UK FLIGHT DELAY INDEX

derived from CAA punctuality statistics for UK reporting airports

How often are these flights late or cancelled?

LBA ↔ AMS

In the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026, 24.3% of 1,130 movements arriving into LBA were disrupted — that is, they landed more than fifteen minutes late or were cancelled at short notice.

Put the other way round, 75.7% of 1,130 movements arrived on time by the industry's fifteen-minute standard. Severe delays were rarer: about one arrival in every 1,130 crossed the three-hour mark. Lower is better on every figure on this page. These numbers describe what happened on the route; they are not a prediction for any individual flight.

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

0 operations (0.00%) excluded because their published percentages could not be reconciled to whole numbers. Excluded operations enter neither the numerator nor the denominator. Outcome figures and comparisons are unavailable when the excluded share exceeds fifteen percent.

The four numbers at a glance

In the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026, 24.3% of 1,130 movements were disrupted and 3.5% of 1,130 movements were cancelled at short notice.

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

Disruption shareShort-notice cancellationsAverage delay among delayed flights only — boundsOperations
24.3% of 1,130 movements3.5% of 1,130 movements17.1–55.1 min; N of delayed flights=236–6971,130
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: 3.5% of 1,130 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 min20.9%30 min11.2%60 min3.6%120 min0.4%180 min0.1%360 min0.1%
Delay ladder table: share, movements and one-in-N
DelayShare and nMovementsOne delay in every N operations
>15 min20.9% of 1,130 movements2364.8
>30 min11.2% of 1,130 movements1278.9
>60 min3.6% of 1,130 movements4127.6
>120 min0.4% of 1,130 movements4282.5
>180 min0.1% of 1,130 movements11,130.0
>360 min0.1% of 1,130 movements11,130.0
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?

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 early121.1%15–1 early38233.8%0–15 late46140.8%16–301099.6%31–60867.6%61…120373.3%121…18030.3%181…36000.0%>36010.1%D=1,130
Definitions, denominators and limits

Ratio of the long tail to sixteen-to-sixty-minute delays: 0.0051; 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, 1.7% of 59 movements. Worst month: Sep 2025, 50.0% of 90 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: 14.8%; sample: 1152018Feb 2018: 8.2%; sample: 110Mar 2018: 22.1%; sample: 122Apr 2018: 16.5%; sample: 127May 2018: 15.6%; sample: 122Jun 2018: 10.0%; sample: 110Jul 2018: 9.9%; sample: 111Aug 2018: 13.5%; sample: 111Sep 2018: 15.3%; sample: 118Oct 2018: 11.4%; sample: 132Nov 2018: 8.3%; sample: 121Dec 2018: 12.8%; sample: 109Jan 2019: 16.5%; sample: 1152019Feb 2019: 12.7%; sample: 110Mar 2019: 33.3%; sample: 123Apr 2019: 13.9%; sample: 122May 2019: 25.8%; sample: 128Jun 2019: 21.2%; sample: 118Jul 2019: 11.3%; sample: 106Aug 2019: 22.6%; sample: 106Sep 2019: 39.0%; sample: 118Oct 2019: 28.3%; sample: 127Nov 2019: 9.2%; sample: 120Dec 2019: 8.9%; sample: 112Jan 2020: 10.4%; sample: 1152020Feb 2020: 26.8%; sample: 112Mar 2020: 6.9%; sample: 87Apr 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×May 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jun 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jul 2020: 0.0%; sample: 27Aug 2020: 3.0%; sample: 33Sep 2020: 1.7%; sample: 59Oct 2020: 5.1%; sample: 39Nov 2020: 7.7%; sample: 26Dec 2020: 3.8%; sample: 26Jan 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: 9.1%; sample: 22Jun 2021: 0.0%; sample: 24Jul 2021: 5.3%; sample: 38Aug 2021: 13.0%; sample: 46Sep 2021: 22.2%; sample: 54Oct 2021: 14.5%; sample: 55Nov 2021: 6.7%; sample: 75Dec 2021: 22.2%; sample: 81Jan 2022: 7.7%; sample: 652022Feb 2022: 24.6%; sample: 57Mar 2022: 14.3%; sample: 77Apr 2022: 36.0%; sample: 100May 2022: 32.1%; sample: 106Jun 2022: 41.7%; sample: 96Jul 2022: 31.8%; sample: 66Aug 2022: 9.2%; sample: 65Sep 2022: 38.2%; sample: 55Oct 2022: 10.3%; sample: 58Nov 2022: 5.0%; sample: 60Dec 2022: 18.6%; sample: 59Jan 2023: 32.9%; sample: 822023Feb 2023: 16.0%; sample: 81Mar 2023: 12.5%; sample: 80Apr 2023: 19.7%; sample: 66May 2023: 20.5%; sample: 73Jun 2023: 18.4%; sample: 76Jul 2023: 37.3%; sample: 83Aug 2023: 21.2%; sample: 85Sep 2023: 37.7%; sample: 77Oct 2023: 40.2%; sample: 92Nov 2023: 30.3%; sample: 89Dec 2023: 50.0%; sample: 118Jan 2024: 32.8%; sample: 1222024Feb 2024: 29.9%; sample: 117Mar 2024: 22.8%; sample: 123Apr 2024: 19.8%; sample: 86May 2024: 18.7%; sample: 91Jun 2024: 23.3%; sample: 86Jul 2024: 21.3%; sample: 89Aug 2024: 22.7%; sample: 88Sep 2024: 37.2%; sample: 86Oct 2024: 15.4%; sample: 91Nov 2024: 21.2%; sample: 85Dec 2024: 15.1%; sample: 86Jan 2025: 30.3%; sample: 892025Feb 2025: 13.8%; sample: 80Mar 2025: 3.3%; sample: 90Apr 2025: 28.9%; sample: 90May 2025: 25.0%; sample: 92Jun 2025: 45.6%; sample: 90Jul 2025: 44.1%; sample: 93Aug 2025: 25.8%; sample: 93Sep 2025: 50.0%; sample: 90Oct 2025: 34.4%; sample: 96Nov 2025: 11.5%; sample: 104Dec 2025: 12.4%; sample: 105Jan 2026: 29.2%; sample: 892026Feb 2026: 15.2%; sample: 79Mar 2026: 10.3%; sample: 107Apr 2026: 16.7%; sample: 90May 2026: 21.3%; sample: 94Jun 2026: 25.6%; sample: 90Pandemic 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 201814.8% of 115 movements
Feb 20188.2% of 110 movements
Mar 201822.1% of 122 movements
Apr 201816.5% of 127 movements
May 201815.6% of 122 movements
Jun 201810.0% of 110 movements
Jul 20189.9% of 111 movements
Aug 201813.5% of 111 movements
Sep 201815.3% of 118 movements
Oct 201811.4% of 132 movements
Nov 20188.3% of 121 movements
Dec 201812.8% of 109 movements
Jan 201916.5% of 115 movements
Feb 201912.7% of 110 movements
Mar 201933.3% of 123 movements
Apr 201913.9% of 122 movements
May 201925.8% of 128 movements
Jun 201921.2% of 118 movements
Jul 201911.3% of 106 movements
Aug 201922.6% of 106 movements
Sep 201939.0% of 118 movements
Oct 201928.3% of 127 movements
Nov 20199.2% of 120 movements
Dec 20198.9% of 112 movements
Jan 202010.4% of 115 movements
Feb 202026.8% of 112 movements
Mar 20206.9% of 87 movements
Apr 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
May 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jun 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jul 2020no events in 27 movements — small sample, not ranked
Aug 20203.0% of 33 movements — small sample, not ranked
Sep 20201.7% of 59 movements
Oct 20205.1% of 39 movements — small sample, not ranked
Nov 20207.7% of 26 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 20203.8% of 26 movements — small sample, not ranked
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 20219.1% of 22 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jun 2021no events in 24 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jul 20215.3% of 38 movements — small sample, not ranked
Aug 202113.0% of 46 movements — small sample, not ranked
Sep 202122.2% of 54 movements
Oct 202114.5% of 55 movements
Nov 20216.7% of 75 movements
Dec 202122.2% of 81 movements
Jan 20227.7% of 65 movements
Feb 202224.6% of 57 movements
Mar 202214.3% of 77 movements
Apr 202236.0% of 100 movements
May 202232.1% of 106 movements
Jun 202241.7% of 96 movements
Jul 202231.8% of 66 movements
Aug 20229.2% of 65 movements
Sep 202238.2% of 55 movements
Oct 202210.3% of 58 movements
Nov 20225.0% of 60 movements
Dec 202218.6% of 59 movements
Jan 202332.9% of 82 movements
Feb 202316.0% of 81 movements
Mar 202312.5% of 80 movements
Apr 202319.7% of 66 movements
May 202320.5% of 73 movements
Jun 202318.4% of 76 movements
Jul 202337.3% of 83 movements
Aug 202321.2% of 85 movements
Sep 202337.7% of 77 movements
Oct 202340.2% of 92 movements
Nov 202330.3% of 89 movements
Dec 202350.0% of 118 movements
Jan 202432.8% of 122 movements
Feb 202429.9% of 117 movements
Mar 202422.8% of 123 movements
Apr 202419.8% of 86 movements
May 202418.7% of 91 movements
Jun 202423.3% of 86 movements
Jul 202421.3% of 89 movements
Aug 202422.7% of 88 movements
Sep 202437.2% of 86 movements
Oct 202415.4% of 91 movements
Nov 202421.2% of 85 movements
Dec 202415.1% of 86 movements
Jan 202530.3% of 89 movements
Feb 202513.8% of 80 movements
Mar 20253.3% of 90 movements
Apr 202528.9% of 90 movements
May 202525.0% of 92 movements
Jun 202545.6% of 90 movements
Jul 202544.1% of 93 movements
Aug 202525.8% of 93 movements
Sep 202550.0% of 90 movements
Oct 202534.4% of 96 movements
Nov 202511.5% of 104 movements
Dec 202512.4% of 105 movements
Jan 202629.2% of 89 movements
Feb 202615.2% of 79 movements
Mar 202610.3% of 107 movements
Apr 202616.7% of 90 movements
May 202621.3% of 94 movements
Jun 202625.6% of 90 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 2022Arrivals31.8% of 66 movements20.0% across 850 flightsreturned the next month
Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022Departures52.2% of 67 movements31.7% across 849 flightsreturned after 4 months
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Arrivals21.2% of 85 movements19.9% across 838 flightsreturned after 8 months
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Departures26.2% of 84 movements33.6% across 835 flightsreturned after 6 months
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Arrivals3.3% of 90 movements21.8% across 1,080 flightsreturned after 8 months
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Departures17.0% of 88 movements31.1% across 1,076 flightsreturned after 8 months
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, 37.9% of arrivals were disrupted, measured across 6 Septembers in the archive. November has been the calmest, at 10.4% across 6 Novembers.

Even September has ranged from 15.3% to 50.0% 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 nJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec201916.5% of 115 movements12.7% of 110 movements33.3% of 123 movements13.9% of 122 movements25.8% of 128 movements21.2% of 118 movements11.3% of 106 movements22.6% of 106 movements39.0% of 118 movements28.3% of 127 movements9.2% of 120 movements8.9% of 112 movements202010.4% of 115 movements26.8% of 112 movements6.9% of 87 movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementsno events in 27 movements †3.0% of 33 movements †1.7% of 59 movements5.1% of 39 movements †7.7% of 26 movements †3.8% of 26 movements †2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements9.1% of 22 movements †no events in 24 movements †5.3% of 38 movements †13.0% of 46 movements †22.2% of 54 movements14.5% of 55 movements6.7% of 75 movements22.2% of 81 movements20227.7% of 65 movements24.6% of 57 movements14.3% of 77 movements36.0% of 100 movements32.1% of 106 movements41.7% of 96 movements31.8% of 66 movements9.2% of 65 movements38.2% of 55 movements10.3% of 58 movements5.0% of 60 movements18.6% of 59 movements202332.9% of 82 movements16.0% of 81 movements12.5% of 80 movements19.7% of 66 movements20.5% of 73 movements18.4% of 76 movements37.3% of 83 movements21.2% of 85 movements37.7% of 77 movements40.2% of 92 movements30.3% of 89 movements50.0% of 118 movements202432.8% of 122 movements29.9% of 117 movements22.8% of 123 movements19.8% of 86 movements18.7% of 91 movements23.3% of 86 movements21.3% of 89 movements22.7% of 88 movements37.2% of 86 movements15.4% of 91 movements21.2% of 85 movements15.1% of 86 movements202530.3% of 89 movements13.8% of 80 movements3.3% of 90 movements28.9% of 90 movements25.0% of 92 movements45.6% of 90 movements44.1% of 93 movements25.8% of 93 movements50.0% of 90 movements34.4% of 96 movements11.5% of 104 movements12.4% of 105 movements202629.2% of 89 movements15.2% of 79 movements10.3% of 107 movements16.7% of 90 movements21.3% of 94 movements25.6% of 90 movementsno datano datano datano datano datano data
Month-by-month table: median, observed range and sample
MonthMedianObserved rangeSample
Jan29.2%7.7–32.9%7 months, 677 flights
Feb15.2%8.2–29.9%7 months, 634 flights
Mar14.3%3.3–33.3%7 months, 722 flights
Apr19.7%13.9–36.0%7 months, 681 flights
May21.3%15.6–32.1%7 months, 706 flights
Jun23.3%10.0–45.6%7 months, 666 flights
Jul26.6%9.9–44.1%6 months, 548 flights
Aug21.9%9.2–25.8%6 months, 548 flights
Sep37.9%15.3–50.0%6 months, 544 flights
Oct21.9%10.3–40.2%6 months, 596 flights
Nov10.4%5.0–30.3%6 months, 579 flights
Dec14.0%8.9–50.0%6 months, 589 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: Klm, 24.3% of 1,129 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 optionKlm24.3% of 1,129 flights
Airline comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
AirlineOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Easyjet Airlinesuppressed: 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
Jet2.Comsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Klm1,12924.3% of 1,129 movements3.5% of 1,129 movements0.1% of 1,129 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ryanairsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Trade Airsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Unknownsuppressed: 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, LCY had the lowest disruption share at 16.7% of 3,758 movements and BFS the highest at 41.3% of 213 movements. This route sits at 24.3% of 1,130 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 ↔ Ams22.9% of 1,715 flightsBfs ↔ Ams41.3% of 213 flightsBhd ↔ Ams18.9% of 661 flightsBhx ↔ Ams26.0% of 2,325 flightsBrs ↔ Ams30.4% of 2,208 flightsCwl ↔ Ams22.2% of 729 flightsEdi ↔ Ams27.9% of 2,433 flightsExt ↔ Ams18.5% of 356 flights
Airport comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
Other UK airport to the same cityOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Abz ↔ Ams1,71522.9% of 1,715 movements4.2% of 1,715 movementsno events in 1,715 movementsdescriptive comparison
Bfs ↔ Ams21341.3% of 213 movements2.3% of 213 movements0.5% of 213 movementsdescriptive comparison
Bhd ↔ Ams66118.9% of 661 movements2.1% of 661 movementsno events in 661 movementsdescriptive comparison
Bhx ↔ Ams2,32526.0% of 2,325 movements2.9% of 2,325 movements0.3% of 2,325 movementsdescriptive comparison
Boh ↔ Amssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Brs ↔ Ams2,20830.4% of 2,208 movements2.4% of 2,208 movements0.6% of 2,208 movementsdescriptive comparison
Cwl ↔ Ams72922.2% of 729 movements4.1% of 729 movements0.4% of 729 movementsdescriptive comparison
Doncaster-Sheffield ↔ Amssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Durham-Tees-Valley ↔ Amssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Edi ↔ Ams2,43327.9% of 2,433 movements2.7% of 2,433 movements0.4% of 2,433 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ema ↔ Amssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Ext ↔ Ams35618.5% of 356 movements4.2% of 356 movementsno events in 356 movementsdescriptive comparison
Gla ↔ Ams1,56025.7% of 1,560 movements2.2% of 1,560 movements0.3% of 1,560 movementsdescriptive comparison
Jer ↔ Amssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Lcy ↔ Ams3,75816.7% of 3,758 movements2.8% of 3,758 movements0.3% of 3,758 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lgw ↔ Ams1,82127.3% of 1,821 movements2.1% of 1,821 movements0.6% of 1,821 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lhr ↔ Ams5,65524.4% of 5,655 movements2.6% of 5,655 movements0.3% of 5,655 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lpl ↔ Ams39223.7% of 392 movements2.3% of 392 movements0.3% of 392 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ltn ↔ Ams1,65330.2% of 1,653 movements1.7% of 1,653 movements0.7% of 1,653 movementsdescriptive comparison
Man ↔ Ams3,77738.4% of 3,777 movements2.4% of 3,777 movements0.5% of 3,777 movementsdescriptive comparison
Mme ↔ Ams84623.0% of 846 movements4.3% of 846 movements0.4% of 846 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ncl ↔ Ams1,82928.0% of 1,829 movements1.6% of 1,829 movements0.5% of 1,829 movementsdescriptive comparison
Sen ↔ Ams25026.8% of 250 movements0.4% of 250 movementsno events in 250 movementsdescriptive comparison
Sou ↔ Ams78923.3% of 789 movements3.0% of 789 movements0.3% of 789 movementsdescriptive comparison
Stn ↔ Ams49325.4% of 493 movements2.2% of 493 movements0.2% of 493 movementsdescriptive comparison

Does the direction you are flying change anything?

Yes: arrivals into LBA ran 24.3% of 1,130 movements disrupted, departures 35.4% of 1,125 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 LBA24.3% of 1,130 movements3.5% of 1,130 movements0.1% of 1,130 movements
Departures from LBA35.4% of 1,125 movements3.6% of 1,125 movements0.4% of 1,125 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 8,43215 × £220 = £3,300
ArrivalsLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 20266 flights out of 5,3046 × £220 = £1,320
DeparturesWhole archive · Jan 2018–Jun 202652 flights out of 8,41352 × £220 = £11,440
DeparturesLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 202633 flights out of 5,28933 × £220 = £7,260
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 airportLEEDS BRADFORD · LBA
Final point / countryAMSTERDAM / NETHERLANDS
Final point codesAMS / EHAM
Great-circle distance462 km
Maximum statutory amount for the band£220
Average operated arrivals per day2.99
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 archive98

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: 1,130; excluded by quarantine: 0.

Quick answers

How often is this route disrupted?

24.3% of 1,130 movements over July 2025 to June 2026. Arrivals into the UK airport; all published carriers.

How many flights are cancelled at short notice?

3.5% of 1,130 movements in the same window.

How many delays crossed three hours?

0.1% of 1,130 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?

462 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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