UK FLIGHT DELAY INDEX

derived from CAA punctuality statistics for UK reporting airports

How often are these flights late or cancelled?

LGW ↔ ANTALYA

In the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026, 42.3% of 1,787 movements arriving into LGW were disrupted — that is, they landed more than fifteen minutes late or were cancelled at short notice.

Put the other way round, 57.7% of 1,787 movements arrived on time by the industry's fifteen-minute standard. Severe delays were rarer: about one arrival in every 105 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, 42.3% of 1,787 movements were disrupted and 1.1% of 1,787 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
42.3% of 1,787 movements1.1% of 1,787 movements35.9–56.8 min; N of delayed flights=737–1,1171,787
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: 1.1% of 1,787 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 min41.2%30 min25.2%60 min9.6%120 min2.5%180 min1.0%360 min0.2%
Delay ladder table: share, movements and one-in-N
DelayShare and nMovementsOne delay in every N operations
>15 min41.2% of 1,787 movements7372.4
>30 min25.2% of 1,787 movements4504.0
>60 min9.6% of 1,787 movements17210.4
>120 min2.5% of 1,787 movements4539.7
>180 min1.0% of 1,787 movements17105.1
>360 min0.2% of 1,787 movements4446.8
Definitions, denominators and limits

CAA counts delays strictly greater than each threshold, so exactly three hours is inseparable from the previous bucket. The ladder describes the archive, not a forecast.

Slightly late, or occasionally a disaster?

This route runs late less often than most, but when it does go wrong it tends to go badly wrong: its long delays are heavier than on the typical UK route.

The histogram below counts every recorded arrival, from more than fifteen minutes early through to more than six hours late. A tall bar near the middle and a thin right-hand tail is the healthy shape.

Nine delay buckets, minutes; share of all recorded operations>15 early27015.1%15–1 early38121.3%0–15 late38021.3%16–3028716.1%31–6027815.5%61…1201277.1%121…180281.6%181…360130.7%>36040.2%D=1,788
Definitions, denominators and limits

Ratio of the long tail to sixteen-to-sixty-minute delays: 0.0301; 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 2020, 3.7% of 81 movements. Worst month: Jul 2023, 90.3% of 308 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: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×2018Feb 2018: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Mar 2018: 36.4%; sample: 22Apr 2018: 37.1%; sample: 62May 2018: 47.0%; sample: 83Jun 2018: 64.6%; sample: 99Jul 2018: 55.2%; sample: 105Aug 2018: 50.9%; sample: 106Sep 2018: 51.0%; sample: 104Oct 2018: 36.9%; sample: 103Nov 2018: 46.2%; sample: 26Dec 2018: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jan 2019: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×2019Feb 2019: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Mar 2019: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Apr 2019: 26.3%; sample: 95May 2019: 27.7%; sample: 119Jun 2019: 47.7%; sample: 132Jul 2019: 54.7%; sample: 139Aug 2019: 57.0%; sample: 142Sep 2019: 49.6%; sample: 129Oct 2019: 41.2%; sample: 68Nov 2019: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Dec 2019: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jan 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×2020Feb 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Mar 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Apr 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×May 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jun 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jul 2020: 3.6%; sample: 28Aug 2020: 9.6%; sample: 104Sep 2020: 5.5%; sample: 109Oct 2020: 3.7%; sample: 81Nov 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: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jul 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Aug 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Sep 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Oct 2021: 26.7%; sample: 45Nov 2021: 29.2%; sample: 24Dec 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jan 2022: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×2022Feb 2022: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Mar 2022: 33.3%; sample: 33Apr 2022: 37.9%; sample: 169May 2022: 62.3%; sample: 199Jun 2022: 77.0%; sample: 243Jul 2022: 76.7%; sample: 288Aug 2022: 66.0%; sample: 291Sep 2022: 79.6%; sample: 250Oct 2022: 57.3%; sample: 225Nov 2022: 29.8%; sample: 47Dec 2022: 65.6%; sample: 32Jan 2023: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×2023Feb 2023: 41.4%; sample: 29Mar 2023: 61.1%; sample: 54Apr 2023: 60.9%; sample: 156May 2023: 63.8%; sample: 207Jun 2023: 72.2%; sample: 263Jul 2023: 90.3%; sample: 308Aug 2023: 71.7%; sample: 318Sep 2023: 71.4%; sample: 276Oct 2023: 62.4%; sample: 237Nov 2023: 43.9%; sample: 82Dec 2023: 38.2%; sample: 68Jan 2024: 20.0%; sample: 552024Feb 2024: 18.0%; sample: 61Mar 2024: 26.5%; sample: 83Apr 2024: 26.3%; sample: 171May 2024: 48.9%; sample: 219Jun 2024: 73.2%; sample: 280Jul 2024: 81.7%; sample: 306Aug 2024: 63.1%; sample: 298Sep 2024: 67.6%; sample: 272Oct 2024: 45.4%; sample: 249Nov 2024: 20.7%; sample: 87Dec 2024: 25.7%; sample: 70Jan 2025: 19.2%; sample: 522025Feb 2025: 16.7%; sample: 54Mar 2025: 12.3%; sample: 73Apr 2025: 28.2%; sample: 174May 2025: 43.2%; sample: 222Jun 2025: 48.4%; sample: 221Jul 2025: 62.6%; sample: 246Aug 2025: 51.2%; sample: 254Sep 2025: 58.1%; sample: 217Oct 2025: 43.9%; sample: 221Nov 2025: 17.9%; sample: 78Dec 2025: 9.4%; sample: 53Jan 2026: 29.6%; sample: 272026Feb 2026: 9.8%; sample: 41Mar 2026: 8.6%; sample: 70Apr 2026: 26.7%; sample: 165May 2026: 32.7%; sample: 214Jun 2026: 48.8%; sample: 201Pandemic 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 2018suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Feb 2018suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Mar 201836.4% of 22 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 201837.1% of 62 movements
May 201847.0% of 83 movements
Jun 201864.6% of 99 movements
Jul 201855.2% of 105 movements
Aug 201850.9% of 106 movements
Sep 201851.0% of 104 movements
Oct 201836.9% of 103 movements
Nov 201846.2% of 26 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 2018suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jan 2019suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Feb 2019suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Mar 2019suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Apr 201926.3% of 95 movements
May 201927.7% of 119 movements
Jun 201947.7% of 132 movements
Jul 201954.7% of 139 movements
Aug 201957.0% of 142 movements
Sep 201949.6% of 129 movements
Oct 201941.2% of 68 movements
Nov 2019suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Dec 2019suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jan 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Feb 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Mar 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Apr 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
May 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jun 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jul 20203.6% of 28 movements — small sample, not ranked
Aug 20209.6% of 104 movements
Sep 20205.5% of 109 movements
Oct 20203.7% of 81 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 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jul 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Aug 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Sep 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Oct 202126.7% of 45 movements — small sample, not ranked
Nov 202129.2% of 24 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jan 2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Feb 2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Mar 202233.3% of 33 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 202237.9% of 169 movements
May 202262.3% of 199 movements
Jun 202277.0% of 243 movements
Jul 202276.7% of 288 movements
Aug 202266.0% of 291 movements
Sep 202279.6% of 250 movements
Oct 202257.3% of 225 movements
Nov 202229.8% of 47 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202265.6% of 32 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 2023suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Feb 202341.4% of 29 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202361.1% of 54 movements
Apr 202360.9% of 156 movements
May 202363.8% of 207 movements
Jun 202372.2% of 263 movements
Jul 202390.3% of 308 movements
Aug 202371.7% of 318 movements
Sep 202371.4% of 276 movements
Oct 202362.4% of 237 movements
Nov 202343.9% of 82 movements
Dec 202338.2% of 68 movements
Jan 202420.0% of 55 movements
Feb 202418.0% of 61 movements
Mar 202426.5% of 83 movements
Apr 202426.3% of 171 movements
May 202448.9% of 219 movements
Jun 202473.2% of 280 movements
Jul 202481.7% of 306 movements
Aug 202463.1% of 298 movements
Sep 202467.6% of 272 movements
Oct 202445.4% of 249 movements
Nov 202420.7% of 87 movements
Dec 202425.7% of 70 movements
Jan 202519.2% of 52 movements
Feb 202516.7% of 54 movements
Mar 202512.3% of 73 movements
Apr 202528.2% of 174 movements
May 202543.2% of 222 movements
Jun 202548.4% of 221 movements
Jul 202562.6% of 246 movements
Aug 202551.2% of 254 movements
Sep 202558.1% of 217 movements
Oct 202543.9% of 221 movements
Nov 202517.9% of 78 movements
Dec 20259.4% of 53 movements
Jan 202629.6% of 27 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 20269.8% of 41 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 20268.6% of 70 movements
Apr 202626.7% of 165 movements
May 202632.7% of 214 movements
Jun 202648.8% of 201 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 2022Arrivals76.7% of 288 movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022Departures86.1% of 287 movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Arrivals71.7% of 318 movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Departures83.8% of 314 movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Arrivals12.3% of 73 movements42.9% across 2,141 flightsreturned the next month
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Departures20.0% of 75 movements49.6% across 2,116 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?

July has historically been the hardest month on this route: in a typical July, 69.7% of arrivals were disrupted, measured across 6 Julys in the archive. February has been the calmest, at 17.3% across 4 Februarys.

Even July has ranged from 54.7% to 90.3% 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 nJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2019suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements26.3% of 95 movements27.7% of 119 movements47.7% of 132 movements54.7% of 139 movements57.0% of 142 movements49.6% of 129 movements41.2% of 68 movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements3.6% of 28 movements †9.6% of 104 movements5.5% of 109 movements3.7% of 81 movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementsno datano datasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements26.7% of 45 movements †29.2% of 24 movements †suppressed: fewer than twenty movements2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements33.3% of 33 movements †37.9% of 169 movements62.3% of 199 movements77.0% of 243 movements76.7% of 288 movements66.0% of 291 movements79.6% of 250 movements57.3% of 225 movements29.8% of 47 movements †65.6% of 32 movements †2023suppressed: fewer than twenty movements41.4% of 29 movements †61.1% of 54 movements60.9% of 156 movements63.8% of 207 movements72.2% of 263 movements90.3% of 308 movements71.7% of 318 movements71.4% of 276 movements62.4% of 237 movements43.9% of 82 movements38.2% of 68 movements202420.0% of 55 movements18.0% of 61 movements26.5% of 83 movements26.3% of 171 movements48.9% of 219 movements73.2% of 280 movements81.7% of 306 movements63.1% of 298 movements67.6% of 272 movements45.4% of 249 movements20.7% of 87 movements25.7% of 70 movements202519.2% of 52 movements16.7% of 54 movements12.3% of 73 movements28.2% of 174 movements43.2% of 222 movements48.4% of 221 movements62.6% of 246 movements51.2% of 254 movements58.1% of 217 movements43.9% of 221 movements17.9% of 78 movements9.4% of 53 movements202629.6% of 27 movements †9.8% of 41 movements †8.6% of 70 movements26.7% of 165 movements32.7% of 214 movements48.8% of 201 movementsno datano datano datano datano datano data
Month-by-month table: median, observed range and sample
MonthMedianObserved rangeSample
Jan20.0%19.2–29.6%3 months, 134 flights
Feb17.3%9.8–41.4%4 months, 185 flights
Mar29.9%8.6–61.1%6 months, 335 flights
Apr28.2%26.3–60.9%7 months, 992 flights
May47.0%27.7–63.8%7 months, 1,263 flights
Jun64.6%47.7–77.0%7 months, 1,439 flights
Jul69.7%54.7–90.3%6 months, 1,392 flights
Aug60.1%50.9–71.7%6 months, 1,409 flights
Sep62.9%49.6–79.6%6 months, 1,248 flights
Oct44.6%36.9–62.4%6 months, 1,103 flights
Nov29.8%17.9–46.2%5 months, 320 flights
Dec32.0%9.4–65.6%4 months, 223 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: Ba Euroflyer British Airways 25.6% of 164 movements, Sunexpress 34.1% of 504 movements, Corendon Airlines 37.3% of 83 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 optionBa Euroflyer British Airways25.6% of 164 flightsCorendon Airlines37.3% of 83 flightsEasyjet Uk45.0% of 654 flightsJet2.Com †87.8% of 41 flightsSunexpress34.1% of 504 flightsTui Airways59.0% of 205 flightsWizz Air Uk42.5% of 127 flights
Airline comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
AirlineOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Ba Euroflyer British Airways16425.6% of 164 movementsno events in 164 movements1.8% of 164 movementsdescriptive comparison
British Airwayssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Corendon Airlines8337.3% of 83 movements1.2% of 83 movements1.2% of 83 movementsdescriptive comparison
Easyjet Airlinesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Easyjet Uk65445.0% of 654 movements1.4% of 654 movements0.8% of 654 movementsdescriptive comparison
Freebird Airlinessuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Hi Flysuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Jet2.Com4187.8% of 41 movements — small sample, not rankedno events in 41 movements — small sample, not ranked4.9% of 41 movements — small sample, not rankedsmall sample; not ranked
Mavi Gok Havacilik A.Ssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Monarch Airlinessuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Sunexpress50434.1% of 504 movements0.4% of 504 movementsno events in 504 movementsdescriptive comparison
Thomas Cook Airlinessuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Thy Turkish Airlinessuppressed: 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 Airways20559.0% of 205 movementsno events in 205 movements1.0% of 205 movementsdescriptive comparison
Wizz Air Uk12742.5% of 127 movements1.6% of 127 movements3.1% of 127 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, NCL had the lowest disruption share at 22.2% of 554 movements and BOH the highest at 65.8% of 114 movements. This route sits at 42.3% of 1,787 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 ↔ Antalya42.1% of 171 flightsBhx ↔ Antalya38.3% of 978 flightsBoh ↔ Antalya65.8% of 114 flightsBrs ↔ Antalya44.2% of 579 flightsCwl ↔ Antalya55.2% of 58 flightsEdi ↔ Antalya29.3% of 491 flightsEma ↔ Antalya43.2% of 271 flightsExt ↔ Antalya †50.0% of 34 flights
Airport comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
Other UK airport to the same cityOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Bfs ↔ Antalya17142.1% of 171 movements1.2% of 171 movements0.6% of 171 movementsdescriptive comparison
Bhx ↔ Antalya97838.3% of 978 movements0.7% of 978 movements0.5% of 978 movementsdescriptive comparison
Boh ↔ Antalya11465.8% of 114 movements2.6% of 114 movements0.9% of 114 movementsdescriptive comparison
Brs ↔ Antalya57944.2% of 579 movements0.3% of 579 movements1.2% of 579 movementsdescriptive comparison
Cwl ↔ Antalya5855.2% of 58 movementsno events in 58 movementsno events in 58 movementsdescriptive comparison
Doncaster-Sheffield ↔ Antalyasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Edi ↔ Antalya49129.3% of 491 movements0.2% of 491 movementsno events in 491 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ema ↔ Antalya27143.2% of 271 movements0.4% of 271 movementsno events in 271 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ext ↔ Antalya3450.0% 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
Gla ↔ Antalya49528.7% of 495 movementsno events in 495 movements0.6% of 495 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lba ↔ Antalya38532.7% of 385 movements0.3% of 385 movements0.3% of 385 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lhr ↔ Antalyasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Lpl ↔ Antalya33634.5% of 336 movementsno events in 336 movements0.3% of 336 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ltn ↔ Antalya60933.5% of 609 movements0.5% of 609 movements1.0% of 609 movementsdescriptive comparison
Man ↔ Antalya1,90745.0% of 1,907 movements1.2% of 1,907 movements0.8% of 1,907 movementsdescriptive comparison
Mme ↔ Antalyasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Ncl ↔ Antalya55422.2% of 554 movementsno events in 554 movementsno events in 554 movementsdescriptive comparison
Sen ↔ Antalya10426.0% of 104 movementsno events in 104 movementsno events in 104 movementsdescriptive comparison
Stn ↔ Antalya1,11634.9% of 1,116 movements0.1% of 1,116 movements0.5% of 1,116 movementsdescriptive comparison

Does the direction you are flying change anything?

Barely: arrivals into LGW ran 42.3% of 1,787 movements disrupted, departures 41.9% of 1,793 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 LGW42.3% of 1,787 movements1.1% of 1,787 movements1.0% of 1,787 movements
Departures from LGW41.9% of 1,793 movements0.7% of 1,793 movements0.8% of 1,793 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 2026139 flights out of 10,626139 × £350 = £48,650
ArrivalsLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 2026116 flights out of 8,978116 × £350 = £40,600
DeparturesWhole archive · Jan 2018–Jun 2026117 flights out of 10,584117 × £350 = £40,950
DeparturesLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 202695 flights out of 8,94595 × £350 = £33,250
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 airportGATWICK · LGW
Final point / countryANTALYA / TURKEY
Final point codesAYT / LTAI
Great-circle distance2,908 km
Maximum statutory amount for the band£350
Average operated arrivals per day4.84
Presence in the latest twelve-month windowoperations present in every month of the latest twelve-month window
First and last active monthJan 2018–Jun 2026
Months with operations in the archive93

origin_destination is the final point of the CAA service, not evidence of a nonstop connection. The distance joins the coordinates of the named airports; the actual track is unknown. Frequency describes published operations.

What this data cannot tell you

Delay cause is not published in the regulator's open data. Monthly aggregates describe a population, not a specific flight. Cells below twenty operations are suppressed; twenty to forty-nine are descriptive only and not ranked. Arrivals and departures do not add up. Cancellations are short-notice only, by the CAA definition. A movement is not the same as a scheduled flight.

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

Data-quality counters for this route

Zero observed events does not mean zero risk. Operator coverage against the Summary file is not established in this record; comparisons are limited to the published population.

Unmatched records: 1; all recorded operations: 1,788; excluded by quarantine: 0.

Quick answers

How often is this route disrupted?

42.3% of 1,787 movements over July 2025 to June 2026. Arrivals into the UK airport; all published carriers.

How many flights are cancelled at short notice?

1.1% of 1,787 movements in the same window.

How many delays crossed three hours?

1.0% of 1,787 movements in the same window; these are observed movements, not a count of claims.

What does the delay distribution look like?

rare but severe. The class compares the tail with short delays across routes in the corpus.

What distance is used?

2,908 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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