UK FLIGHT DELAY INDEX

derived from CAA punctuality statistics for UK reporting airports

How often are these flights late or cancelled?

BRS ↔ PARIS CHARLES DE GAULLE

In the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026, 32.6% of 965 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, 67.4% of 965 movements arrived on time by the industry's fifteen-minute standard. Severe delays were rarer: about one arrival in every 322 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, 32.6% of 965 movements were disrupted and 1.9% of 965 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
32.6% of 965 movements1.9% of 965 movements23.7–52.3 min; N of delayed flights=297–614965
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: 1.9% of 965 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 min30.8%30 min18.1%60 min6.3%120 min1.0%180 min0.3%360 min0.0%
Delay ladder table: share, movements and one-in-N
DelayShare and nMovementsOne delay in every N operations
>15 min30.8% of 965 movements2973.2
>30 min18.1% of 965 movements1755.5
>60 min6.3% of 965 movements6115.8
>120 min1.0% of 965 movements1096.5
>180 min0.3% of 965 movements3321.7
>360 minno events in 965 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 early323.3%15–1 early30131.2%0–15 late31732.8%16–3012212.6%31–6011411.8%61…120515.3%121…18070.7%181…36030.3%>36000.0%D=965
Definitions, denominators and limits

Ratio of the long tail to sixteen-to-sixty-minute delays: 0.0127; 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: Feb 2024, 15.4% of 65 movements. Worst month: Jul 2023, 67.9% of 56 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: 37.6%; sample: 852018Feb 2018: 50.7%; sample: 75Mar 2018: 41.4%; sample: 87Apr 2018: 18.2%; sample: 77May 2018: 32.2%; sample: 90Jun 2018: 33.0%; sample: 88Jul 2018: 30.8%; sample: 91Aug 2018: 29.0%; sample: 62Sep 2018: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Oct 2018: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Nov 2018: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Dec 2018: 43.0%; sample: 79Jan 2019: 36.9%; sample: 842019Feb 2019: 39.3%; sample: 56Mar 2019: 71.0%; sample: 31Apr 2019: 100.0%; sample: 29May 2019: 35.5%; sample: 31Jun 2019: 53.3%; sample: 30Jul 2019: 43.5%; sample: 62Aug 2019: 37.1%; sample: 62Sep 2019: 32.8%; sample: 61Oct 2019: 27.6%; sample: 58Nov 2019: 16.1%; sample: 56Dec 2019: 44.4%; sample: 54Jan 2020: 19.0%; sample: 582020Feb 2020: 35.8%; sample: 53Mar 2020: 32.6%; sample: 43Apr 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: 0.0%; sample: 24Sep 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: 15.0%; sample: 20Nov 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Dec 2021: 7.7%; sample: 26Jan 2022: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×2022Feb 2022: 30.4%; sample: 23Mar 2022: 5.0%; sample: 40Apr 2022: 28.6%; sample: 35May 2022: 57.9%; sample: 38Jun 2022: 71.4%; sample: 35Jul 2022: 51.4%; sample: 35Aug 2022: 32.4%; sample: 34Sep 2022: 40.6%; sample: 32Oct 2022: 40.6%; sample: 32Nov 2022: 22.7%; sample: 44Dec 2022: 40.0%; sample: 45Jan 2023: 19.5%; sample: 412023Feb 2023: 18.2%; sample: 55Mar 2023: 50.8%; sample: 61Apr 2023: 53.6%; sample: 56May 2023: 47.4%; sample: 57Jun 2023: 63.8%; sample: 58Jul 2023: 67.9%; sample: 56Aug 2023: 61.0%; sample: 59Sep 2023: 52.7%; sample: 55Oct 2023: 40.3%; sample: 62Nov 2023: 29.7%; sample: 74Dec 2023: 43.0%; sample: 86Jan 2024: 32.2%; sample: 592024Feb 2024: 15.4%; sample: 65Mar 2024: 25.0%; sample: 72Apr 2024: 37.3%; sample: 67May 2024: 43.5%; sample: 69Jun 2024: 40.8%; sample: 71Jul 2024: 42.2%; sample: 64Aug 2024: 43.9%; sample: 66Sep 2024: 58.3%; sample: 72Oct 2024: 36.8%; sample: 76Nov 2024: 42.9%; sample: 77Dec 2024: 56.5%; sample: 92Jan 2025: 41.6%; sample: 772025Feb 2025: 30.1%; sample: 83Mar 2025: 16.5%; sample: 91Apr 2025: 19.4%; sample: 67May 2025: 25.7%; sample: 70Jun 2025: 30.6%; sample: 72Jul 2025: 50.0%; sample: 76Aug 2025: 33.8%; sample: 74Sep 2025: 41.3%; sample: 75Oct 2025: 34.0%; sample: 97Nov 2025: 29.5%; sample: 78Dec 2025: 40.6%; sample: 101Jan 2026: 33.3%; sample: 722026Feb 2026: 17.4%; sample: 86Mar 2026: 22.0%; sample: 100Apr 2026: 19.4%; sample: 67May 2026: 24.3%; sample: 70Jun 2026: 47.8%; sample: 69Pandemic 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 201837.6% of 85 movements
Feb 201850.7% of 75 movements
Mar 201841.4% of 87 movements
Apr 201818.2% of 77 movements
May 201832.2% of 90 movements
Jun 201833.0% of 88 movements
Jul 201830.8% of 91 movements
Aug 201829.0% of 62 movements
Sep 2018suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Oct 2018suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Nov 2018suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Dec 201843.0% of 79 movements
Jan 201936.9% of 84 movements
Feb 201939.3% of 56 movements
Mar 201971.0% of 31 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 2019100.0% of 29 movements — small sample, not ranked
May 201935.5% of 31 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jun 201953.3% of 30 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jul 201943.5% of 62 movements
Aug 201937.1% of 62 movements
Sep 201932.8% of 61 movements
Oct 201927.6% of 58 movements
Nov 201916.1% of 56 movements
Dec 201944.4% of 54 movements
Jan 202019.0% of 58 movements
Feb 202035.8% of 53 movements
Mar 202032.6% of 43 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 2020no events in 24 movements — small sample, not ranked
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 202115.0% of 20 movements — small sample, not ranked
Nov 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Dec 20217.7% of 26 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Feb 202230.4% of 23 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 20225.0% of 40 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 202228.6% of 35 movements — small sample, not ranked
May 202257.9% of 38 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jun 202271.4% of 35 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jul 202251.4% of 35 movements — small sample, not ranked
Aug 202232.4% of 34 movements — small sample, not ranked
Sep 202240.6% of 32 movements — small sample, not ranked
Oct 202240.6% of 32 movements — small sample, not ranked
Nov 202222.7% of 44 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202240.0% of 45 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 202319.5% of 41 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202318.2% of 55 movements
Mar 202350.8% of 61 movements
Apr 202353.6% of 56 movements
May 202347.4% of 57 movements
Jun 202363.8% of 58 movements
Jul 202367.9% of 56 movements
Aug 202361.0% of 59 movements
Sep 202352.7% of 55 movements
Oct 202340.3% of 62 movements
Nov 202329.7% of 74 movements
Dec 202343.0% of 86 movements
Jan 202432.2% of 59 movements
Feb 202415.4% of 65 movements
Mar 202425.0% of 72 movements
Apr 202437.3% of 67 movements
May 202443.5% of 69 movements
Jun 202440.8% of 71 movements
Jul 202442.2% of 64 movements
Aug 202443.9% of 66 movements
Sep 202458.3% of 72 movements
Oct 202436.8% of 76 movements
Nov 202442.9% of 77 movements
Dec 202456.5% of 92 movements
Jan 202541.6% of 77 movements
Feb 202530.1% of 83 movements
Mar 202516.5% of 91 movements
Apr 202519.4% of 67 movements
May 202525.7% of 70 movements
Jun 202530.6% of 72 movements
Jul 202550.0% of 76 movements
Aug 202533.8% of 74 movements
Sep 202541.3% of 75 movements
Oct 202534.0% of 97 movements
Nov 202529.5% of 78 movements
Dec 202540.6% of 101 movements
Jan 202633.3% of 72 movements
Feb 202617.4% of 86 movements
Mar 202622.0% of 100 movements
Apr 202619.4% of 67 movements
May 202624.3% of 70 movements
Jun 202647.8% of 69 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 2022Arrivals51.4% of 35 movements — small sample, not rankedno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022Departures40.0% of 35 movements — small sample, not rankedno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Arrivals61.0% of 59 movements41.5% across 571 flightsreturned after 2 months
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Departures44.1% of 59 movements28.8% across 570 flightsreturned after 2 months
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Arrivals16.5% of 91 movements41.6% across 886 flightsreturned the next month
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Departures15.4% of 91 movements30.0% across 888 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?

June has historically been the hardest month on this route: in a typical June, 47.8% of arrivals were disrupted, measured across 7 Junes in the archive. March has been the calmest, at 25.0% across 7 Marchs.

Even June has ranged from 30.6% to 71.4% 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 nJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec201936.9% of 84 movements39.3% of 56 movements71.0% of 31 movements †100.0% of 29 movements †35.5% of 31 movements †53.3% of 30 movements †43.5% of 62 movements37.1% of 62 movements32.8% of 61 movements27.6% of 58 movements16.1% of 56 movements44.4% of 54 movements202019.0% of 58 movements35.8% of 53 movements32.6% of 43 movements †suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementsno events in 24 movements †suppressed: 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 movements15.0% of 20 movements †suppressed: fewer than twenty movements7.7% of 26 movements †2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movements30.4% of 23 movements †5.0% of 40 movements †28.6% of 35 movements †57.9% of 38 movements †71.4% of 35 movements †51.4% of 35 movements †32.4% of 34 movements †40.6% of 32 movements †40.6% of 32 movements †22.7% of 44 movements †40.0% of 45 movements †202319.5% of 41 movements †18.2% of 55 movements50.8% of 61 movements53.6% of 56 movements47.4% of 57 movements63.8% of 58 movements67.9% of 56 movements61.0% of 59 movements52.7% of 55 movements40.3% of 62 movements29.7% of 74 movements43.0% of 86 movements202432.2% of 59 movements15.4% of 65 movements25.0% of 72 movements37.3% of 67 movements43.5% of 69 movements40.8% of 71 movements42.2% of 64 movements43.9% of 66 movements58.3% of 72 movements36.8% of 76 movements42.9% of 77 movements56.5% of 92 movements202541.6% of 77 movements30.1% of 83 movements16.5% of 91 movements19.4% of 67 movements25.7% of 70 movements30.6% of 72 movements50.0% of 76 movements33.8% of 74 movements41.3% of 75 movements34.0% of 97 movements29.5% of 78 movements40.6% of 101 movements202633.3% of 72 movements17.4% of 86 movements22.0% of 100 movements19.4% of 67 movements24.3% of 70 movements47.8% of 69 movementsno datano datano datano datano datano data
Month-by-month table: median, observed range and sample
MonthMedianObserved rangeSample
Jan35.1%19.5–41.6%6 months, 418 flights
Feb30.1%15.4–50.7%7 months, 443 flights
Mar25.0%5.0–71.0%7 months, 482 flights
Apr28.6%18.2–100.0%7 months, 398 flights
May35.5%24.3–57.9%7 months, 425 flights
Jun47.8%30.6–71.4%7 months, 423 flights
Jul46.8%30.8–67.9%6 months, 384 flights
Aug35.4%29.0–61.0%6 months, 357 flights
Sep41.3%32.8–58.3%5 months, 295 flights
Oct36.8%27.6–40.6%5 months, 325 flights
Nov29.5%16.1–42.9%5 months, 329 flights
Dec43.0%40.0–56.5%6 months, 457 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 Uk 30.8% of 830 movements, Easyjet Europe 43.7% of 135 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 Europe43.7% of 135 flightsEasyjet Uk30.8% of 830 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
Easyjet Airlinesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Easyjet Europe13543.7% of 135 movements3.0% of 135 movementsno events in 135 movementsdescriptive comparison
Easyjet Uk83030.8% of 830 movements1.7% of 830 movements0.4% of 830 movementsdescriptive comparison
Enter Airsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Flybesuppressed: 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, ABZ had the lowest disruption share at 15.6% of 64 movements and MAN the highest at 46.9% of 2,780 movements. This route sits at 32.6% of 965 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 ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaulle15.6% of 64 flightsBfs ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaulle26.0% of 407 flightsBhx ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaulle28.9% of 1,631 flightsEdi ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaulle35.0% of 1,859 flightsGla ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaulle37.8% of 683 flightsJer ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaulle22.0% of 50 flightsLba ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaulle40.3% of 278 flightsLgw ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaulle34.0% of 1,641 flights
Airport comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
Other UK airport to the same cityOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Abz ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaulle6415.6% of 64 movementsno events in 64 movementsno events in 64 movementsdescriptive comparison
Bfs ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaulle40726.0% of 407 movements0.7% of 407 movementsno events in 407 movementsdescriptive comparison
Bhd ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaullesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Bhx ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaulle1,63128.9% of 1,631 movements1.5% of 1,631 movements0.3% of 1,631 movementsdescriptive comparison
Cwl ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaullesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Doncaster-Sheffield ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaullesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Edi ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaulle1,85935.0% of 1,859 movements1.0% of 1,859 movements0.6% of 1,859 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ema ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaullesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Ext ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaullesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Gla ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaulle68337.8% of 683 movements1.2% of 683 movements0.1% of 683 movementsdescriptive comparison
Iom ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaullesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Jer ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaulle5022.0% of 50 movementsno events in 50 movements2.0% of 50 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lba ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaulle27840.3% of 278 movementsno events in 278 movements0.7% of 278 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lcy ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaullesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Lgw ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaulle1,64134.0% of 1,641 movements2.2% of 1,641 movements0.5% of 1,641 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lhr ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaulle4,78525.3% of 4,785 movements1.9% of 4,785 movements0.1% of 4,785 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lpl ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaulle27324.2% of 273 movements1.8% of 273 movements0.4% of 273 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ltn ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaulle1,13335.4% of 1,133 movements0.5% of 1,133 movements1.0% of 1,133 movementsdescriptive comparison
Man ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaulle2,78046.9% of 2,780 movements1.3% of 2,780 movements0.6% of 2,780 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ncl ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaulle1,04328.7% of 1,043 movements1.0% of 1,043 movements0.3% of 1,043 movementsdescriptive comparison
Sen ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaulle21421.0% of 214 movements0.5% of 214 movements0.5% of 214 movementsdescriptive comparison
Sou ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaullesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Stn ↔ Paris-Charles-De-Gaulle3444.1% of 34 movements — small sample, not rankedno events in 34 movements — small sample, not rankedno events in 34 movements — small sample, not rankedsmall sample; not ranked

Does the direction you are flying change anything?

Yes: arrivals into BRS ran 32.6% of 965 movements disrupted, departures 26.2% of 960 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 BRS32.6% of 965 movements1.9% of 965 movements0.3% of 965 movements
Departures from BRS26.2% of 960 movements1.2% of 960 movements0.2% of 960 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 202633 flights out of 5,04533 × £220 = £7,260
ArrivalsLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 202616 flights out of 3,54316 × £220 = £3,520
DeparturesWhole archive · Jan 2018–Jun 202627 flights out of 5,04027 × £220 = £5,940
DeparturesLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 202612 flights out of 3,54012 × £220 = £2,640
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 / countryPARIS (CHARLES DE GAULLE) / FRANCE
Final point codesCDG / LFPG
Great-circle distance459 km
Maximum statutory amount for the band£220
Average operated arrivals per day2.59
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 archive89

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: 965; excluded by quarantine: 0.

Quick answers

How often is this route disrupted?

32.6% of 965 movements over July 2025 to June 2026. Arrivals into the UK airport; all published carriers.

How many flights are cancelled at short notice?

1.9% of 965 movements in the same window.

How many delays crossed three hours?

0.3% of 965 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?

459 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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