UK FLIGHT DELAY INDEX

derived from CAA punctuality statistics for UK reporting airports

How often are these flights late or cancelled?

LGW ↔ MARSEILLE

In the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026, 34.2% of 521 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, 65.8% of 521 movements arrived on time by the industry's fifteen-minute standard. Severe delays were rarer: about one arrival in every 65 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, 34.2% of 521 movements were disrupted and 1.3% of 521 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
34.2% of 521 movements1.3% of 521 movements38.6–71.2 min; N of delayed flights=171–302521
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: 1.3% of 521 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 min32.8%30 min21.7%60 min12.3%120 min3.6%180 min1.5%360 min0.0%
Delay ladder table: share, movements and one-in-N
DelayShare and nMovementsOne delay in every N operations
>15 min32.8% of 521 movements1713.0
>30 min21.7% of 521 movements1134.6
>60 min12.3% of 521 movements648.1
>120 min3.6% of 521 movements1927.4
>180 min1.5% of 521 movements865.1
>360 minno events in 521 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?

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 early6913.2%15–1 early14327.4%0–15 late13125.1%16–305811.1%31–60499.4%61…120458.6%121…180112.1%181…36081.5%>36000.0%D=521
Definitions, denominators and limits

Ratio of the long tail to sixteen-to-sixty-minute delays: 0.0748; 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 2025, 24.1% of 54 movements. Worst month: Sep 2023, 90.7% of 54 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: 32.0%; sample: 252018Feb 2018: 18.5%; sample: 27Mar 2018: 27.8%; sample: 36Apr 2018: 32.7%; sample: 52May 2018: 51.8%; sample: 56Jun 2018: 68.3%; sample: 60Jul 2018: 71.9%; sample: 64Aug 2018: 72.7%; sample: 66Sep 2018: 38.9%; sample: 54Oct 2018: 41.0%; sample: 39Nov 2018: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Dec 2018: 51.2%; sample: 41Jan 2019: 26.1%; sample: 232019Feb 2019: 41.4%; sample: 29Mar 2019: 33.3%; sample: 36Apr 2019: 41.2%; sample: 51May 2019: 49.1%; sample: 53Jun 2019: 58.5%; sample: 53Jul 2019: 71.2%; sample: 59Aug 2019: 68.3%; sample: 63Sep 2019: 59.2%; sample: 49Oct 2019: 48.9%; sample: 45Nov 2019: 12.0%; sample: 25Dec 2019: 42.6%; sample: 47Jan 2020: 32.1%; sample: 282020Feb 2020: 51.4%; sample: 35Mar 2020: 39.4%; sample: 33Apr 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: 27Sep 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: 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: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Oct 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Nov 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Dec 2021: 0.0%; sample: 23Jan 2022: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×2022Feb 2022: 21.7%; sample: 23Mar 2022: 10.0%; sample: 30Apr 2022: 41.5%; sample: 41May 2022: 58.3%; sample: 36Jun 2022: 65.9%; sample: 41Jul 2022: 77.8%; sample: 63Aug 2022: 57.1%; sample: 70Sep 2022: 64.6%; sample: 48Oct 2022: 50.0%; sample: 44Nov 2022: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Dec 2022: 58.3%; sample: 24Jan 2023: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×2023Feb 2023: 20.0%; sample: 25Mar 2023: 75.0%; sample: 28Apr 2023: 83.9%; sample: 31May 2023: 77.3%; sample: 44Jun 2023: 91.1%; sample: 45Jul 2023: 86.1%; sample: 72Aug 2023: 81.8%; sample: 66Sep 2023: 90.7%; sample: 54Oct 2023: 61.4%; sample: 57Nov 2023: 34.8%; sample: 23Dec 2023: 62.8%; sample: 43Jan 2024: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×2024Feb 2024: 40.0%; sample: 25Mar 2024: 31.0%; sample: 29Apr 2024: 34.9%; sample: 43May 2024: 34.9%; sample: 43Jun 2024: 63.5%; sample: 52Jul 2024: 65.7%; sample: 67Aug 2024: 66.7%; sample: 66Sep 2024: 77.1%; sample: 48Oct 2024: 58.3%; sample: 48Nov 2024: 17.4%; sample: 23Dec 2024: 46.4%; sample: 56Jan 2025: 30.8%; sample: 262025Feb 2025: 25.0%; sample: 24Mar 2025: 21.2%; sample: 33Apr 2025: 11.4%; sample: 44May 2025: 36.7%; sample: 49Jun 2025: 52.9%; sample: 51Jul 2025: 71.0%; sample: 62Aug 2025: 46.8%; sample: 62Sep 2025: 49.0%; sample: 51Oct 2025: 24.1%; sample: 54Nov 2025: 20.0%; sample: 25Dec 2025: 15.6%; sample: 45Jan 2026: 15.0%; sample: 202026Feb 2026: 11.5%; sample: 26Mar 2026: 14.7%; sample: 34Apr 2026: 15.6%; sample: 45May 2026: 24.5%; sample: 49Jun 2026: 52.1%; sample: 48Pandemic 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 201832.0% of 25 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 201818.5% of 27 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 201827.8% of 36 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 201832.7% of 52 movements
May 201851.8% of 56 movements
Jun 201868.3% of 60 movements
Jul 201871.9% of 64 movements
Aug 201872.7% of 66 movements
Sep 201838.9% of 54 movements
Oct 201841.0% of 39 movements — small sample, not ranked
Nov 2018suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Dec 201851.2% of 41 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 201926.1% of 23 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 201941.4% of 29 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 201933.3% of 36 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 201941.2% of 51 movements
May 201949.1% of 53 movements
Jun 201958.5% of 53 movements
Jul 201971.2% of 59 movements
Aug 201968.3% of 63 movements
Sep 201959.2% of 49 movements — small sample, not ranked
Oct 201948.9% of 45 movements — small sample, not ranked
Nov 201912.0% of 25 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 201942.6% of 47 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 202032.1% of 28 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202051.4% of 35 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202039.4% of 33 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 27 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 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
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 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Nov 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Dec 2021no events in 23 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Feb 202221.7% of 23 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202210.0% of 30 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 202241.5% of 41 movements — small sample, not ranked
May 202258.3% of 36 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jun 202265.9% of 41 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jul 202277.8% of 63 movements
Aug 202257.1% of 70 movements
Sep 202264.6% of 48 movements — small sample, not ranked
Oct 202250.0% of 44 movements — small sample, not ranked
Nov 2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Dec 202258.3% of 24 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 2023suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Feb 202320.0% of 25 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202375.0% of 28 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 202383.9% of 31 movements — small sample, not ranked
May 202377.3% of 44 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jun 202391.1% of 45 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jul 202386.1% of 72 movements
Aug 202381.8% of 66 movements
Sep 202390.7% of 54 movements
Oct 202361.4% of 57 movements
Nov 202334.8% of 23 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202362.8% of 43 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 2024suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Feb 202440.0% of 25 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202431.0% of 29 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 202434.9% of 43 movements — small sample, not ranked
May 202434.9% of 43 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jun 202463.5% of 52 movements
Jul 202465.7% of 67 movements
Aug 202466.7% of 66 movements
Sep 202477.1% of 48 movements — small sample, not ranked
Oct 202458.3% of 48 movements — small sample, not ranked
Nov 202417.4% of 23 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202446.4% of 56 movements
Jan 202530.8% of 26 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202525.0% of 24 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202521.2% of 33 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 202511.4% of 44 movements — small sample, not ranked
May 202536.7% of 49 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jun 202552.9% of 51 movements
Jul 202571.0% of 62 movements
Aug 202546.8% of 62 movements
Sep 202549.0% of 51 movements
Oct 202524.1% of 54 movements
Nov 202520.0% of 25 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202515.6% of 45 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 202615.0% of 20 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202611.5% of 26 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202614.7% of 34 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 202615.6% of 45 movements — small sample, not ranked
May 202624.5% of 49 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jun 202652.1% of 48 movements — small sample, not ranked

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 2022Arrivals77.8% of 63 movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022Departures66.7% of 63 movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Arrivals81.8% of 66 movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Departures65.2% of 66 movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Arrivals21.2% of 33 movements — small sample, not ranked46.0% across 525 flightsreturned the next month
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Departures21.2% of 33 movements — small sample, not ranked38.6% across 525 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, 71.5% of arrivals were disrupted, measured across 6 Julys in the archive. November has been the calmest, at 18.7% across 4 Novembers.

Even July has ranged from 65.7% to 86.1% 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 nJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec201926.1% of 23 movements †41.4% of 29 movements †33.3% of 36 movements †41.2% of 51 movements49.1% of 53 movements58.5% of 53 movements71.2% of 59 movements68.3% of 63 movements59.2% of 49 movements †48.9% of 45 movements †12.0% of 25 movements †42.6% of 47 movements †202032.1% of 28 movements †51.4% of 35 movements †39.4% of 33 movements †suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementsno events in 27 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 datasuppressed: 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 23 movements †2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movements21.7% of 23 movements †10.0% of 30 movements †41.5% of 41 movements †58.3% of 36 movements †65.9% of 41 movements †77.8% of 63 movements57.1% of 70 movements64.6% of 48 movements †50.0% of 44 movements †suppressed: fewer than twenty movements58.3% of 24 movements †2023suppressed: fewer than twenty movements20.0% of 25 movements †75.0% of 28 movements †83.9% of 31 movements †77.3% of 44 movements †91.1% of 45 movements †86.1% of 72 movements81.8% of 66 movements90.7% of 54 movements61.4% of 57 movements34.8% of 23 movements †62.8% of 43 movements †2024suppressed: fewer than twenty movements40.0% of 25 movements †31.0% of 29 movements †34.9% of 43 movements †34.9% of 43 movements †63.5% of 52 movements65.7% of 67 movements66.7% of 66 movements77.1% of 48 movements †58.3% of 48 movements †17.4% of 23 movements †46.4% of 56 movements202530.8% of 26 movements †25.0% of 24 movements †21.2% of 33 movements †11.4% of 44 movements †36.7% of 49 movements †52.9% of 51 movements71.0% of 62 movements46.8% of 62 movements49.0% of 51 movements24.1% of 54 movements20.0% of 25 movements †15.6% of 45 movements †202615.0% of 20 movements †11.5% of 26 movements †14.7% of 34 movements †15.6% of 45 movements †24.5% of 49 movements †52.1% of 48 movements †no datano datano datano datano datano data
Month-by-month table: median, observed range and sample
MonthMedianObserved rangeSample
Jan28.4%15.0–32.0%4 months, 94 flights
Feb21.7%11.5–41.4%7 months, 179 flights
Mar27.8%10.0–75.0%7 months, 226 flights
Apr34.9%11.4–83.9%7 months, 307 flights
May49.1%24.5–77.3%7 months, 330 flights
Jun63.5%52.1–91.1%7 months, 350 flights
Jul71.5%65.7–86.1%6 months, 387 flights
Aug67.5%46.8–81.8%6 months, 393 flights
Sep61.9%38.9–90.7%6 months, 304 flights
Oct49.4%24.1–61.4%6 months, 287 flights
Nov18.7%12.0–34.8%4 months, 96 flights
Dec48.8%15.6–62.8%6 months, 256 flights
Definitions, denominators and limits

The matrix shows the last eight calendar years, including an incomplete final year; the start of the archive is kept in the history above. Seasonal summaries use the whole available archive, excluding the pandemic regime 2020–2021; this is an observed range, not a forecast. Zero events, missing data and suppressed cells are marked separately. † marks a small sample, described but not ranked. For ranges the colour follows the upper bound.

Which airline has the better record here?

Only one carrier published enough flights here to report: Easyjet Uk Ltd, 34.2% of 518 movements disrupted.

Figures cover arrivals, July 2025 to June 2026; lower is better in every column. Carriers with fewer than twenty published flights are suppressed rather than shown as zero. The page makes no ranking: the operations behind these shares are not matched for aircraft, time of day or season.

Observed disruption share by optionEasyjet Uk34.2% of 518 flights
Airline comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
AirlineOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Alba Starsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
British Airwayssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Corsairsuppressed: 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 Uk51834.2% of 518 movements1.4% of 518 movements1.5% of 518 movementsdescriptive comparison
Jet2.Comsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Ryanairsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Smartwingssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Tui Airwayssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Voloteasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Vueling Airlinessuppressed: 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, LHR had the lowest disruption share at 26.2% of 1,125 movements and BRS the highest at 52.9% of 104 movements. This route sits at 34.2% of 521 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 optionBrs ↔ Marseille52.9% of 104 flightsEdi ↔ Marseille43.1% of 116 flightsLhr ↔ Marseille26.2% of 1,125 flightsMan ↔ Marseille38.8% of 103 flightsStn ↔ Marseille37.1% of 703 flights
Airport comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
Other UK airport to the same cityOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Bhd ↔ Marseillesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Bhx ↔ Marseillesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Boh ↔ Marseillesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Brs ↔ Marseille10452.9% of 104 movements1.0% of 104 movementsno events in 104 movementsdescriptive comparison
Cwl ↔ Marseillesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Doncaster-Sheffield ↔ Marseillesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Durham-Tees-Valley ↔ Marseillesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Edi ↔ Marseille11643.1% of 116 movements0.9% of 116 movementsno events in 116 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ema ↔ Marseillesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Ext ↔ Marseillesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Gla ↔ Marseillesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Lhr ↔ Marseille1,12526.2% of 1,125 movements1.2% of 1,125 movements1.0% of 1,125 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lpl ↔ Marseillesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Ltn ↔ Marseillesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Man ↔ Marseille10338.8% of 103 movementsno events in 103 movements1.0% of 103 movementsdescriptive comparison
Mme ↔ Marseillesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Ncl ↔ Marseillesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Sen ↔ Marseillesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Stn ↔ Marseille70337.1% of 703 movements0.4% of 703 movements1.1% of 703 movementsdescriptive comparison

Does the direction you are flying change anything?

Yes: arrivals into LGW ran 34.2% of 521 movements disrupted, departures 27.6% of 522 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 LGW34.2% of 521 movements1.3% of 521 movements1.5% of 521 movements
Departures from LGW27.6% of 522 movements1.7% of 522 movements1.3% of 522 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 202653 flights out of 3,51353 × £220 = £11,660
ArrivalsLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 202642 flights out of 2,34542 × £220 = £9,240
DeparturesWhole archive · Jan 2018–Jun 202631 flights out of 3,50131 × £220 = £6,820
DeparturesLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 202626 flights out of 2,34426 × £220 = £5,720
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 / countryMARSEILLE / FRANCE
Final point codesMRS / LFML
Great-circle distance949 km
Maximum statutory amount for the band£220
Average operated arrivals per day1.41
Presence in the latest twelve-month windowoperations present in every month of the latest twelve-month window
First and last active monthJan 2018–Jun 2026
Months with operations in the archive94

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

What this data cannot tell you

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

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

Data-quality counters for this route

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

Unmatched records: 0; all recorded operations: 521; excluded by quarantine: 0.

Quick answers

How often is this route disrupted?

34.2% of 521 movements over July 2025 to June 2026. Arrivals into the UK airport; all published carriers.

How many flights are cancelled at short notice?

1.3% of 521 movements in the same window.

How many delays crossed three hours?

1.5% of 521 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?

949 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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