UK FLIGHT DELAY INDEX

derived from CAA punctuality statistics for UK reporting airports

How often are these flights late or cancelled?

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In the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026, 16.1% of 1,018 movements arriving into the UK were disrupted — more than fifteen minutes late or cancelled at short notice.

Put the other way round, 83.9% of 1,018 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

16.1% of 1,018 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
16.1% of 1,018 movements1.5% of 1,018 movements16.6–55.1 minutes; delayed denominator 149–4360.3% of 1,018 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 1,018 movements passed the three-hour mark.

The ladder shows how many movements crossed each threshold. Cancellations are separate: 1.5% of 1,018 movements.

DelayShare and sampleOne event per movements
More than 15 minutes14.6% of 1,018 movements6.8
More than 30 minutes6.8% of 1,018 movements14.8
More than 60 minutes1.6% of 1,018 movements63.6
More than 120 minutes0.5% of 1,018 movements203.6
More than 180 minutes0.3% of 1,018 movements339.3
More than 360 minutes0.1% of 1,018 movements1,018.0
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?

0.5% of 1,018 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 early24223.8%15–1 early32531.9%0–15 late28728.2%16–30807.9%31–60535.2%61…120111.1%121…18020.2%181…36020.2%>36010.1%D=1,018
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: Sep 2021, 1.9% of 53 movements. Worst month: Jan 2024, 47.2% of 72 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: 45.0%; sample: 602018Feb 2018: 13.5%; sample: 52Mar 2018: 11.7%; sample: 60Apr 2018: 6.7%; sample: 60May 2018: 5.0%; sample: 60Jun 2018: 10.5%; sample: 57Jul 2018: 6.2%; sample: 64Aug 2018: 12.9%; sample: 62Sep 2018: 16.1%; sample: 62Oct 2018: 4.8%; sample: 62Nov 2018: 18.0%; sample: 61Dec 2018: 27.0%; sample: 63Jan 2019: 10.9%; sample: 552019Feb 2019: 5.6%; sample: 54Mar 2019: 18.8%; sample: 64Apr 2019: 9.5%; sample: 63May 2019: 8.1%; sample: 62Jun 2019: 5.0%; sample: 60Jul 2019: 12.7%; sample: 63Aug 2019: 27.4%; sample: 62Sep 2019: 20.3%; sample: 59Oct 2019: 19.0%; sample: 63Nov 2019: 4.5%; sample: 67Dec 2019: 16.4%; sample: 67Jan 2020: 13.4%; sample: 672020Feb 2020: 30.2%; sample: 63Mar 2020: 17.5%; sample: 40Apr 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: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Sep 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Oct 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Nov 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Dec 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jan 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×2021Feb 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Mar 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Apr 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×May 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jun 2021: 10.7%; sample: 28Jul 2021: 1.9%; sample: 52Aug 2021: 12.1%; sample: 58Sep 2021: 1.9%; sample: 53Oct 2021: 1.9%; sample: 53Nov 2021: 7.7%; sample: 52Dec 2021: 8.1%; sample: 62Jan 2022: 22.2%; sample: 722022Feb 2022: 15.8%; sample: 57Mar 2022: 8.3%; sample: 72Apr 2022: 6.7%; sample: 60May 2022: 8.1%; sample: 62Jun 2022: 11.7%; sample: 60Jul 2022: 10.0%; sample: 70Aug 2022: 6.1%; sample: 66Sep 2022: 20.0%; sample: 65Oct 2022: 18.8%; sample: 64Nov 2022: 9.4%; sample: 64Dec 2022: 35.1%; sample: 77Jan 2023: 20.7%; sample: 822023Feb 2023: 23.3%; sample: 73Mar 2023: 19.3%; sample: 83Apr 2023: 16.9%; sample: 83May 2023: 15.8%; sample: 76Jun 2023: 6.6%; sample: 76Jul 2023: 24.7%; sample: 81Aug 2023: 22.1%; sample: 86Sep 2023: 22.5%; sample: 89Oct 2023: 37.2%; sample: 86Nov 2023: 41.9%; sample: 74Dec 2023: 43.1%; sample: 72Jan 2024: 47.2%; sample: 722024Feb 2024: 30.6%; sample: 62Mar 2024: 25.0%; sample: 88Apr 2024: 24.7%; sample: 97May 2024: 24.0%; sample: 96Jun 2024: 11.8%; sample: 85Jul 2024: 11.4%; sample: 105Aug 2024: 18.7%; sample: 107Sep 2024: 20.2%; sample: 94Oct 2024: 25.0%; sample: 64Nov 2024: 7.4%; sample: 54Dec 2024: 7.7%; sample: 91Jan 2025: 20.2%; sample: 942025Feb 2025: 16.1%; sample: 93Mar 2025: 10.8%; sample: 93Apr 2025: 2.1%; sample: 96May 2025: 8.7%; sample: 92Jun 2025: 19.2%; sample: 52Jul 2025: 6.8%; sample: 73Aug 2025: 12.7%; sample: 118Sep 2025: 17.8%; sample: 101Oct 2025: 7.4%; sample: 108Nov 2025: 6.4%; sample: 109Dec 2025: 17.2%; sample: 122Jan 2026: 28.2%; sample: 1172026Feb 2026: 15.6%; sample: 90Mar 2026: 44.1%; sample: 68Apr 2026: 7.7%; sample: 39May 2026: 6.2%; sample: 32Jun 2026: 19.5%; sample: 41Pandemic regime Jun 2020Summer 2022 breakdown Jul 2022NATS system failure Aug 2023Heathrow fire closure Mar 2025100%0%
Every monthly observation
MonthDisruption on arrivals
Jan 201845.0% of 60 movements
Feb 201813.5% of 52 movements
Mar 201811.7% of 60 movements
Apr 20186.7% of 60 movements
May 20185.0% of 60 movements
Jun 201810.5% of 57 movements
Jul 20186.2% of 64 movements
Aug 201812.9% of 62 movements
Sep 201816.1% of 62 movements
Oct 20184.8% of 62 movements
Nov 201818.0% of 61 movements
Dec 201827.0% of 63 movements
Jan 201910.9% of 55 movements
Feb 20195.6% of 54 movements
Mar 201918.8% of 64 movements
Apr 20199.5% of 63 movements
May 20198.1% of 62 movements
Jun 20195.0% of 60 movements
Jul 201912.7% of 63 movements
Aug 201927.4% of 62 movements
Sep 201920.3% of 59 movements
Oct 201919.0% of 63 movements
Nov 20194.5% of 67 movements
Dec 201916.4% of 67 movements
Jan 202013.4% of 67 movements
Feb 202030.2% of 63 movements
Mar 202017.5% of 40 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
May 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jun 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jul 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Aug 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Sep 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Oct 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Nov 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Dec 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jan 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Feb 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Mar 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Apr 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
May 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jun 202110.7% of 28 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jul 20211.9% of 52 movements
Aug 202112.1% of 58 movements
Sep 20211.9% of 53 movements
Oct 20211.9% of 53 movements
Nov 20217.7% of 52 movements
Dec 20218.1% of 62 movements
Jan 202222.2% of 72 movements
Feb 202215.8% of 57 movements
Mar 20228.3% of 72 movements
Apr 20226.7% of 60 movements
May 20228.1% of 62 movements
Jun 202211.7% of 60 movements
Jul 202210.0% of 70 movements
Aug 20226.1% of 66 movements
Sep 202220.0% of 65 movements
Oct 202218.8% of 64 movements
Nov 20229.4% of 64 movements
Dec 202235.1% of 77 movements
Jan 202320.7% of 82 movements
Feb 202323.3% of 73 movements
Mar 202319.3% of 83 movements
Apr 202316.9% of 83 movements
May 202315.8% of 76 movements
Jun 20236.6% of 76 movements
Jul 202324.7% of 81 movements
Aug 202322.1% of 86 movements
Sep 202322.5% of 89 movements
Oct 202337.2% of 86 movements
Nov 202341.9% of 74 movements
Dec 202343.1% of 72 movements
Jan 202447.2% of 72 movements
Feb 202430.6% of 62 movements
Mar 202425.0% of 88 movements
Apr 202424.7% of 97 movements
May 202424.0% of 96 movements
Jun 202411.8% of 85 movements
Jul 202411.4% of 105 movements
Aug 202418.7% of 107 movements
Sep 202420.2% of 94 movements
Oct 202425.0% of 64 movements
Nov 20247.4% of 54 movements
Dec 20247.7% of 91 movements
Jan 202520.2% of 94 movements
Feb 202516.1% of 93 movements
Mar 202510.8% of 93 movements
Apr 20252.1% of 96 movements
May 20258.7% of 92 movements
Jun 202519.2% of 52 movements
Jul 20256.8% of 73 movements
Aug 202512.7% of 118 movements
Sep 202517.8% of 101 movements
Oct 20257.4% of 108 movements
Nov 20256.4% of 109 movements
Dec 202517.2% of 122 movements
Jan 202628.2% of 117 movements
Feb 202615.6% of 90 movements
Mar 202644.1% of 68 movements
Apr 20267.7% of 39 movements — small sample, not ranked
May 20266.2% of 32 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jun 202619.5% of 41 movements — 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.

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 2022Arrivals10.0% of 70 movements8.9% across 713 flightsreturned the next month
Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022Departures78.6% of 70 movements31.7% across 706 flightsreturned after 6 months
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Arrivals22.1% of 86 movements18.0% across 890 flightsstill above it 8 months later
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Departures44.8% of 87 movements41.4% across 884 flightsreturned the next month
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Arrivals10.8% of 93 movements17.7% across 1,068 flightsreturned the next month
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Departures32.3% of 93 movements39.5% across 1,078 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: Jan, 22.2% across 7 months. Lowest median: Apr, 7.7% 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 nJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec201910.9% of 55 movements5.6% of 54 movements18.8% of 64 movements9.5% of 63 movements8.1% of 62 movements5.0% of 60 movements12.7% of 63 movements27.4% of 62 movements20.3% of 59 movements19.0% of 63 movements4.5% of 67 movements16.4% of 67 movements202013.4% of 67 movements30.2% of 63 movements17.5% of 40 movements †suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements10.7% of 28 movements †1.9% of 52 movements12.1% of 58 movements1.9% of 53 movements1.9% of 53 movements7.7% of 52 movements8.1% of 62 movements202222.2% of 72 movements15.8% of 57 movements8.3% of 72 movements6.7% of 60 movements8.1% of 62 movements11.7% of 60 movements10.0% of 70 movements6.1% of 66 movements20.0% of 65 movements18.8% of 64 movements9.4% of 64 movements35.1% of 77 movements202320.7% of 82 movements23.3% of 73 movements19.3% of 83 movements16.9% of 83 movements15.8% of 76 movements6.6% of 76 movements24.7% of 81 movements22.1% of 86 movements22.5% of 89 movements37.2% of 86 movements41.9% of 74 movements43.1% of 72 movements202447.2% of 72 movements30.6% of 62 movements25.0% of 88 movements24.7% of 97 movements24.0% of 96 movements11.8% of 85 movements11.4% of 105 movements18.7% of 107 movements20.2% of 94 movements25.0% of 64 movements7.4% of 54 movements7.7% of 91 movements202520.2% of 94 movements16.1% of 93 movements10.8% of 93 movements2.1% of 96 movements8.7% of 92 movements19.2% of 52 movements6.8% of 73 movements12.7% of 118 movements17.8% of 101 movements7.4% of 108 movements6.4% of 109 movements17.2% of 122 movements202628.2% of 117 movements15.6% of 90 movements44.1% of 68 movements7.7% of 39 movements †6.2% of 32 movements †19.5% of 41 movements †no datano datano datano datano datano data
Month-by-month table: median, observed range and sample
MonthMedianObserved rangeSample
Jan22.2%10.9–47.2%7 months, 552 flights
Feb15.8%5.6–30.6%7 months, 481 flights
Mar18.8%8.3–44.1%7 months, 528 flights
Apr7.7%2.1–24.7%7 months, 498 flights
May8.1%5.0–24.0%7 months, 480 flights
Jun11.7%5.0–19.5%7 months, 431 flights
Jul10.7%6.2–24.7%6 months, 456 flights
Aug15.8%6.1–27.4%6 months, 501 flights
Sep20.1%16.1–22.5%6 months, 470 flights
Oct18.9%4.8–37.2%6 months, 447 flights
Nov8.4%4.5–41.9%6 months, 429 flights
Dec22.1%7.7–43.1%6 months, 492 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: STN ↔ AMMAN, 13.5% of 178 movements. Highest disruption: MAN ↔ AMMAN, 29.1% of 148 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 optionStn ↔ Amman13.5% of 178 flightsLhr ↔ Amman13.8% of 615 flightsLtn ↔ Amman16.4% of 73 flightsMan ↔ Amman29.1% of 148 flights
All route comparisons and sample flags
RouteDisruptionCancellationsSample flag
STN ↔ AMMAN13.5% of 178 movements1.1% of 178 movementsdescriptive comparison
Heathrow ↔ Amman13.8% of 615 movements1.3% of 615 movementsdescriptive comparison
LTN ↔ AMMAN16.4% of 73 movements4.1% of 73 movementsdescriptive comparison
MAN ↔ AMMAN29.1% of 148 movements1.4% of 148 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?

4 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
Heathrow13.8% of 615 movementsdescriptive comparison
Luton16.4% of 73 movementsdescriptive comparison
Manchester28.9% of 149 movementsdescriptive comparison
Stansted13.4% of 179 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

16.1% of 1,018 movements arrivals were disrupted, against 34.6% of 1,021 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 1,018 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

Jordan appears from Jan 2018 to Jun 2026 with 6,353 arrivals.

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

Archive route pairs: 23.

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?

16.1% of 1,018 movements over July 2025 to June 2026.

How often are they cancelled?

1.5% of 1,018 movements at short notice.

How late is late?

16.6–55.1 minutes; delayed denominator 149–436

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.