UK FLIGHT DELAY INDEX

derived from CAA punctuality statistics for UK reporting airports

How often are these flights late or cancelled?

BRS ↔ NEWCASTLE

In the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026, 23.4% of 607 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, 76.6% of 607 movements arrived on time by the industry's fifteen-minute standard. Severe delays were rarer: about one arrival in every 607 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, 23.4% of 607 movements were disrupted and 1.0% of 607 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
23.4% of 607 movements1.0% of 607 movements27.2–56.6 min; N of delayed flights=136–261607
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: 1.0% of 607 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 min22.4%30 min14.5%60 min6.6%120 min1.3%180 min0.2%360 min0.0%
Delay ladder table: share, movements and one-in-N
DelayShare and nMovementsOne delay in every N operations
>15 min22.4% of 607 movements1364.5
>30 min14.5% of 607 movements886.9
>60 min6.6% of 607 movements4015.2
>120 min1.3% of 607 movements875.9
>180 min0.2% of 607 movements1607.0
>360 minno events in 607 movements0no observed events, which is not zero risk
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?

When this route runs late, it is usually only a little late: big blow-ups are rarer here 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 early6210.2%15–1 early27845.8%0–15 late12520.6%16–30487.9%31–60487.9%61…120325.3%121…18071.2%181…36010.2%>36000.0%D=607
Definitions, denominators and limits

Ratio of the long tail to sixteen-to-sixty-minute delays: 0.0104; 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: Nov 2019, 5.9% of 51 movements. Worst month: Apr 2019, 100.0% of 60 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: 12.7%; sample: 552018Feb 2018: 9.6%; sample: 52Mar 2018: 32.7%; sample: 55Apr 2018: 19.4%; sample: 62May 2018: 28.8%; sample: 59Jun 2018: 39.3%; sample: 61Jul 2018: 32.3%; sample: 62Aug 2018: 41.3%; sample: 63Sep 2018: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Oct 2018: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Nov 2018: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Dec 2018: 14.3%; sample: 56Jan 2019: 12.7%; sample: 552019Feb 2019: 6.0%; sample: 50Mar 2019: 14.8%; sample: 54Apr 2019: 100.0%; sample: 60May 2019: 21.7%; sample: 69Jun 2019: 28.6%; sample: 63Jul 2019: 27.9%; sample: 61Aug 2019: 31.1%; sample: 61Sep 2019: 19.7%; sample: 66Oct 2019: 26.8%; sample: 56Nov 2019: 5.9%; sample: 51Dec 2019: 12.7%; sample: 55Jan 2020: 9.1%; sample: 552020Feb 2020: 28.3%; sample: 53Mar 2020: 11.9%; sample: 42Apr 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: 5.6%; sample: 36Sep 2020: 0.0%; sample: 25Oct 2020: 0.0%; sample: 22Nov 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Dec 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jan 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×2021Feb 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Mar 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Apr 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×May 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jun 2021: 0.0%; sample: 24Jul 2021: 4.5%; sample: 44Aug 2021: 8.7%; sample: 46Sep 2021: 7.0%; sample: 43Oct 2021: 9.3%; sample: 43Nov 2021: 0.0%; sample: 36Dec 2021: 22.9%; sample: 35Jan 2022: 5.1%; sample: 392022Feb 2022: 11.8%; sample: 34Mar 2022: 11.6%; sample: 43Apr 2022: 23.4%; sample: 64May 2022: 69.6%; sample: 56Jun 2022: 73.7%; sample: 57Jul 2022: 57.9%; sample: 38Aug 2022: 38.9%; sample: 36Sep 2022: 45.2%; sample: 31Oct 2022: 40.0%; sample: 40Nov 2022: 3.7%; sample: 27Dec 2022: 28.6%; sample: 35Jan 2023: 17.2%; sample: 292023Feb 2023: 15.8%; sample: 38Mar 2023: 34.0%; sample: 50Apr 2023: 42.0%; sample: 50May 2023: 45.3%; sample: 53Jun 2023: 54.9%; sample: 51Jul 2023: 66.0%; sample: 50Aug 2023: 56.2%; sample: 48Sep 2023: 49.0%; sample: 51Oct 2023: 40.7%; sample: 54Nov 2023: 10.0%; sample: 40Dec 2023: 34.1%; sample: 41Jan 2024: 12.2%; sample: 412024Feb 2024: 22.2%; sample: 45Mar 2024: 26.5%; sample: 49Apr 2024: 33.3%; sample: 39May 2024: 42.5%; sample: 40Jun 2024: 47.8%; sample: 46Jul 2024: 39.6%; sample: 48Aug 2024: 30.6%; sample: 49Sep 2024: 63.3%; sample: 49Oct 2024: 26.5%; sample: 49Nov 2024: 6.4%; sample: 47Dec 2024: 26.0%; sample: 50Jan 2025: 34.8%; sample: 462025Feb 2025: 21.3%; sample: 47Mar 2025: 13.2%; sample: 53Apr 2025: 17.5%; sample: 40May 2025: 13.6%; sample: 44Jun 2025: 22.7%; sample: 44Jul 2025: 40.4%; sample: 52Aug 2025: 35.2%; sample: 54Sep 2025: 25.5%; sample: 51Oct 2025: 23.6%; sample: 55Nov 2025: 11.1%; sample: 45Dec 2025: 26.9%; sample: 52Jan 2026: 15.6%; sample: 452026Feb 2026: 9.4%; sample: 53Mar 2026: 18.6%; sample: 59Apr 2026: 21.6%; sample: 37May 2026: 17.0%; sample: 53Jun 2026: 33.3%; sample: 51Pandemic 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 201812.7% of 55 movements
Feb 20189.6% of 52 movements
Mar 201832.7% of 55 movements
Apr 201819.4% of 62 movements
May 201828.8% of 59 movements
Jun 201839.3% of 61 movements
Jul 201832.3% of 62 movements
Aug 201841.3% of 63 movements
Sep 2018suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Oct 2018suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Nov 2018suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Dec 201814.3% of 56 movements
Jan 201912.7% of 55 movements
Feb 20196.0% of 50 movements
Mar 201914.8% of 54 movements
Apr 2019100.0% of 60 movements
May 201921.7% of 69 movements
Jun 201928.6% of 63 movements
Jul 201927.9% of 61 movements
Aug 201931.1% of 61 movements
Sep 201919.7% of 66 movements
Oct 201926.8% of 56 movements
Nov 20195.9% of 51 movements
Dec 201912.7% of 55 movements
Jan 20209.1% of 55 movements
Feb 202028.3% of 53 movements
Mar 202011.9% of 42 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
May 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jun 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jul 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Aug 20205.6% of 36 movements — small sample, not ranked
Sep 2020no events in 25 movements — small sample, not ranked
Oct 2020no events in 22 movements — small sample, not ranked
Nov 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Dec 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jan 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Feb 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Mar 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Apr 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
May 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jun 2021no events in 24 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jul 20214.5% of 44 movements — small sample, not ranked
Aug 20218.7% of 46 movements — small sample, not ranked
Sep 20217.0% of 43 movements — small sample, not ranked
Oct 20219.3% of 43 movements — small sample, not ranked
Nov 2021no events in 36 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202122.9% of 35 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 20225.1% of 39 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202211.8% of 34 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202211.6% of 43 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 202223.4% of 64 movements
May 202269.6% of 56 movements
Jun 202273.7% of 57 movements
Jul 202257.9% of 38 movements — small sample, not ranked
Aug 202238.9% of 36 movements — small sample, not ranked
Sep 202245.2% of 31 movements — small sample, not ranked
Oct 202240.0% of 40 movements — small sample, not ranked
Nov 20223.7% of 27 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202228.6% of 35 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 202317.2% of 29 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202315.8% of 38 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202334.0% of 50 movements
Apr 202342.0% of 50 movements
May 202345.3% of 53 movements
Jun 202354.9% of 51 movements
Jul 202366.0% of 50 movements
Aug 202356.2% of 48 movements — small sample, not ranked
Sep 202349.0% of 51 movements
Oct 202340.7% of 54 movements
Nov 202310.0% of 40 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202334.1% of 41 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 202412.2% of 41 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202422.2% of 45 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202426.5% of 49 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 202433.3% of 39 movements — small sample, not ranked
May 202442.5% of 40 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jun 202447.8% of 46 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jul 202439.6% of 48 movements — small sample, not ranked
Aug 202430.6% of 49 movements — small sample, not ranked
Sep 202463.3% of 49 movements — small sample, not ranked
Oct 202426.5% of 49 movements — small sample, not ranked
Nov 20246.4% of 47 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202426.0% of 50 movements
Jan 202534.8% of 46 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202521.3% of 47 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202513.2% of 53 movements
Apr 202517.5% of 40 movements — small sample, not ranked
May 202513.6% of 44 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jun 202522.7% of 44 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jul 202540.4% of 52 movements
Aug 202535.2% of 54 movements
Sep 202525.5% of 51 movements
Oct 202523.6% of 55 movements
Nov 202511.1% of 45 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202526.9% of 52 movements
Jan 202615.6% of 45 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 20269.4% of 53 movements
Mar 202618.6% of 59 movements
Apr 202621.6% of 37 movements — small sample, not ranked
May 202617.0% of 53 movements
Jun 202633.3% of 51 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 2022Arrivals57.9% of 38 movements — small sample, not ranked20.6% across 540 flightsreturned after 4 months
Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022Departures52.6% of 38 movements — small sample, not ranked18.4% across 538 flightsreturned after 4 months
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Arrivals56.2% of 48 movements — small sample, not ranked36.0% across 490 flightsreturned after 3 months
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Departures45.8% of 48 movements — small sample, not ranked34.2% across 492 flightsreturned after 2 months
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Arrivals13.2% of 53 movements33.2% across 559 flightsreturned the next month
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Departures13.0% of 54 movements33.1% across 559 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, 45.2% of arrivals were disrupted, measured across 5 Septembers in the archive. November has been the calmest, at 6.4% across 5 Novembers.

Even September has ranged from 19.7% to 63.3% 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 nJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec201912.7% of 55 movements6.0% of 50 movements14.8% of 54 movements100.0% of 60 movements21.7% of 69 movements28.6% of 63 movements27.9% of 61 movements31.1% of 61 movements19.7% of 66 movements26.8% of 56 movements5.9% of 51 movements12.7% of 55 movements20209.1% of 55 movements28.3% of 53 movements11.9% of 42 movements †suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements5.6% of 36 movements †no events in 25 movements †no events in 22 movements †suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementsno events in 24 movements †4.5% of 44 movements †8.7% of 46 movements †7.0% of 43 movements †9.3% of 43 movements †no events in 36 movements †22.9% of 35 movements †20225.1% of 39 movements †11.8% of 34 movements †11.6% of 43 movements †23.4% of 64 movements69.6% of 56 movements73.7% of 57 movements57.9% of 38 movements †38.9% of 36 movements †45.2% of 31 movements †40.0% of 40 movements †3.7% of 27 movements †28.6% of 35 movements †202317.2% of 29 movements †15.8% of 38 movements †34.0% of 50 movements42.0% of 50 movements45.3% of 53 movements54.9% of 51 movements66.0% of 50 movements56.2% of 48 movements †49.0% of 51 movements40.7% of 54 movements10.0% of 40 movements †34.1% of 41 movements †202412.2% of 41 movements †22.2% of 45 movements †26.5% of 49 movements †33.3% of 39 movements †42.5% of 40 movements †47.8% of 46 movements †39.6% of 48 movements †30.6% of 49 movements †63.3% of 49 movements †26.5% of 49 movements †6.4% of 47 movements †26.0% of 50 movements202534.8% of 46 movements †21.3% of 47 movements †13.2% of 53 movements17.5% of 40 movements †13.6% of 44 movements †22.7% of 44 movements †40.4% of 52 movements35.2% of 54 movements25.5% of 51 movements23.6% of 55 movements11.1% of 45 movements †26.9% of 52 movements202615.6% of 45 movements †9.4% of 53 movements18.6% of 59 movements21.6% of 37 movements †17.0% of 53 movements33.3% of 51 movementsno datano datano datano datano datano data
Month-by-month table: median, observed range and sample
MonthMedianObserved rangeSample
Jan12.7%5.1–34.8%7 months, 310 flights
Feb11.8%6.0–22.2%7 months, 319 flights
Mar18.6%11.6–34.0%7 months, 363 flights
Apr23.4%17.5–100.0%7 months, 352 flights
May28.8%13.6–69.6%7 months, 374 flights
Jun39.3%22.7–73.7%7 months, 373 flights
Jul40.0%27.9–66.0%6 months, 311 flights
Aug37.0%30.6–56.2%6 months, 311 flights
Sep45.2%19.7–63.3%5 months, 248 flights
Oct26.8%23.6–40.7%5 months, 254 flights
Nov6.4%3.7–11.1%5 months, 210 flights
Dec26.5%12.7–34.1%6 months, 289 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?

Only one carrier published enough flights here to report: Easyjet Uk Ltd, 23.2% of 604 movements disrupted.

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 Uk23.2% of 604 flights
Airline comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
AirlineOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Bmi Regionalsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Eastern Airwayssuppressed: 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 Uk60423.2% of 604 movements1.0% of 604 movements0.2% of 604 movementsdescriptive comparison
Flybesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Jet2.Comsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Loganairsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Titan Airwayssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
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, SOU had the lowest disruption share at 13.6% of 634 movements and JER the highest at 22.7% of 44 movements — small sample, not ranked. This route sits at 23.4% of 607 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 optionBfs ↔ Newcastle15.5% of 899 flightsExt ↔ Newcastle17.1% of 175 flightsJer ↔ Newcastle †22.7% of 44 flightsLhr ↔ Newcastle15.2% of 1,839 flightsSou ↔ Newcastle13.6% of 634 flights
Airport comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
Other UK airport to the same cityOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Abz ↔ Newcastlesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Bfs ↔ Newcastle89915.5% of 899 movements0.3% of 899 movements0.3% of 899 movementsdescriptive comparison
Bhd ↔ Newcastlesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Bhx ↔ Newcastlesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Boh ↔ Newcastlesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Cwl ↔ Newcastlesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Doncaster-Sheffield ↔ Newcastlesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Durham-Tees-Valley ↔ Newcastlesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Edi ↔ Newcastlesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Ema ↔ Newcastlesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Ext ↔ Newcastle17517.1% of 175 movementsno events in 175 movementsno events in 175 movementsdescriptive comparison
Gla ↔ Newcastlesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Iom ↔ Newcastlesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Jer ↔ Newcastle4422.7% of 44 movements — small sample, not ranked2.3% of 44 movements — small sample, not rankedno events in 44 movements — small sample, not rankedsmall sample; not ranked
Lba ↔ Newcastlesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Lcy ↔ Newcastlesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Lgw ↔ Newcastlesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Lhr ↔ Newcastle1,83915.2% of 1,839 movements0.8% of 1,839 movements0.2% of 1,839 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lpl ↔ Newcastlesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Ltn ↔ Newcastlesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Man ↔ Newcastlesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Mme ↔ Newcastlesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Sen ↔ Newcastlesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Sou ↔ Newcastle63413.6% of 634 movements1.1% of 634 movements0.5% of 634 movementsdescriptive comparison
Stn ↔ Newcastlesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed

Does the direction you are flying change anything?

Barely: arrivals into BRS ran 23.4% of 607 movements disrupted, departures 25.7% of 608 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 BRS23.4% of 607 movements1.0% of 607 movements0.2% of 607 movements
Departures from BRS25.7% of 608 movements1.0% of 608 movementsno events in 608 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 202615 flights out of 4,26915 × £220 = £3,300
ArrivalsLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 202610 flights out of 2,89310 × £220 = £2,200
DeparturesWhole archive · Jan 2018–Jun 20269 flights out of 4,2669 × £220 = £1,980
DeparturesLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 20266 flights out of 2,8916 × £220 = £1,320
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 / countryNEWCASTLE / UNITED KINGDOM
Final point codesNCL / EGNT
Great-circle distance412 km
Maximum statutory amount for the band£220
Average operated arrivals per day1.65
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 archive94

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: 607; excluded by quarantine: 0.

Quick answers

How often is this route disrupted?

23.4% of 607 movements over July 2025 to June 2026. Arrivals into the UK airport; all published carriers.

How many flights are cancelled at short notice?

1.0% of 607 movements in the same window.

How many delays crossed three hours?

0.2% of 607 movements in the same window; these are observed movements, not a count of claims.

What does the delay distribution look like?

chronically slightly late. The class compares the tail with short delays across routes in the corpus.

What distance is used?

412 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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