How often are these flights late or cancelled?
Slovak Republic
In the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026, 19.9% of 1,832 movements arriving into the UK were disrupted — more than fifteen minutes late or cancelled at short notice.
Put the other way round, 80.1% of 1,832 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
19.9% of 1,832 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19.9% of 1,832 movements | 0.4% of 1,832 movements | 28.0–62.3 minutes; delayed denominator 357–731 | 0.8% of 1,832 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?
0.8% of 1,832 movements passed the three-hour mark.
The ladder shows how many movements crossed each threshold. Cancellations are separate: 0.4% of 1,832 movements.
| Delay | Share and sample | One event per movements |
|---|---|---|
| More than 15 minutes | 19.5% of 1,832 movements | 5.1 |
| More than 30 minutes | 12.2% of 1,832 movements | 8.2 |
| More than 60 minutes | 4.9% of 1,832 movements | 20.6 |
| More than 120 minutes | 1.3% of 1,832 movements | 76.3 |
| More than 180 minutes | 0.8% of 1,832 movements | 130.9 |
| More than 360 minutes | 0.1% of 1,832 movements | 1,832.0 |
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?
1.3% of 1,832 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: Sep 2020, 4.0% of 99 movements. Worst month: Jul 2022, 58.0% of 138 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 | 21.9% of 151 movements |
| Feb 2018 | 19.9% of 136 movements |
| Mar 2018 | 16.7% of 162 movements |
| Apr 2018 | 15.0% of 180 movements |
| May 2018 | 28.7% of 178 movements |
| Jun 2018 | 31.9% of 166 movements |
| Jul 2018 | 35.1% of 171 movements |
| Aug 2018 | 32.4% of 170 movements |
| Sep 2018 | 19.0% of 163 movements |
| Oct 2018 | 19.8% of 167 movements |
| Nov 2018 | 11.5% of 157 movements |
| Dec 2018 | 32.5% of 163 movements |
| Jan 2019 | 31.5% of 165 movements |
| Feb 2019 | 16.6% of 145 movements |
| Mar 2019 | 17.8% of 163 movements |
| Apr 2019 | 11.0% of 172 movements |
| May 2019 | 14.1% of 185 movements |
| Jun 2019 | 23.6% of 178 movements |
| Jul 2019 | 26.3% of 179 movements |
| Aug 2019 | 19.0% of 184 movements |
| Sep 2019 | 17.4% of 172 movements |
| Oct 2019 | 20.3% of 177 movements |
| Nov 2019 | 7.9% of 140 movements |
| Dec 2019 | 17.3% of 168 movements |
| Jan 2020 | 17.4% of 155 movements |
| Feb 2020 | 23.2% of 142 movements |
| Mar 2020 | 47.4% of 97 movements |
| Apr 2020 | suppressed: fewer than twenty movements |
| May 2020 | suppressed: fewer than twenty movements |
| Jun 2020 | suppressed: fewer than twenty movements |
| Jul 2020 | 43.8% of 48 movements — small sample, not ranked |
| Aug 2020 | 8.1% of 111 movements |
| Sep 2020 | 4.0% of 99 movements |
| Oct 2020 | 7.0% of 71 movements |
| Nov 2020 | no events in 28 movements — small sample, not ranked |
| Dec 2020 | 31.9% of 47 movements — small sample, not ranked |
| Jan 2021 | 31.4% of 35 movements — small sample, not ranked |
| Feb 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 | 13.6% of 66 movements |
| Jul 2021 | 14.3% of 84 movements |
| Aug 2021 | 21.4% of 131 movements |
| Sep 2021 | 12.6% of 135 movements |
| Oct 2021 | 8.5% of 142 movements |
| Nov 2021 | 13.6% of 81 movements |
| Dec 2021 | 24.0% of 121 movements |
| Jan 2022 | 17.3% of 52 movements |
| Feb 2022 | 25.6% of 82 movements |
| Mar 2022 | 23.7% of 114 movements |
| Apr 2022 | 34.8% of 135 movements |
| May 2022 | 40.3% of 144 movements |
| Jun 2022 | 51.8% of 141 movements |
| Jul 2022 | 58.0% of 138 movements |
| Aug 2022 | 39.1% of 138 movements |
| Sep 2022 | 43.2% of 139 movements |
| Oct 2022 | 36.9% of 149 movements |
| Nov 2022 | 22.1% of 122 movements |
| Dec 2022 | 54.5% of 134 movements |
| Jan 2023 | 34.1% of 132 movements |
| Feb 2023 | 24.2% of 120 movements |
| Mar 2023 | 16.3% of 135 movements |
| Apr 2023 | 27.3% of 143 movements |
| May 2023 | 19.7% of 147 movements |
| Jun 2023 | 31.8% of 132 movements |
| Jul 2023 | 33.8% of 136 movements |
| Aug 2023 | 31.4% of 140 movements |
| Sep 2023 | 21.6% of 134 movements |
| Oct 2023 | 28.5% of 144 movements |
| Nov 2023 | 19.4% of 139 movements |
| Dec 2023 | 40.1% of 162 movements |
| Jan 2024 | 27.9% of 154 movements |
| Feb 2024 | 12.7% of 134 movements |
| Mar 2024 | 8.6% of 152 movements |
| Apr 2024 | 21.6% of 139 movements |
| May 2024 | 24.6% of 134 movements |
| Jun 2024 | 31.3% of 134 movements |
| Jul 2024 | 35.6% of 135 movements |
| Aug 2024 | 28.3% of 138 movements |
| Sep 2024 | 32.1% of 137 movements |
| Oct 2024 | 18.9% of 148 movements |
| Nov 2024 | 17.7% of 164 movements |
| Dec 2024 | 37.4% of 187 movements |
| Jan 2025 | 31.5% of 178 movements |
| Feb 2025 | 11.8% of 169 movements |
| Mar 2025 | 12.6% of 175 movements |
| Apr 2025 | 16.4% of 177 movements |
| May 2025 | 18.3% of 180 movements |
| Jun 2025 | 19.5% of 159 movements |
| Jul 2025 | 25.0% of 164 movements |
| Aug 2025 | 22.4% of 161 movements |
| Sep 2025 | 27.7% of 148 movements |
| Oct 2025 | 19.8% of 177 movements |
| Nov 2025 | 12.1% of 141 movements |
| Dec 2025 | 11.8% of 152 movements |
| Jan 2026 | 20.4% of 113 movements |
| Feb 2026 | 15.9% of 132 movements |
| Mar 2026 | 6.5% of 155 movements |
| Apr 2026 | 18.0% of 167 movements |
| May 2026 | 18.9% of 169 movements |
| Jun 2026 | 39.9% of 153 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 | 58.0% of 138 movements | 24.0% across 1,362 flights | returned after 4 months |
| Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022 | Departures | 58.1% of 136 movements | 20.0% across 1,370 flights | returned after 7 months |
| NATS system failure · Aug 2023 | Arrivals | 31.4% of 140 movements | 31.9% across 1,627 flights | returned the next month |
| NATS system failure · Aug 2023 | Departures | 31.4% of 140 movements | 32.6% across 1,620 flights | returned the next month |
| Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025 | Arrivals | 12.6% of 175 movements | 24.9% across 1,815 flights | returned the next month |
| Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025 | Departures | 12.6% of 175 movements | 22.1% across 1,812 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: Dec, 35.0% across 6 months. Lowest median: Nov, 14.9% 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 | 27.9% | 17.3–34.1% | 7 months, 945 flights |
| Feb | 16.6% | 11.8–25.6% | 7 months, 918 flights |
| Mar | 16.3% | 6.5–23.7% | 7 months, 1,056 flights |
| Apr | 18.0% | 11.0–34.8% | 7 months, 1,113 flights |
| May | 19.7% | 14.1–40.3% | 7 months, 1,137 flights |
| Jun | 31.8% | 19.5–51.8% | 7 months, 1,063 flights |
| Jul | 34.5% | 25.0–58.0% | 6 months, 923 flights |
| Aug | 29.8% | 19.0–39.1% | 6 months, 931 flights |
| Sep | 24.7% | 17.4–43.2% | 6 months, 893 flights |
| Oct | 20.1% | 18.9–36.9% | 6 months, 962 flights |
| Nov | 14.9% | 7.9–22.1% | 6 months, 863 flights |
| Dec | 35.0% | 11.8–54.5% | 6 months, 966 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: LBA ↔ BRATISLAVA, 3.3% of 60 movements. Highest disruption: STN ↔ KOSICE, 38.2% of 241 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LBA ↔ BRATISLAVA | 3.3% of 60 movements | 1.7% of 60 movements | descriptive comparison |
| LTN ↔ KOSICE | 11.4% of 219 movements | 0.9% of 219 movements | descriptive comparison |
| LTN ↔ BRATISLAVA | 15.7% of 305 movements | 1.0% of 305 movements | descriptive comparison |
| LPL ↔ KOSICE | 15.9% of 126 movements | 0.8% of 126 movements | descriptive comparison |
| LTN ↔ TATRY-POPRAD | 16.3% of 104 movements | no events in 104 movements | descriptive comparison |
| EDI ↔ BRATISLAVA | 17.3% of 139 movements | no events in 139 movements | descriptive comparison |
| MAN ↔ BRATISLAVA | 20.4% of 216 movements | no events in 216 movements | descriptive comparison |
| STN ↔ BRATISLAVA | 20.8% of 399 movements | no events in 399 movements | descriptive comparison |
| STN ↔ KOSICE | 38.2% of 241 movements | 0.4% of 241 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?
6 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edinburgh | 17.3% of 139 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Leeds Bradford | 3.3% of 60 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Liverpool (John Lennon) | 15.9% of 126 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Luton | 14.3% of 628 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Manchester | 20.4% of 216 movements | descriptive comparison |
| Stansted | 27.9% of 657 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
19.9% of 1,832 movements arrivals were disrupted, against 18.1% of 1,826 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
0.8% of 1,832 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
Slovak Republic appears from Jan 2018 to Jun 2026 with 13,433 arrivals.
The bounds describe the published record, not every commercial service. Final point is not necessarily a nonstop destination.
Archive route pairs: 31.
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?
19.9% of 1,832 movements over July 2025 to June 2026.
How often are they cancelled?
0.4% of 1,832 movements at short notice.
How late is late?
28.0–62.3 minutes; delayed denominator 357–731
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.