UK FLIGHT DELAY INDEX

derived from CAA punctuality statistics for UK reporting airports

How often are these flights late or cancelled?

LCY ↔ LUXEMBOURG

In the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026, 23.5% of 1,565 movements arriving into LCY were disrupted — that is, they landed more than fifteen minutes late or were cancelled at short notice.

Put the other way round, 76.5% of 1,565 movements arrived on time by the industry's fifteen-minute standard. Severe delays were rarer: no such event in this sample, which does not mean zero risk 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, 23.5% of 1,565 movements were disrupted and 2.2% of 1,565 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
23.5% of 1,565 movements2.2% of 1,565 movements19.1–54.0 min; N of delayed flights=332–8591,565
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: 2.2% of 1,565 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 min21.2%30 min11.5%60 min4.4%120 min0.5%180 min0.0%360 min0.0%
Delay ladder table: share, movements and one-in-N
DelayShare and nMovementsOne delay in every N operations
>15 min21.2% of 1,565 movements3324.7
>30 min11.5% of 1,565 movements1808.7
>60 min4.4% of 1,565 movements6922.7
>120 min0.5% of 1,565 movements8195.6
>180 minno events in 1,565 movements0no observed events, which is not zero risk
>360 minno events in 1,565 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 early301.9%15–1 early64141.0%0–15 late52733.7%16–301529.7%31–601117.1%61…120613.9%121…18080.5%181…36000.0%>36000.0%D=1,565
Definitions, denominators and limits

Ratio of the long tail to sixteen-to-sixty-minute delays: 0.0000; 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: Oct 2021, no events in 53 movements. Worst month: Dec 2022, 34.5% of 148 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: 10.9%; sample: 1562018Feb 2018: 23.7%; sample: 139Mar 2018: 16.7%; sample: 156Apr 2018: 13.3%; sample: 165May 2018: 12.6%; sample: 175Jun 2018: 15.4%; sample: 169Jul 2018: 10.1%; sample: 138Aug 2018: 7.5%; sample: 134Sep 2018: 8.2%; sample: 158Oct 2018: 10.9%; sample: 174Nov 2018: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Dec 2018: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jan 2019: 13.5%; sample: 1482019Feb 2019: 14.7%; sample: 136Mar 2019: 18.8%; sample: 149Apr 2019: 23.1%; sample: 169May 2019: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jun 2019: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jul 2019: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Aug 2019: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Sep 2019: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Oct 2019: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Nov 2019: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Dec 2019: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jan 2020: 10.3%; sample: 1452020Feb 2020: 33.3%; sample: 141Mar 2020: 20.9%; sample: 86Apr 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×May 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jun 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jul 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Aug 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Sep 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Oct 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Nov 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Dec 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jan 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×2021Feb 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Mar 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Apr 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×May 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jun 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jul 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Aug 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Sep 2021: 0.0%; sample: 31Oct 2021: 0.0%; sample: 53Nov 2021: 4.0%; sample: 75Dec 2021: 2.8%; sample: 71Jan 2022: 0.0%; sample: 342022Feb 2022: 11.9%; sample: 67Mar 2022: 7.9%; sample: 140Apr 2022: 14.7%; sample: 211May 2022: 8.4%; sample: 226Jun 2022: 17.6%; sample: 210Jul 2022: 14.1%; sample: 185Aug 2022: 10.5%; sample: 181Sep 2022: 19.3%; sample: 202Oct 2022: 15.5%; sample: 193Nov 2022: 9.9%; sample: 142Dec 2022: 34.5%; sample: 148Jan 2023: 17.2%; sample: 1452023Feb 2023: 15.2%; sample: 125Mar 2023: 21.5%; sample: 135Apr 2023: 14.7%; sample: 143May 2023: 14.6%; sample: 158Jun 2023: 18.9%; sample: 159Jul 2023: 10.4%; sample: 144Aug 2023: 18.5%; sample: 135Sep 2023: 17.5%; sample: 143Oct 2023: 21.5%; sample: 149Nov 2023: 25.2%; sample: 139Dec 2023: 28.1%; sample: 135Jan 2024: 21.1%; sample: 1282024Feb 2024: 13.1%; sample: 130Mar 2024: 9.8%; sample: 133Apr 2024: 12.4%; sample: 137May 2024: 18.2%; sample: 143Jun 2024: 19.4%; sample: 134Jul 2024: 17.4%; sample: 121Aug 2024: 14.7%; sample: 116Sep 2024: 22.1%; sample: 131Oct 2024: 23.0%; sample: 139Nov 2024: 18.0%; sample: 128Dec 2024: 30.8%; sample: 120Jan 2025: 18.4%; sample: 1252025Feb 2025: 9.2%; sample: 119Mar 2025: 13.5%; sample: 133Apr 2025: 9.0%; sample: 122May 2025: 21.1%; sample: 128Jun 2025: 27.3%; sample: 128Jul 2025: 33.0%; sample: 109Aug 2025: 16.7%; sample: 102Sep 2025: 32.8%; sample: 131Oct 2025: 25.7%; sample: 136Nov 2025: 23.3%; sample: 133Dec 2025: 24.8%; sample: 137Jan 2026: 19.4%; sample: 1292026Feb 2026: 18.3%; sample: 126Mar 2026: 20.6%; sample: 141Apr 2026: 17.5%; sample: 143May 2026: 23.2%; sample: 138Jun 2026: 26.4%; sample: 140Pandemic regime Jun 2020Summer 2022 breakdown Jul 2022NATS system failure Aug 2023Heathrow fire closure Mar 2025100%0%
Every month since 2018, including gaps and suppressed cells
MonthDisruption on arrivals
Jan 201810.9% of 156 movements
Feb 201823.7% of 139 movements
Mar 201816.7% of 156 movements
Apr 201813.3% of 165 movements
May 201812.6% of 175 movements
Jun 201815.4% of 169 movements
Jul 201810.1% of 138 movements
Aug 20187.5% of 134 movements
Sep 20188.2% of 158 movements
Oct 201810.9% of 174 movements
Nov 2018suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Dec 2018suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jan 201913.5% of 148 movements
Feb 201914.7% of 136 movements
Mar 201918.8% of 149 movements
Apr 201923.1% of 169 movements
May 2019suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jun 2019suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jul 2019suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Aug 2019suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Sep 2019suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Oct 2019suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Nov 2019suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Dec 2019suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jan 202010.3% of 145 movements
Feb 202033.3% of 141 movements
Mar 202020.9% of 86 movements
Apr 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
May 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jun 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jul 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Aug 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Sep 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Oct 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Nov 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Dec 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jan 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Feb 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Mar 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Apr 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
May 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jun 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jul 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Aug 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Sep 2021no events in 31 movements — small sample, not ranked
Oct 2021no events in 53 movements
Nov 20214.0% of 75 movements
Dec 20212.8% of 71 movements
Jan 2022no events in 34 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202211.9% of 67 movements
Mar 20227.9% of 140 movements
Apr 202214.7% of 211 movements
May 20228.4% of 226 movements
Jun 202217.6% of 210 movements
Jul 202214.1% of 185 movements
Aug 202210.5% of 181 movements
Sep 202219.3% of 202 movements
Oct 202215.5% of 193 movements
Nov 20229.9% of 142 movements
Dec 202234.5% of 148 movements
Jan 202317.2% of 145 movements
Feb 202315.2% of 125 movements
Mar 202321.5% of 135 movements
Apr 202314.7% of 143 movements
May 202314.6% of 158 movements
Jun 202318.9% of 159 movements
Jul 202310.4% of 144 movements
Aug 202318.5% of 135 movements
Sep 202317.5% of 143 movements
Oct 202321.5% of 149 movements
Nov 202325.2% of 139 movements
Dec 202328.1% of 135 movements
Jan 202421.1% of 128 movements
Feb 202413.1% of 130 movements
Mar 20249.8% of 133 movements
Apr 202412.4% of 137 movements
May 202418.2% of 143 movements
Jun 202419.4% of 134 movements
Jul 202417.4% of 121 movements
Aug 202414.7% of 116 movements
Sep 202422.1% of 131 movements
Oct 202423.0% of 139 movements
Nov 202418.0% of 128 movements
Dec 202430.8% of 120 movements
Jan 202518.4% of 125 movements
Feb 20259.2% of 119 movements
Mar 202513.5% of 133 movements
Apr 20259.0% of 122 movements
May 202521.1% of 128 movements
Jun 202527.3% of 128 movements
Jul 202533.0% of 109 movements
Aug 202516.7% of 102 movements
Sep 202532.8% of 131 movements
Oct 202525.7% of 136 movements
Nov 202523.3% of 133 movements
Dec 202524.8% of 137 movements
Jan 202619.4% of 129 movements
Feb 202618.3% of 126 movements
Mar 202620.6% of 141 movements
Apr 202617.5% of 143 movements
May 202623.2% of 138 movements
Jun 202626.4% of 140 movements

What did the big disruptions actually do here?

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

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

EventDirectionDisruption that monthBaseline beforeReturn to baseline
Pandemic regime · Jun 2020Arrivalssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
Pandemic regime · Jun 2020Departuressuppressed: fewer than twenty movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022Arrivals14.1% of 185 movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022Departures42.5% of 186 movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Arrivals18.5% of 135 movements16.8% across 1,875 flightsreturned after 6 months
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Departures28.5% of 137 movements27.0% across 1,880 flightsreturned after 6 months
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Arrivals13.5% of 133 movements17.8% across 1,546 flightsreturned the next month
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Departures19.4% of 134 movements30.6% across 1,553 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?

December has historically been the hardest month on this route: in a typical December, 29.5% of arrivals were disrupted, measured across 4 Decembers in the archive. July has been the calmest, at 14.1% across 5 Julys.

Even December has ranged from 24.8% to 34.5% 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 nJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec201913.5% of 148 movements14.7% of 136 movements18.8% of 149 movements23.1% of 169 movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements202010.3% of 145 movements33.3% of 141 movements20.9% of 86 movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementsno events in 31 movements †no events in 53 movements4.0% of 75 movements2.8% of 71 movements2022no events in 34 movements †11.9% of 67 movements7.9% of 140 movements14.7% of 211 movements8.4% of 226 movements17.6% of 210 movements14.1% of 185 movements10.5% of 181 movements19.3% of 202 movements15.5% of 193 movements9.9% of 142 movements34.5% of 148 movements202317.2% of 145 movements15.2% of 125 movements21.5% of 135 movements14.7% of 143 movements14.6% of 158 movements18.9% of 159 movements10.4% of 144 movements18.5% of 135 movements17.5% of 143 movements21.5% of 149 movements25.2% of 139 movements28.1% of 135 movements202421.1% of 128 movements13.1% of 130 movements9.8% of 133 movements12.4% of 137 movements18.2% of 143 movements19.4% of 134 movements17.4% of 121 movements14.7% of 116 movements22.1% of 131 movements23.0% of 139 movements18.0% of 128 movements30.8% of 120 movements202518.4% of 125 movements9.2% of 119 movements13.5% of 133 movements9.0% of 122 movements21.1% of 128 movements27.3% of 128 movements33.0% of 109 movements16.7% of 102 movements32.8% of 131 movements25.7% of 136 movements23.3% of 133 movements24.8% of 137 movements202619.4% of 129 movements18.3% of 126 movements20.6% of 141 movements17.5% of 143 movements23.2% of 138 movements26.4% of 140 movementsno datano datano datano datano datano data
Month-by-month table: median, observed range and sample
MonthMedianObserved rangeSample
Jan17.2%0.0–21.1%7 months, 865 flights
Feb14.7%9.2–23.7%7 months, 842 flights
Mar16.7%7.9–21.5%7 months, 987 flights
Apr14.7%9.0–23.1%7 months, 1,090 flights
May16.4%8.4–23.2%6 months, 968 flights
Jun19.1%15.4–27.3%6 months, 940 flights
Jul14.1%10.1–33.0%5 months, 697 flights
Aug14.7%7.5–18.5%5 months, 668 flights
Sep19.3%8.2–32.8%5 months, 765 flights
Oct21.5%10.9–25.7%5 months, 791 flights
Nov20.6%9.9–25.2%4 months, 542 flights
Dec29.5%24.8–34.5%4 months, 540 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: Luxair, 23.5% of 1,565 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 optionLuxair23.5% of 1,565 flights
Airline comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
AirlineOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Ba Cityflyersuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Luxair1,56523.5% of 1,565 movements2.2% of 1,565 movementsno events in 1,565 movementsdescriptive comparison

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, LHR had the lowest disruption share at 16.7% of 663 movements and STN the highest at 30.1% of 512 movements. This route sits at 23.5% of 1,565 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 optionLhr ↔ Luxembourg16.7% of 663 flightsMan ↔ Luxembourg27.1% of 129 flightsStn ↔ Luxembourg30.1% of 512 flights
Airport comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
Other UK airport to the same cityOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Bfs ↔ Luxembourgsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Bhx ↔ Luxembourgsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Boh ↔ Luxembourgsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Edi ↔ Luxembourgsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Ema ↔ Luxembourgsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Gla ↔ Luxembourgsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Jer ↔ Luxembourgsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Lgw ↔ Luxembourgsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Lhr ↔ Luxembourg66316.7% of 663 movements1.2% of 663 movements0.5% of 663 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lpl ↔ Luxembourgsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Ltn ↔ Luxembourgsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Man ↔ Luxembourg12927.1% of 129 movements1.6% of 129 movementsno events in 129 movementsdescriptive comparison
Sen ↔ Luxembourgsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Stn ↔ Luxembourg51230.1% of 512 movements0.2% of 512 movements1.4% of 512 movementsdescriptive comparison

Does the direction you are flying change anything?

Yes: arrivals into LCY ran 23.5% of 1,565 movements disrupted, departures 37.3% of 1,572 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 LCY23.5% of 1,565 movements2.2% of 1,565 movementsno events in 1,565 movements
Departures from LCY37.3% of 1,572 movements2.9% of 1,572 movements0.1% of 1,572 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 202610 flights out of 10,51010 × £220 = £2,200
ArrivalsLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 20268 flights out of 7,9588 × £220 = £1,760
DeparturesWhole archive · Jan 2018–Jun 202615 flights out of 10,57915 × £220 = £3,300
DeparturesLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 202613 flights out of 7,99113 × £220 = £2,860
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 airportLONDON CITY · LCY
Final point / countryLUXEMBOURG / LUXEMBOURG
Final point codesLUX / ELLX
Great-circle distance482 km
Maximum statutory amount for the band£220
Average operated arrivals per day4.19
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 archive96

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: 1,565; excluded by quarantine: 0.

Quick answers

How often is this route disrupted?

23.5% of 1,565 movements over July 2025 to June 2026. Arrivals into the UK airport; all published carriers.

How many flights are cancelled at short notice?

2.2% of 1,565 movements in the same window.

How many delays crossed three hours?

no events in 1,565 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?

482 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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