UK FLIGHT DELAY INDEX

derived from CAA punctuality statistics for UK reporting airports

How often are these flights late or cancelled?

BRS ↔ FARO

In the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026, 20.0% of 1,192 movements arriving into BRS were disrupted — that is, they landed more than fifteen minutes late or were cancelled at short notice.

Put the other way round, 80.0% of 1,192 movements arrived on time by the industry's fifteen-minute standard. Severe delays were rarer: about one arrival in every 238 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, 20.0% of 1,192 movements were disrupted and 0.8% of 1,192 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
20.0% of 1,192 movements0.8% of 1,192 movements22.2–57.5 min; N of delayed flights=228–5371,192
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: 0.8% of 1,192 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 min19.1%30 min9.6%60 min4.6%120 min1.1%180 min0.4%360 min0.2%
Delay ladder table: share, movements and one-in-N
DelayShare and nMovementsOne delay in every N operations
>15 min19.1% of 1,192 movements2285.2
>30 min9.6% of 1,192 movements11410.5
>60 min4.6% of 1,192 movements5521.7
>120 min1.1% of 1,192 movements1391.7
>180 min0.4% of 1,192 movements5238.4
>360 min0.2% of 1,192 movements2596.0
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 early15513.0%15–1 early49041.1%0–15 late30925.9%16–301149.6%31–60594.9%61…120423.5%121…18080.7%181…36030.3%>36020.2%D=1,192
Definitions, denominators and limits

Ratio of the long tail to sixteen-to-sixty-minute delays: 0.0289; 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?

Best month: Sep 2020, 1.6% of 64 movements. Worst month: Apr 2019, 97.0% of 66 movements.

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: 9.1%; sample: 332018Feb 2018: 7.3%; sample: 41Mar 2018: 27.3%; sample: 55Apr 2018: 19.1%; sample: 89May 2018: 33.7%; sample: 104Jun 2018: 35.2%; sample: 105Jul 2018: 32.7%; sample: 107Aug 2018: 31.7%; sample: 104Sep 2018: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Oct 2018: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Nov 2018: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Dec 2018: 23.1%; sample: 39Jan 2019: 8.8%; sample: 342019Feb 2019: 12.5%; sample: 40Mar 2019: 22.9%; sample: 48Apr 2019: 97.0%; sample: 66May 2019: 30.8%; sample: 104Jun 2019: 31.1%; sample: 103Jul 2019: 29.0%; sample: 107Aug 2019: 26.4%; sample: 106Sep 2019: 42.2%; sample: 102Oct 2019: 20.4%; sample: 98Nov 2019: 18.6%; sample: 43Dec 2019: 21.3%; sample: 47Jan 2020: 16.7%; sample: 242020Feb 2020: 25.8%; sample: 31Mar 2020: 45.2%; sample: 31Apr 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×May 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jun 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jul 2020: 4.2%; sample: 24Aug 2020: 2.0%; sample: 50Sep 2020: 1.6%; sample: 64Oct 2020: 2.0%; sample: 50Nov 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: 8.7%; sample: 23Jun 2021: 31.0%; sample: 42Jul 2021: 7.5%; sample: 40Aug 2021: 11.1%; sample: 63Sep 2021: 9.3%; sample: 75Oct 2021: 30.5%; sample: 82Nov 2021: 31.0%; sample: 29Dec 2021: 17.9%; sample: 28Jan 2022: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×2022Feb 2022: 14.3%; sample: 28Mar 2022: 15.4%; sample: 52Apr 2022: 34.0%; sample: 94May 2022: 50.9%; sample: 108Jun 2022: 58.3%; sample: 115Jul 2022: 37.9%; sample: 116Aug 2022: 43.0%; sample: 107Sep 2022: 45.1%; sample: 102Oct 2022: 38.8%; sample: 103Nov 2022: 15.6%; sample: 45Dec 2022: 29.7%; sample: 37Jan 2023: 6.5%; sample: 312023Feb 2023: 19.1%; sample: 47Mar 2023: 49.2%; sample: 65Apr 2023: 43.2%; sample: 95May 2023: 41.2%; sample: 102Jun 2023: 44.3%; sample: 106Jul 2023: 37.8%; sample: 127Aug 2023: 36.8%; sample: 133Sep 2023: 35.3%; sample: 133Oct 2023: 34.8%; sample: 135Nov 2023: 17.0%; sample: 53Dec 2023: 17.6%; sample: 51Jan 2024: 9.4%; sample: 322024Feb 2024: 9.8%; sample: 51Mar 2024: 18.2%; sample: 66Apr 2024: 18.3%; sample: 115May 2024: 31.5%; sample: 130Jun 2024: 26.3%; sample: 133Jul 2024: 20.1%; sample: 134Aug 2024: 15.5%; sample: 129Sep 2024: 39.9%; sample: 138Oct 2024: 31.2%; sample: 141Nov 2024: 6.0%; sample: 50Dec 2024: 16.7%; sample: 48Jan 2025: 21.2%; sample: 332025Feb 2025: 9.1%; sample: 44Mar 2025: 11.7%; sample: 60Apr 2025: 17.6%; sample: 125May 2025: 20.1%; sample: 139Jun 2025: 16.4%; sample: 134Jul 2025: 26.5%; sample: 132Aug 2025: 18.8%; sample: 133Sep 2025: 21.4%; sample: 145Oct 2025: 18.4%; sample: 136Nov 2025: 27.5%; sample: 40Dec 2025: 15.4%; sample: 52Jan 2026: 18.8%; sample: 322026Feb 2026: 17.8%; sample: 45Mar 2026: 15.3%; sample: 72Apr 2026: 13.0%; sample: 123May 2026: 15.5%; sample: 142Jun 2026: 28.6%; sample: 140Pandemic 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 20189.1% of 33 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 20187.3% of 41 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 201827.3% of 55 movements
Apr 201819.1% of 89 movements
May 201833.7% of 104 movements
Jun 201835.2% of 105 movements
Jul 201832.7% of 107 movements
Aug 201831.7% of 104 movements
Sep 2018suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Oct 2018suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Nov 2018suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Dec 201823.1% of 39 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 20198.8% of 34 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 201912.5% of 40 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 201922.9% of 48 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 201997.0% of 66 movements
May 201930.8% of 104 movements
Jun 201931.1% of 103 movements
Jul 201929.0% of 107 movements
Aug 201926.4% of 106 movements
Sep 201942.2% of 102 movements
Oct 201920.4% of 98 movements
Nov 201918.6% of 43 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 201921.3% of 47 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 202016.7% of 24 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202025.8% of 31 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202045.2% of 31 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
May 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jun 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jul 20204.2% of 24 movements — small sample, not ranked
Aug 20202.0% of 50 movements
Sep 20201.6% of 64 movements
Oct 20202.0% of 50 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 20218.7% of 23 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jun 202131.0% of 42 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jul 20217.5% of 40 movements — small sample, not ranked
Aug 202111.1% of 63 movements
Sep 20219.3% of 75 movements
Oct 202130.5% of 82 movements
Nov 202131.0% of 29 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202117.9% of 28 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Feb 202214.3% of 28 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202215.4% of 52 movements
Apr 202234.0% of 94 movements
May 202250.9% of 108 movements
Jun 202258.3% of 115 movements
Jul 202237.9% of 116 movements
Aug 202243.0% of 107 movements
Sep 202245.1% of 102 movements
Oct 202238.8% of 103 movements
Nov 202215.6% of 45 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202229.7% of 37 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 20236.5% of 31 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202319.1% of 47 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202349.2% of 65 movements
Apr 202343.2% of 95 movements
May 202341.2% of 102 movements
Jun 202344.3% of 106 movements
Jul 202337.8% of 127 movements
Aug 202336.8% of 133 movements
Sep 202335.3% of 133 movements
Oct 202334.8% of 135 movements
Nov 202317.0% of 53 movements
Dec 202317.6% of 51 movements
Jan 20249.4% of 32 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 20249.8% of 51 movements
Mar 202418.2% of 66 movements
Apr 202418.3% of 115 movements
May 202431.5% of 130 movements
Jun 202426.3% of 133 movements
Jul 202420.1% of 134 movements
Aug 202415.5% of 129 movements
Sep 202439.9% of 138 movements
Oct 202431.2% of 141 movements
Nov 20246.0% of 50 movements
Dec 202416.7% of 48 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 202521.2% of 33 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 20259.1% of 44 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202511.7% of 60 movements
Apr 202517.6% of 125 movements
May 202520.1% of 139 movements
Jun 202516.4% of 134 movements
Jul 202526.5% of 132 movements
Aug 202518.8% of 133 movements
Sep 202521.4% of 145 movements
Oct 202518.4% of 136 movements
Nov 202527.5% of 40 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202515.4% of 52 movements
Jan 202618.8% of 32 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202617.8% of 45 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202615.3% of 72 movements
Apr 202613.0% of 123 movements
May 202615.5% of 142 movements
Jun 202628.6% of 140 movements

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 2022Arrivals37.9% of 116 movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022Departures42.5% of 113 movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Arrivals36.8% of 133 movements34.5% across 967 flightsreturned after 3 months
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Departures40.3% of 134 movements32.1% across 963 flightsreturned after 3 months
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Arrivals11.7% of 60 movements21.2% across 1,161 flightsreturned the next month
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Departures15.0% of 60 movements22.4% across 1,167 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?

September has historically been the hardest month on this route: in a typical September, 39.9% of arrivals were disrupted, measured across 5 Septembers in the archive. January has been the calmest, at 9.2% across 6 Januarys.

Even September has ranged from 21.4% to 45.1% 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 nJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec20198.8% of 34 movements †12.5% of 40 movements †22.9% of 48 movements †97.0% of 66 movements30.8% of 104 movements31.1% of 103 movements29.0% of 107 movements26.4% of 106 movements42.2% of 102 movements20.4% of 98 movements18.6% of 43 movements †21.3% of 47 movements †202016.7% of 24 movements †25.8% of 31 movements †45.2% of 31 movements †suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements4.2% of 24 movements †2.0% of 50 movements1.6% of 64 movements2.0% of 50 movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementsno data8.7% of 23 movements †31.0% of 42 movements †7.5% of 40 movements †11.1% of 63 movements9.3% of 75 movements30.5% of 82 movements31.0% of 29 movements †17.9% of 28 movements †2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movements14.3% of 28 movements †15.4% of 52 movements34.0% of 94 movements50.9% of 108 movements58.3% of 115 movements37.9% of 116 movements43.0% of 107 movements45.1% of 102 movements38.8% of 103 movements15.6% of 45 movements †29.7% of 37 movements †20236.5% of 31 movements †19.1% of 47 movements †49.2% of 65 movements43.2% of 95 movements41.2% of 102 movements44.3% of 106 movements37.8% of 127 movements36.8% of 133 movements35.3% of 133 movements34.8% of 135 movements17.0% of 53 movements17.6% of 51 movements20249.4% of 32 movements †9.8% of 51 movements18.2% of 66 movements18.3% of 115 movements31.5% of 130 movements26.3% of 133 movements20.1% of 134 movements15.5% of 129 movements39.9% of 138 movements31.2% of 141 movements6.0% of 50 movements16.7% of 48 movements †202521.2% of 33 movements †9.1% of 44 movements †11.7% of 60 movements17.6% of 125 movements20.1% of 139 movements16.4% of 134 movements26.5% of 132 movements18.8% of 133 movements21.4% of 145 movements18.4% of 136 movements27.5% of 40 movements †15.4% of 52 movements202618.8% of 32 movements †17.8% of 45 movements †15.3% of 72 movements13.0% of 123 movements15.5% of 142 movements28.6% of 140 movementsno datano datano datano datano datano data
Month-by-month table: median, observed range and sample
MonthMedianObserved rangeSample
Jan9.2%6.5–21.2%6 months, 195 flights
Feb12.5%7.3–19.1%7 months, 296 flights
Mar18.2%11.7–49.2%7 months, 418 flights
Apr19.1%13.0–97.0%7 months, 707 flights
May31.5%15.5–50.9%7 months, 829 flights
Jun31.1%16.4–58.3%7 months, 836 flights
Jul30.8%20.1–37.9%6 months, 723 flights
Aug29.1%15.5–43.0%6 months, 712 flights
Sep39.9%21.4–45.1%5 months, 620 flights
Oct31.2%18.4–38.8%5 months, 613 flights
Nov17.0%6.0–27.5%5 months, 231 flights
Dec19.5%15.4–29.7%6 months, 274 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: Easyjet Europe 10.7% of 289 movements, Jet2.Com 15.7% of 229 movements, Ryanair 20.5% of 244 movements. Observed shares differ; the mix of operations is not matched, so no causal conclusion follows.

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 Europe10.7% of 289 flightsEasyjet Uk28.1% of 430 flightsJet2.Com15.7% of 229 flightsRyanair20.5% of 244 flights
Airline comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
AirlineOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Avanti Air Bedarfsfluggessuppressed: 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 Europe28910.7% of 289 movements0.7% of 289 movements0.3% of 289 movementsdescriptive comparison
Easyjet Uk43028.1% of 430 movements1.6% of 430 movements0.7% of 430 movementsdescriptive comparison
Flybesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Jet2.Com22915.7% of 229 movementsno events in 229 movementsno events in 229 movementsdescriptive comparison
Netjets Transportes Aereossuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Ryanair24420.5% of 244 movements0.4% of 244 movements0.4% of 244 movementsdescriptive comparison
Tui Airwayssuppressed: 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, CWL had the lowest disruption share at 4.8% of 84 movements and MAN the highest at 30.2% of 1,368 movements. This route sits at 20.0% of 1,192 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 optionAbz ↔ Faro5.5% of 91 flightsBfs ↔ Faro11.9% of 798 flightsBhx ↔ Faro16.4% of 877 flightsBoh ↔ Faro12.6% of 317 flightsCwl ↔ Faro4.8% of 84 flightsEdi ↔ Faro19.1% of 476 flightsEma ↔ Faro15.3% of 653 flightsExt ↔ Faro5.1% of 59 flights
Airport comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
Other UK airport to the same cityOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Abz ↔ Faro915.5% of 91 movements1.1% of 91 movementsno events in 91 movementsdescriptive comparison
Bfs ↔ Faro79811.9% of 798 movements0.3% of 798 movements0.1% of 798 movementsdescriptive comparison
Bhd ↔ Farosuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Bhx ↔ Faro87716.4% of 877 movements0.1% of 877 movements0.3% of 877 movementsdescriptive comparison
Boh ↔ Faro31712.6% of 317 movementsno events in 317 movements0.3% of 317 movementsdescriptive comparison
Cwl ↔ Faro844.8% of 84 movementsno events in 84 movements1.2% of 84 movementsdescriptive comparison
Doncaster-Sheffield ↔ Farosuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Edi ↔ Faro47619.1% of 476 movementsno events in 476 movementsno events in 476 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ema ↔ Faro65315.3% of 653 movements0.2% of 653 movementsno events in 653 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ext ↔ Faro595.1% of 59 movementsno events in 59 movementsno events in 59 movementsdescriptive comparison
Gla ↔ Faro48113.5% of 481 movements1.0% of 481 movements0.6% of 481 movementsdescriptive comparison
Iom ↔ Farosuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Jer ↔ Farosuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Lba ↔ Faro64720.9% of 647 movements0.8% of 647 movements0.8% of 647 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lcy ↔ Faro10615.1% of 106 movements0.9% of 106 movementsno events in 106 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lgw ↔ Faro2,65527.3% of 2,655 movements1.0% of 2,655 movements0.6% of 2,655 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lhr ↔ Faro52719.7% of 527 movements0.8% of 527 movementsno events in 527 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lpl ↔ Faro76511.5% of 765 movements0.7% of 765 movements0.1% of 765 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ltn ↔ Faro1,16227.9% of 1,162 movements0.4% of 1,162 movements0.3% of 1,162 movementsdescriptive comparison
Man ↔ Faro1,36830.2% of 1,368 movements0.6% of 1,368 movements0.6% of 1,368 movementsdescriptive comparison
Mme ↔ Faro6116.4% of 61 movementsno events in 61 movementsno events in 61 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ncl ↔ Faro48512.2% of 485 movementsno events in 485 movementsno events in 485 movementsdescriptive comparison
Sen ↔ Faro14319.6% of 143 movementsno events in 143 movementsno events in 143 movementsdescriptive comparison
Sou ↔ Faro5115.7% of 51 movements2.0% of 51 movements2.0% of 51 movementsdescriptive comparison
Stn ↔ Faro1,24421.7% of 1,244 movements0.3% of 1,244 movements0.6% of 1,244 movementsdescriptive comparison

Does the direction you are flying change anything?

Barely: arrivals into BRS ran 20.0% of 1,192 movements disrupted, departures 20.1% of 1,184 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 BRS20.0% of 1,192 movements0.8% of 1,192 movements0.4% of 1,192 movements
Departures from BRS20.1% of 1,184 movements0.4% of 1,184 movements0.1% of 1,184 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 202629 flights out of 7,15629 × £350 = £10,150
ArrivalsLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 202623 flights out of 5,49523 × £350 = £8,050
DeparturesWhole archive · Jan 2018–Jun 202626 flights out of 7,17726 × £350 = £9,100
DeparturesLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 202620 flights out of 5,48720 × £350 = £7,000
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 airportBRISTOL · BRS
Final point / countryFARO / PORTUGAL(EXCLUDING MADEIRA)
Final point codesFAO / LPFR
Great-circle distance1,650 km
Maximum statutory amount for the band£350
Average operated arrivals per day3.24
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: 1,192; excluded by quarantine: 0.

Quick answers

How often is this route disrupted?

20.0% of 1,192 movements over July 2025 to June 2026. Arrivals into the UK airport; all published carriers.

How many flights are cancelled at short notice?

0.8% of 1,192 movements in the same window.

How many delays crossed three hours?

0.4% of 1,192 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?

1,650 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

Open the versioned claim register

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