How often are these flights late or cancelled?
Netherlands
In the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026, 26.1% of 36,862 movements arriving into the UK were disrupted — more than fifteen minutes late or cancelled at short notice.
Put the other way round, 73.9% of 36,862 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
26.1% of 36,862 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26.1% of 36,862 movements | 2.6% of 36,862 movements | 23.4–57.7 minutes; delayed denominator 8,672–19,828 | 0.4% of 36,862 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 36,862 movements passed the three-hour mark.
The ladder shows how many movements crossed each threshold. Cancellations are separate: 2.6% of 36,862 movements.
| Delay | Share and sample | One event per movements |
|---|---|---|
| More than 15 minutes | 23.5% of 36,862 movements | 4.3 |
| More than 30 minutes | 13.3% of 36,862 movements | 7.5 |
| More than 60 minutes | 5.2% of 36,862 movements | 19.1 |
| More than 120 minutes | 1.2% of 36,862 movements | 82.7 |
| More than 180 minutes | 0.4% of 36,862 movements | 271.0 |
| More than 360 minutes | 0.0% of 36,862 movements | 2,835.5 |
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?
1.2% of 36,862 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, 1.8% of 1,085 movements. Worst month: Jun 2022, 47.7% of 3,094 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 3,902 movements |
| Feb 2018 | 20.9% of 3,733 movements |
| Mar 2018 | 24.4% of 4,156 movements |
| Apr 2018 | 21.5% of 3,972 movements |
| May 2018 | 23.5% of 4,111 movements |
| Jun 2018 | 30.8% of 3,917 movements |
| Jul 2018 | 23.5% of 3,918 movements |
| Aug 2018 | 23.0% of 3,895 movements |
| Sep 2018 | 26.4% of 3,804 movements |
| Oct 2018 | 21.2% of 4,051 movements |
| Nov 2018 | 17.6% of 3,390 movements |
| Dec 2018 | 25.4% of 3,493 movements |
| Jan 2019 | 18.3% of 3,941 movements |
| Feb 2019 | 20.2% of 3,739 movements |
| Mar 2019 | 35.4% of 4,206 movements |
| Apr 2019 | 25.7% of 3,894 movements |
| May 2019 | 37.3% of 3,516 movements |
| Jun 2019 | 37.1% of 3,358 movements |
| Jul 2019 | 28.8% of 3,429 movements |
| Aug 2019 | 23.7% of 3,420 movements |
| Sep 2019 | 36.5% of 3,374 movements |
| Oct 2019 | 28.8% of 3,533 movements |
| Nov 2019 | 14.2% of 3,444 movements |
| Dec 2019 | 19.8% of 3,498 movements |
| Jan 2020 | 10.8% of 3,851 movements |
| Feb 2020 | 27.2% of 3,743 movements |
| Mar 2020 | 20.1% of 2,533 movements |
| Apr 2020 | 8.4% of 179 movements |
| May 2020 | 3.7% of 190 movements |
| Jun 2020 | 3.8% of 263 movements |
| Jul 2020 | 3.2% of 628 movements |
| Aug 2020 | 2.3% of 1,294 movements |
| Sep 2020 | 2.5% of 1,314 movements |
| Oct 2020 | 1.8% of 1,085 movements |
| Nov 2020 | 3.2% of 596 movements |
| Dec 2020 | 7.2% of 681 movements |
| Jan 2021 | 19.0% of 538 movements |
| Feb 2021 | suppressed: fewer than twenty movements |
| Mar 2021 | 32.3% of 130 movements |
| Apr 2021 | 16.3% of 410 movements |
| May 2021 | 3.1% of 555 movements |
| Jun 2021 | 7.2% of 665 movements |
| Jul 2021 | 6.5% of 973 movements |
| Aug 2021 | 19.0% of 1,087 movements |
| Sep 2021 | 16.3% of 1,315 movements |
| Oct 2021 | 22.1% of 1,565 movements |
| Nov 2021 | 10.1% of 1,894 movements |
| Dec 2021 | 16.9% of 2,001 movements |
| Jan 2022 | 17.1% of 1,428 movements |
| Feb 2022 | 26.9% of 1,542 movements |
| Mar 2022 | 15.9% of 2,182 movements |
| Apr 2022 | 40.6% of 2,749 movements |
| May 2022 | 41.2% of 3,122 movements |
| Jun 2022 | 47.7% of 3,094 movements |
| Jul 2022 | 39.9% of 2,577 movements |
| Aug 2022 | 26.6% of 2,693 movements |
| Sep 2022 | 45.0% of 2,890 movements |
| Oct 2022 | 25.8% of 2,744 movements |
| Nov 2022 | 16.3% of 2,744 movements |
| Dec 2022 | 33.1% of 2,728 movements |
| Jan 2023 | 17.4% of 2,670 movements |
| Feb 2023 | 12.5% of 2,520 movements |
| Mar 2023 | 28.4% of 2,903 movements |
| Apr 2023 | 24.1% of 2,998 movements |
| May 2023 | 31.0% of 3,231 movements |
| Jun 2023 | 36.0% of 3,148 movements |
| Jul 2023 | 35.7% of 3,096 movements |
| Aug 2023 | 32.4% of 3,138 movements |
| Sep 2023 | 36.6% of 3,241 movements |
| Oct 2023 | 37.9% of 3,471 movements |
| Nov 2023 | 26.5% of 3,310 movements |
| Dec 2023 | 40.3% of 3,318 movements |
| Jan 2024 | 28.6% of 3,028 movements |
| Feb 2024 | 22.8% of 3,116 movements |
| Mar 2024 | 21.9% of 3,418 movements |
| Apr 2024 | 33.4% of 3,243 movements |
| May 2024 | 26.0% of 3,363 movements |
| Jun 2024 | 29.9% of 3,159 movements |
| Jul 2024 | 35.2% of 3,115 movements |
| Aug 2024 | 26.3% of 3,082 movements |
| Sep 2024 | 40.7% of 3,280 movements |
| Oct 2024 | 27.5% of 3,403 movements |
| Nov 2024 | 25.8% of 3,143 movements |
| Dec 2024 | 31.6% of 3,225 movements |
| Jan 2025 | 33.3% of 2,954 movements |
| Feb 2025 | 20.9% of 2,887 movements |
| Mar 2025 | 18.6% of 3,296 movements |
| Apr 2025 | 17.1% of 3,223 movements |
| May 2025 | 23.6% of 3,252 movements |
| Jun 2025 | 26.9% of 2,996 movements |
| Jul 2025 | 35.3% of 3,071 movements |
| Aug 2025 | 30.5% of 3,054 movements |
| Sep 2025 | 41.3% of 3,131 movements |
| Oct 2025 | 30.8% of 3,282 movements |
| Nov 2025 | 17.8% of 3,250 movements |
| Dec 2025 | 20.6% of 3,298 movements |
| Jan 2026 | 36.5% of 2,721 movements |
| Feb 2026 | 18.2% of 2,721 movements |
| Mar 2026 | 17.0% of 3,343 movements |
| Apr 2026 | 16.8% of 3,037 movements |
| May 2026 | 19.9% of 3,041 movements |
| Jun 2026 | 29.7% of 2,913 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 | 3.8% of 263 movements | 21.6% across 34,552 flights | returned the next month |
| Pandemic regime · Jun 2020 | Departures | 4.2% of 263 movements | 22.4% across 34,746 flights | returned the next month |
| Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022 | Arrivals | 39.9% of 2,577 movements | 23.4% across 22,952 flights | returned after 4 months |
| Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022 | Departures | 49.9% of 2,579 movements | 26.7% across 22,942 flights | returned after 4 months |
| NATS system failure · Aug 2023 | Arrivals | 32.4% of 3,138 movements | 27.7% across 34,365 flights | returned after 3 months |
| NATS system failure · Aug 2023 | Departures | 37.3% of 3,137 movements | 31.6% across 34,381 flights | returned after 3 months |
| Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025 | Arrivals | 18.6% of 3,296 movements | 29.4% across 38,272 flights | returned the next month |
| Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025 | Departures | 21.4% of 3,289 movements | 33.1% across 38,249 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: Sep, 38.6% across 6 months. Lowest median: Nov, 17.7% 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 | 19.6% | 17.1–36.5% | 7 months, 20,644 flights |
| Feb | 20.9% | 12.5–26.9% | 7 months, 20,258 flights |
| Mar | 21.9% | 15.9–35.4% | 7 months, 23,504 flights |
| Apr | 24.1% | 16.8–40.6% | 7 months, 23,116 flights |
| May | 26.0% | 19.9–41.2% | 7 months, 23,636 flights |
| Jun | 30.8% | 26.9–47.7% | 7 months, 22,585 flights |
| Jul | 35.3% | 23.5–39.9% | 6 months, 19,206 flights |
| Aug | 26.4% | 23.0–32.4% | 6 months, 19,282 flights |
| Sep | 38.6% | 26.4–45.0% | 6 months, 19,720 flights |
| Oct | 28.2% | 21.2–37.9% | 6 months, 20,484 flights |
| Nov | 17.7% | 14.2–26.5% | 6 months, 19,281 flights |
| Dec | 28.5% | 19.8–40.3% | 6 months, 19,560 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 ↔ ROTTERDAM, 10.0% of 209 movements. Highest disruption: BFS ↔ AMS, 41.3% of 213 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STN ↔ ROTTERDAM | 10.0% of 209 movements | 1.4% of 209 movements | descriptive comparison |
| London City ↔ Amsterdam | 16.7% of 3,758 movements | 2.8% of 3,758 movements | descriptive comparison |
| EXT ↔ AMS | 18.5% of 356 movements | 4.2% of 356 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Belfast City (George Best) ↔ Amsterdam | 18.9% of 661 movements | 2.1% of 661 movements | descriptive comparison |
| London City ↔ Rotterdam | 19.3% of 875 movements | 2.3% of 875 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Cardiff Wales ↔ Amsterdam | 22.2% of 729 movements | 4.1% of 729 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Aberdeen ↔ Amsterdam | 22.9% of 1,715 movements | 4.2% of 1,715 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Teesside International Airport ↔ Amsterdam | 23.0% of 846 movements | 4.3% of 846 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Southampton ↔ Amsterdam | 23.3% of 789 movements | 3.0% of 789 movements | descriptive comparison |
| LPL ↔ AMS | 23.7% of 392 movements | 2.3% of 392 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Leeds Bradford ↔ Amsterdam | 24.3% of 1,130 movements | 3.5% of 1,130 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Heathrow ↔ Amsterdam | 24.4% of 5,655 movements | 2.6% of 5,655 movements | descriptive comparison |
| STN ↔ AMS | 25.4% of 493 movements | 2.2% of 493 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Glasgow ↔ Amsterdam | 25.7% of 1,560 movements | 2.2% of 1,560 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Birmingham ↔ Amsterdam | 26.0% of 2,325 movements | 2.9% of 2,325 movements | descriptive comparison |
| SEN ↔ AMS | 26.8% of 250 movements | 0.4% of 250 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Stansted ↔ Eindhoven | 27.1% of 1,069 movements | 0.3% of 1,069 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick ↔ Amsterdam | 27.3% of 1,821 movements | 2.1% of 1,821 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Edinburgh ↔ Amsterdam | 27.9% of 2,433 movements | 2.7% of 2,433 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Newcastle ↔ Amsterdam | 28.0% of 1,829 movements | 1.6% of 1,829 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Luton ↔ Amsterdam | 30.2% of 1,653 movements | 1.7% of 1,653 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Bristol ↔ Amsterdam | 30.4% of 2,208 movements | 2.4% of 2,208 movements | descriptive comparison |
| MAN ↔ EINDHOVEN | 32.2% of 87 movements | no events in 87 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Manchester ↔ Amsterdam | 38.4% of 3,777 movements | 2.4% of 3,777 movements | descriptive comparison |
| BFS ↔ AMS | 41.3% of 213 movements | 2.3% of 213 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.
Which UK airports appear in this record?
21 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aberdeen | 22.9% of 1,715 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Belfast International | 41.1% of 214 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Belfast City (George Best) | 18.9% of 661 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Birmingham | 26.0% of 2,325 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Bristol | 30.4% of 2,208 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Cardiff Wales | 22.2% of 729 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Edinburgh | 27.9% of 2,433 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Exeter | 18.5% of 356 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Glasgow | 25.8% of 1,564 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Leeds Bradford | 24.3% of 1,130 movements | descriptive comparison |
| London City | 17.2% of 4,633 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Gatwick | 27.3% of 1,821 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Heathrow | 24.5% of 5,656 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Liverpool (John Lennon) | 24.3% of 395 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Luton | 30.2% of 1,653 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Manchester | 38.3% of 3,864 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Teesside International Airport | 23.0% of 846 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Newcastle | 28.0% of 1,829 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Southend | 26.8% of 250 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Southampton | 23.4% of 790 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Stansted | 24.6% of 1,771 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
26.1% of 36,862 movements arrivals were disrupted, against 30.2% of 36,855 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 36,862 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
Netherlands appears from Jan 2018 to Jun 2026 with 278,769 arrivals.
The bounds describe the published record, not every commercial service. Final point is not necessarily a nonstop destination.
Archive route pairs: 83.
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?
26.1% of 36,862 movements over July 2025 to June 2026.
How often are they cancelled?
2.6% of 36,862 movements at short notice.
How late is late?
23.4–57.7 minutes; delayed denominator 8,672–19,828
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.