UK FLIGHT DELAY INDEX

derived from CAA punctuality statistics for UK reporting airports

How often are these flights late or cancelled?

BFS ↔ ARRECIFE

In the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026, 24.7% of 518 movements arriving into BFS were disrupted — that is, they landed more than fifteen minutes late or were cancelled at short notice.

Put the other way round, 75.3% of 518 movements arrived on time by the industry's fifteen-minute standard. Severe delays were rarer: about one arrival in every 130 crossed the three-hour mark. Lower is better on every figure on this page. These numbers describe what happened on the route; they are not a prediction for any individual flight.

Definitions, denominators and limits
  • “Disrupted” means an arrival more than fifteen minutes late or a short-notice cancellation. The denominator is operated movements plus short-notice cancellations.
  • Arrivals into the UK airport only; all published carriers.
  • Crossing three hours is one condition for compensation, but monthly data cannot establish any individual passenger’s rights.
  • Delay cause is not published in the open data.
  • Source: CAA punctuality statistics · snapshot 17/08/2026 10:24 · method route-record-v2.1.

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

In the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026, 24.7% of 518 movements were disrupted and no events in 518 movements were cancelled at short notice.

When a flight was late, it was typically late by the range shown below. The delay is given as a range, not a single number, because the regulator rounds its published percentages and never says how many flights landed exactly on time.

Disruption shareShort-notice cancellationsAverage delay among delayed flights only — boundsOperations
24.7% of 518 movementsno events in 518 movements36.1–74.8 min; N of delayed flights=128–251518
Definitions, denominators and limits

The bounds account for CAA rounding and the unknown number of zero delays. A point average across all operated movements, including punctual ones, would answer a different question and is not used here.

When it is late, how late is it?

Most delays here are short. The ladder below shows how many arrivals crossed each threshold, from a quarter of an hour up to six hours; each rung can only be smaller than the one above it.

Cancellations are counted separately: no events in 518 movements. “One in N” means how many arrivals you would typically see between events at that level.

Delay threshold ladder; count and share of known operations15 min24.7%30 min14.3%60 min6.8%120 min1.7%180 min0.8%360 min0.4%
Delay ladder table: share, movements and one-in-N
DelayShare and nMovementsOne delay in every N operations
>15 min24.7% of 518 movements1284.0
>30 min14.3% of 518 movements747.0
>60 min6.8% of 518 movements3514.8
>120 min1.7% of 518 movements957.6
>180 min0.8% of 518 movements4129.5
>360 min0.4% of 518 movements2259.0
Definitions, denominators and limits

CAA counts delays strictly greater than each threshold, so exactly three hours is inseparable from the previous bucket. The ladder describes the archive, not a forecast.

Slightly late, or occasionally a disaster?

This route runs late less often than most, but when it does go wrong it tends to go badly wrong: its long delays are heavier than on the typical UK route.

The histogram below counts every recorded arrival, from more than fifteen minutes early through to more than six hours late. A tall bar near the middle and a thin right-hand tail is the healthy shape.

Nine delay buckets, minutes; share of all recorded operations>15 early12824.7%15–1 early13926.8%0–15 late12323.7%16–305410.4%31–60397.5%61…120265.0%121…18051.0%181…36020.4%>36020.4%D=518
Definitions, denominators and limits

Ratio of the long tail to sixteen-to-sixty-minute delays: 0.0430; corpus median 0.0217; 2056 routes in the corpus. The shape is compared conditionally among delays; the class name does not measure absolute frequency. Histogram counts and shares cover all recorded operations including unmatched records; reconstructed uniquely.

Has this route got better or worse since 2018?

Extremes are not determined on small or ambiguous cells.

The line traces every month in the archive; lower is better. Gaps are months with no published data, never zeros. The 2020 and 2021 readings reflect the pandemic, not normal service.

Monthly disruption share; gaps mean no published dataJan 2018: 21.9%; sample: 322018Feb 2018: 21.4%; sample: 28Mar 2018: 16.1%; sample: 31Apr 2018: 25.8%; sample: 31May 2018: 18.5%; sample: 27Jun 2018: 13.8%; sample: 29Jul 2018: 13.3%; sample: 30Aug 2018: 6.2%; sample: 32Sep 2018: 16.7%; sample: 30Oct 2018: 48.1%; sample: 27Nov 2018: 20.6%; sample: 34Dec 2018: 15.6%; sample: 32Jan 2019: 46.9%; sample: 322019Feb 2019: 21.4%; sample: 28Mar 2019: 35.5%; sample: 31Apr 2019: 96.2%; sample: 26May 2019: 20.8%; sample: 24Jun 2019: 12.0%; sample: 25Jul 2019: 11.5%; sample: 26Aug 2019: 10.7%; sample: 28Sep 2019: 8.0%; sample: 25Oct 2019: 22.2%; sample: 27Nov 2019: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Dec 2019: 34.8%; sample: 23Jan 2020: 20.0%; sample: 202020Feb 2020: 42.9%; sample: 21Mar 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty 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: 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: no data×May 2021: no data×Jun 2021: no data×Jul 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Aug 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Sep 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Oct 2021: 13.6%; sample: 22Nov 2021: 15.4%; sample: 26Dec 2021: 4.5%; sample: 22Jan 2022: 13.0%; sample: 232022Feb 2022: 15.0%; sample: 20Mar 2022: 20.0%; sample: 25Apr 2022: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×May 2022: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jun 2022: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jul 2022: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Aug 2022: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Sep 2022: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Oct 2022: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Nov 2022: 7.7%; sample: 26Dec 2022: 20.8%; sample: 24Jan 2023: 12.5%; sample: 242023Feb 2023: 25.0%; sample: 20Mar 2023: 34.8%; sample: 23Apr 2023: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×May 2023: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jun 2023: 15.0%; sample: 20Jul 2023: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Aug 2023: 30.0%; sample: 20Sep 2023: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Oct 2023: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Nov 2023: 25.6%; sample: 39Dec 2023: 17.6%; sample: 34Jan 2024: 15.2%; sample: 332024Feb 2024: 30.8%; sample: 39Mar 2024: 46.3%; sample: 41Apr 2024: 8.3%; sample: 36May 2024: 7.1%; sample: 28Jun 2024: 12.5%; sample: 32Jul 2024: 6.5%; sample: 31Aug 2024: 8.8%; sample: 34Sep 2024: 25.7%; sample: 35Oct 2024: 24.2%; sample: 33Nov 2024: 57.9%; sample: 38Dec 2024: 39.6%; sample: 48Jan 2025: 47.7%; sample: 442025Feb 2025: 32.4%; sample: 37Mar 2025: 33.3%; sample: 42Apr 2025: 17.8%; sample: 45May 2025: 25.0%; sample: 40Jun 2025: 22.7%; sample: 44Jul 2025: 29.5%; sample: 44Aug 2025: 15.9%; sample: 44Sep 2025: 14.6%; sample: 41Oct 2025: 21.1%; sample: 38Nov 2025: 30.4%; sample: 46Dec 2025: 34.8%; sample: 46Jan 2026: 34.9%; sample: 432026Feb 2026: 17.5%; sample: 40Mar 2026: 30.4%; sample: 46Apr 2026: 19.6%; sample: 46May 2026: 33.3%; sample: 42Jun 2026: 11.9%; sample: 42Pandemic regime Jun 2020Summer 2022 breakdown Jul 2022NATS system failure Aug 2023Heathrow fire closure Mar 2025100%0%
Every month since 2018, including gaps and suppressed cells
MonthDisruption on arrivals
Jan 201821.9% of 32 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 201821.4% of 28 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 201816.1% of 31 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 201825.8% of 31 movements — small sample, not ranked
May 201818.5% of 27 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jun 201813.8% of 29 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jul 201813.3% of 30 movements — small sample, not ranked
Aug 20186.2% of 32 movements — small sample, not ranked
Sep 201816.7% of 30 movements — small sample, not ranked
Oct 201848.1% of 27 movements — small sample, not ranked
Nov 201820.6% of 34 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 201815.6% of 32 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 201946.9% of 32 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 201921.4% of 28 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 201935.5% of 31 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 201996.2% of 26 movements — small sample, not ranked
May 201920.8% of 24 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jun 201912.0% of 25 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jul 201911.5% of 26 movements — small sample, not ranked
Aug 201910.7% of 28 movements — small sample, not ranked
Sep 20198.0% of 25 movements — small sample, not ranked
Oct 201922.2% of 27 movements — small sample, not ranked
Nov 2019suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Dec 201934.8% of 23 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 202020.0% of 20 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202042.9% of 21 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
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 2021no data
May 2021no data
Jun 2021no data
Jul 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Aug 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Sep 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Oct 202113.6% of 22 movements — small sample, not ranked
Nov 202115.4% of 26 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 20214.5% of 22 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 202213.0% of 23 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202215.0% of 20 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202220.0% of 25 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
May 2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jun 2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jul 2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Aug 2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Sep 2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Oct 2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Nov 20227.7% of 26 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202220.8% of 24 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 202312.5% of 24 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202325.0% of 20 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202334.8% of 23 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 2023suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
May 2023suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jun 202315.0% of 20 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jul 2023suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Aug 202330.0% of 20 movements — small sample, not ranked
Sep 2023suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Oct 2023suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Nov 202325.6% of 39 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202317.6% of 34 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 202415.2% of 33 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202430.8% of 39 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202446.3% of 41 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 20248.3% of 36 movements — small sample, not ranked
May 20247.1% of 28 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jun 202412.5% of 32 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jul 20246.5% of 31 movements — small sample, not ranked
Aug 20248.8% of 34 movements — small sample, not ranked
Sep 202425.7% of 35 movements — small sample, not ranked
Oct 202424.2% of 33 movements — small sample, not ranked
Nov 202457.9% of 38 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202439.6% of 48 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 202547.7% of 44 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202532.4% of 37 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202533.3% of 42 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 202517.8% of 45 movements — small sample, not ranked
May 202525.0% of 40 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jun 202522.7% of 44 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jul 202529.5% of 44 movements — small sample, not ranked
Aug 202515.9% of 44 movements — small sample, not ranked
Sep 202514.6% of 41 movements — small sample, not ranked
Oct 202521.1% of 38 movements — small sample, not ranked
Nov 202530.4% of 46 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202534.8% of 46 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 202634.9% of 43 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202617.5% of 40 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202630.4% of 46 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 202619.6% of 46 movements — small sample, not ranked
May 202633.3% of 42 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jun 202611.9% of 42 movements — small sample, not ranked

What did the big disruptions actually do here?

Each named event below is shown against this route’s own baseline for the twelve months before it, and against how long the route took to get back to that baseline.

A month worse than baseline is not proof the named event caused it: the open data carry no delay-cause field at all. Some events sit near the edge of the archive, which limits how long a recovery can be traced.

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 2022Arrivalssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022Departuressuppressed: fewer than twenty movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Arrivals30.0% of 20 movements — small sample, not rankedno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Departures40.0% of 20 movements — small sample, not rankedno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Arrivals33.3% of 42 movements — small sample, not ranked26.4% across 437 flightsreturned the next month
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Departures26.2% of 42 movements — small sample, not ranked25.4% across 438 flightsreturned the next month
Definitions, denominators and limits

The baseline is the unweighted mean share over the twelve preceding calendar months. The return window is the following eight months, up to the end of the archive. Return means the first observed value at or below the baseline; it is not the duration of the disruption itself. If the event month is already below the baseline, counting still starts the month after. Gaps and suppressed cells are not treated as zeros or as recovery.

Which time of year has historically been hardest?

March has historically been the hardest month on this route: in a typical March, 33.3% of arrivals were disrupted, measured across 7 Marchs in the archive. August has been the calmest, at 10.7% across 5 Augusts.

Even March has ranged from 16.1% to 46.3% in different years, so this is a record of what happened, not a forecast of what will. Lower is better throughout.

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 nJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec201946.9% of 32 movements †21.4% of 28 movements †35.5% of 31 movements †96.2% of 26 movements †20.8% of 24 movements †12.0% of 25 movements †11.5% of 26 movements †10.7% of 28 movements †8.0% of 25 movements †22.2% of 27 movements †suppressed: fewer than twenty movements34.8% of 23 movements †202020.0% of 20 movements †42.9% of 21 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 movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementsno datano datano datasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements13.6% of 22 movements †15.4% of 26 movements †4.5% of 22 movements †202213.0% of 23 movements †15.0% of 20 movements †20.0% of 25 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 movements7.7% of 26 movements †20.8% of 24 movements †202312.5% of 24 movements †25.0% of 20 movements †34.8% of 23 movements †suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements15.0% of 20 movements †suppressed: fewer than twenty movements30.0% of 20 movements †suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements25.6% of 39 movements †17.6% of 34 movements †202415.2% of 33 movements †30.8% of 39 movements †46.3% of 41 movements †8.3% of 36 movements †7.1% of 28 movements †12.5% of 32 movements †6.5% of 31 movements †8.8% of 34 movements †25.7% of 35 movements †24.2% of 33 movements †57.9% of 38 movements †39.6% of 48 movements †202547.7% of 44 movements †32.4% of 37 movements †33.3% of 42 movements †17.8% of 45 movements †25.0% of 40 movements †22.7% of 44 movements †29.5% of 44 movements †15.9% of 44 movements †14.6% of 41 movements †21.1% of 38 movements †30.4% of 46 movements †34.8% of 46 movements †202634.9% of 43 movements †17.5% of 40 movements †30.4% of 46 movements †19.6% of 46 movements †33.3% of 42 movements †11.9% of 42 movements †no datano datano datano datano datano data
Month-by-month table: median, observed range and sample
MonthMedianObserved rangeSample
Jan21.9%12.5–47.7%7 months, 231 flights
Feb21.4%15.0–32.4%7 months, 212 flights
Mar33.3%16.1–46.3%7 months, 239 flights
Apr19.6%8.3–96.2%5 months, 184 flights
May20.8%7.1–33.3%5 months, 161 flights
Jun13.1%11.9–22.7%6 months, 192 flights
Jul12.4%6.5–29.5%4 months, 131 flights
Aug10.7%6.2–30.0%5 months, 158 flights
Sep15.7%8.0–25.7%4 months, 131 flights
Oct23.2%21.1–48.1%4 months, 125 flights
Nov25.6%7.7–57.9%5 months, 183 flights
Dec27.8%15.6–39.6%6 months, 207 flights
Definitions, denominators and limits

The matrix shows the last eight calendar years, including an incomplete final year; the start of the archive is kept in the history above. Seasonal summaries use the whole available archive, excluding the pandemic regime 2020–2021; this is an observed range, not a forecast. Zero events, missing data and suppressed cells are marked separately. † marks a small sample, described but not ranked. For ranges the colour follows the upper bound.

Which airline has the better record here?

On the published record there is no clear winner: Jet2.Com 21.0% of 243 movements, Tui Airways 24.3% of 37 movements — small sample, not ranked, Ryanair Uk 26.4% of 106 movements. The gap between them sits inside sampling noise.

Figures cover arrivals, July 2025 to June 2026; lower is better in every column. Carriers with fewer than twenty published flights are suppressed rather than shown as zero. The page makes no ranking: the operations behind these shares are not matched for aircraft, time of day or season.

Observed disruption share by optionEasyjet Uk30.3% of 132 flightsJet2.Com21.0% of 243 flightsRyanair Uk26.4% of 106 flightsTui Airways †24.3% of 37 flights
Airline comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
AirlineOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Aer Lingussuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Easyjet Airlinesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Easyjet Uk13230.3% of 132 movementsno events in 132 movements0.8% of 132 movementsdescriptive comparison
Jet2.Com24321.0% of 243 movementsno events in 243 movements0.8% of 243 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ryanairsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Ryanair Uk10626.4% of 106 movementsno events in 106 movements0.9% of 106 movementsdescriptive comparison
Thomas Cook Airlinessuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Tui Airways3724.3% of 37 movements — small sample, not rankedno events in 37 movements — small sample, not rankedno events in 37 movements — small sample, not rankedsmall sample; not ranked
Tui Fly Nordicsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed

The noise check is a descriptive approximation assuming independent operations. Delay correlation and mix differences are not estimated; no ranking is derived.

Would another UK airport have been better?

Among UK airports flying to this city with enough flights to publish, SEN had the lowest disruption share at 21.0% of 62 movements and CWL the highest at 51.9% of 104 movements. This route sits at 24.7% of 518 movements.

Each figure is arrivals into that UK airport, all carriers combined, over the same twelve months. It is a historical record, not a recommendation about where to fly from, and it says nothing about getting to or from each airport on the ground.

Observed disruption share by optionBhx ↔ Arrecife27.6% of 782 flightsBoh ↔ Arrecife22.4% of 277 flightsBrs ↔ Arrecife31.2% of 811 flightsCwl ↔ Arrecife51.9% of 104 flightsEdi ↔ Arrecife37.3% of 644 flightsEma ↔ Arrecife32.1% of 677 flightsExt ↔ Arrecife38.3% of 94 flightsGla ↔ Arrecife34.9% of 438 flights
Airport comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
Other UK airport to the same cityOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Bhx ↔ Arrecife78227.6% of 782 movementsno events in 782 movements0.9% of 782 movementsdescriptive comparison
Boh ↔ Arrecife27722.4% of 277 movements0.4% of 277 movementsno events in 277 movementsdescriptive comparison
Brs ↔ Arrecife81131.2% of 811 movementsno events in 811 movements0.2% of 811 movementsdescriptive comparison
Cwl ↔ Arrecife10451.9% of 104 movementsno events in 104 movements1.9% of 104 movementsdescriptive comparison
Doncaster-Sheffield ↔ Arrecifesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Edi ↔ Arrecife64437.3% of 644 movements0.6% of 644 movementsno events in 644 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ema ↔ Arrecife67732.1% of 677 movements0.3% of 677 movements0.4% of 677 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ext ↔ Arrecife9438.3% of 94 movementsno events in 94 movementsno events in 94 movementsdescriptive comparison
Gla ↔ Arrecife43834.9% of 438 movementsno events in 438 movements1.4% of 438 movementsdescriptive comparison
Iom ↔ Arrecifesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Jer ↔ Arrecifesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Lba ↔ Arrecife46621.5% of 466 movements0.2% of 466 movements0.6% of 466 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lgw ↔ Arrecife1,40939.5% of 1,409 movements0.6% of 1,409 movements0.7% of 1,409 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lhr ↔ Arrecifesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Lpl ↔ Arrecife58524.8% of 585 movements0.2% of 585 movements0.2% of 585 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ltn ↔ Arrecife50236.3% of 502 movements0.6% of 502 movements0.6% of 502 movementsdescriptive comparison
Man ↔ Arrecife1,47440.9% of 1,474 movements0.3% of 1,474 movements0.3% of 1,474 movementsdescriptive comparison
Mme ↔ Arrecifesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Ncl ↔ Arrecife52231.4% of 522 movementsno events in 522 movements0.6% of 522 movementsdescriptive comparison
Sen ↔ Arrecife6221.0% of 62 movementsno events in 62 movementsno events in 62 movementsdescriptive comparison
Stn ↔ Arrecife87024.3% of 870 movements0.1% of 870 movements0.9% of 870 movementsdescriptive comparison

Does the direction you are flying change anything?

Yes: arrivals into BFS ran 24.7% of 518 movements disrupted, departures 21.0% of 519 movements.

It matters legally as well as practically: a departure from the UK and an arrival into the UK on a UK or EU carrier fall under different conditions, and a departure delay does not establish a late arrival at your final destination.

Arrivals and departures side by side
DirectionDisruptionCancellationsOver three hours
Arrivals into BFS24.7% of 518 movementsno events in 518 movements0.8% of 518 movements
Departures from BFS21.0% of 519 movementsno events in 519 movements0.2% of 519 movements
Definitions, denominators and limits

CAA conditions on delays and cancellations.

How many flights here crossed the three-hour mark?

The table below counts arrivals and departures that ran more than three hours late — the threshold that is one of the conditions for compensation — across the whole archive and within the last six years.

The pound figure beside each count is arithmetic, not money anyone received: it is the count multiplied by the maximum statutory amount for this distance band. Whether any of those flights actually qualified is not knowable from this data.

DirectionWindowFlights over three hoursArithmetic statutory ceiling
ArrivalsWhole archive · Jan 2018–Jun 202624 flights out of 2,55324 × £350 = £8,400
ArrivalsLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 202617 flights out of 1,82317 × £350 = £5,950
DeparturesWhole archive · Jan 2018–Jun 202613 flights out of 2,54613 × £350 = £4,550
DeparturesLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 20269 flights out of 1,8209 × £350 = £3,150
Definitions, denominators and limits

Full formula: the count is the sum of the two tail buckets across months, carriers and service types in one direction; the ceiling is that count multiplied by the maximum statutory amount for the distance band. The condition is: if every such delay had been the carrier's fault and a claim had been filed on every one of them.

This is conditional arithmetic over operations: passenger numbers, legal applicability and the number of claims are all unknown. For departures it is an arithmetic scenario only, because arrival at the final point is not observed. For long routes the maximum ceiling is used; any reduction in the payable amount is not calculated.

The archive window is counted from the last month of data, not from today: this is not a limitation check for an individual case. The CAA states six years for England and Wales and five for Scotland. CAA: time limits and how to complain. Information, not a legal service.

The facts about this route

Route reference table: codes, distance, frequency, archive span
FieldValue
UK airportBELFAST INTERNATIONAL · BFS
Final point / countryARRECIFE / SPAIN(CANARY ISLANDS)
Final point codesACE / GCRR
Great-circle distance2,920 km
Maximum statutory amount for the band£350
Average operated arrivals per day1.42
Presence in the latest twelve-month windowoperations present in every month of the latest twelve-month window
First and last active monthJan 2018–Jun 2026
Months with operations in the archive93

origin_destination is the final point of the CAA service, not evidence of a nonstop connection. The distance joins the coordinates of the named airports; the actual track is unknown. Frequency describes published operations.

What this data cannot tell you

Delay cause is not published in the regulator's open data. Monthly aggregates describe a population, not a specific flight. Cells below twenty operations are suppressed; twenty to forty-nine are descriptive only and not ranked. Arrivals and departures do not add up. Cancellations are short-notice only, by the CAA definition. A movement is not the same as a scheduled flight.

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.

Data-quality counters for this route

Zero observed events does not mean zero risk. Operator coverage against the Summary file is not established in this record; comparisons are limited to the published population.

Unmatched records: 0; all recorded operations: 518; excluded by quarantine: 0.

Quick answers

How often is this route disrupted?

24.7% of 518 movements over July 2025 to June 2026. Arrivals into the UK airport; all published carriers.

How many flights are cancelled at short notice?

no events in 518 movements in the same window.

How many delays crossed three hours?

0.8% of 518 movements in the same window; these are observed movements, not a count of claims.

What does the delay distribution look like?

rare but severe. The class compares the tail with short delays across routes in the corpus.

What distance is used?

2,920 km, great-circle.

Can compensation entitlement be established here?

No. The cause and the circumstances of an individual flight are unknown. Official CAA conditions.

Why do some cells say "no data"?

That month is absent from the published series. Small cells carry a separate "suppressed" marker; a gap is never replaced by a zero.

How this was calculated

Dataset version, input hashes and reconstruction rules

Dataset version: 396da8dde2874f14; method route-record-v2.1.

Versioned register of every number and the entity map · Input hashes · Correction log · Reconstruction and formulas.

Reconstruction: integer counts inside the rounding bounds of shares of D, summing to M. Ambiguity is preserved as a range of feasible counts; non-convergence stays in quarantine. The map of codes and coordinates is pinned by hash alongside the data. Raw CSV files are not included in the published output.

Your trip has already gone wrong — what now?

The official route to complain

Contact the airline first, then the relevant ADR body or the CAA. The right to care is assessed separately from compensation; time limits and circumstances are checked case by case. CAA: how to complain.

Reconstruction and formulas

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