Dec 2025 | 18.4% of 620 movements |
| Jan 2026 | 32.1% of 474 movements |
| Feb 2026 | 16.0% of 501 movements |
| Mar 2026 | 8.1% of 577 movements |
| Apr 2026 | 11.8% of 567 movements |
| May 2026 | 19.6% of 598 movements |
| Jun 2026 | 25.3% of 537 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 | 10.5% of 124 movements | 28.5% across 6,517 flights | returned the next month |
| Pandemic regime · Jun 2020 | Departures | 13.1% of 122 movements | 30.1% across 6,520 flights | returned the next month |
| Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022 | Arrivals | 62.9% of 498 movements | 23.3% across 4,405 flights | returned after 4 months |
| Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022 | Departures | 78.1% of 498 movements | 31.7% across 4,397 flights | returned after 4 months |
| NATS system failure · Aug 2023 | Arrivals | 37.7% of 525 movements | 33.9% across 5,991 flights | returned the next month |
| NATS system failure · Aug 2023 | Departures | 49.2% of 526 movements | 45.4% across 5,973 flights | returned the next month |
| Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025 | Arrivals | 10.5% of 591 movements | 30.2% across 6,731 flights | returned the next month |
| Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025 | Departures | 15.9% of 591 movements | 36.9% across 6,716 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: Jul, 43.9% across 6 months. Lowest median: Mar, 15.2% 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.
Month-by-month table: median, observed range and sample
| Month | Median | Observed range | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 28.6% | 16.1–33.0% | 7 months, 3,248 flights |
| Feb | 21.9% | 9.9–26.7% | 7 months, 3,212 flights |
| Mar | 15.2% | 8.1–27.7% | 7 months, 3,810 flights |
| Apr | 19.4% | 11.8–31.9% | 7 months, 4,151 flights |
| May | 26.4% | 18.3–41.1% | 7 months, 4,214 flights |
| Jun | 41.6% | 24.4–62.5% | 7 months, 3,975 flights |
| Jul | 43.9% | 31.2–62.9% | 6 months, 3,486 flights |
| Aug | 41.6% | 29.3–44.6% | 6 months, 3,482 flights |
| Sep | 36.9% | 29.4–47.7% | 6 months, 3,406 flights |
| Oct | 29.8% | 26.3–46.5% | 6 months, 3,557 flights |
| Nov | 19.5% | 14.4–24.0% | 6 months, 3,164 flights |
| Dec | 33.5% | 18.4–46.1% | 6 months, 3,523 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: EMA ↔ BUDAPEST, 10.8% of 111 movements. Highest disruption: BFS ↔ BUDAPEST, 38.9% 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.
All route comparisons and sample flags
| Route | Disruption | Cancellations | Sample flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| EMA ↔ BUDAPEST | 10.8% of 111 movements | no events in 111 movements | descriptive comparison |
| LPL ↔ BUDAPEST | 10.9% of 138 movements | no events in 138 movements | descriptive comparison |
| NCL ↔ BUDAPEST | 12.4% of 129 movements | no events in 129 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Luton ↔ Budapest | 19.8% of 1,062 movements | 0.1% of 1,062 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Heathrow ↔ Budapest | 20.2% of 1,310 movements | 0.9% of 1,310 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Stansted ↔ Budapest | 20.5% of 1,349 movements | 0.2% of 1,349 movements | descriptive comparison |
| EDI ↔ BUDAPEST | 21.9% of 379 movements | 0.5% of 379 movements | descriptive comparison |
| LBA ↔ BUDAPEST | 22.1% of 68 movements | no events in 68 movements | descriptive comparison |
| LTN ↔ DEBRECEN | 22.1% of 163 movements | 0.6% of 163 movements | descriptive comparison |
| BHX ↔ BUDAPEST | 23.1% of 351 movements | no events in 351 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Budapest | 28.1% of 730 movements | 0.1% of 730 movements | descriptive comparison |
| BRS ↔ BUDAPEST | 30.0% of 293 movements | no events in 293 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Manchester ↔ Budapest | 30.1% of 652 movements | 0.2% of 652 movements | descriptive comparison |
| BFS ↔ BUDAPEST | 38.9% of 95 movements | no events in 95 movements | descriptive comparison |
| GLA ↔ BUDAPEST | 32.7% of 49 movements — small sample, not ranked | no events in 49 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?
14 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Belfast International | 38.9% of 95 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Birmingham | 23.1% of 351 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Bristol | 30.0% of 293 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Edinburgh | 21.9% of 379 movements | descriptive comparison |
| East Midlands International | 10.8% of 111 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Glasgow | 32.7% of 49 movements — small sample, not ranked | small sample; not ranked |
| Leeds Bradford | 22.1% of 68 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick | 28.1% of 730 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Heathrow | 20.2% of 1,310 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Liverpool (John Lennon) | 10.9% of 138 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Luton | 20.1% of 1,225 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Manchester | 30.1% of 652 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Newcastle | 12.4% of 129 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Stansted | 20.5% of 1,349 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
22.6% of 6,884 movements arrivals were disrupted, against 27.3% of 6,860 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
0.3% of 6,884 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
Hungary appears from Jan 2018 to Jun 2026 with 48,431 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?
22.6% of 6,884 movements over July 2025 to June 2026.
How often are they cancelled?
0.3% of 6,884 movements at short notice.
How late is late?
28.2–59.7 minutes; delayed denominator 1,534–3,009
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.