UK FLIGHT DELAY INDEX

derived from CAA punctuality statistics for UK reporting airports

How often are these flights late or cancelled?

LGW ↔ MUNICH

In the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026, 30.9% of 512 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, 69.1% of 512 movements arrived on time by the industry's fifteen-minute standard. Severe delays were rarer: about one arrival in every 512 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, 30.9% of 512 movements were disrupted and 0.4% of 512 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
30.9% of 512 movements0.4% of 512 movements28.9–53.1 min; N of delayed flights=156–269512
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: 0.4% of 512 movements. “One in N” means how many arrivals you would typically see between events at that level.

Delay threshold ladder; count and share of known operations15 min30.5%30 min18.8%60 min7.8%120 min1.6%180 min0.2%360 min0.0%
Delay ladder table: share, movements and one-in-N
DelayShare and nMovementsOne delay in every N operations
>15 min30.5% of 512 movements1563.3
>30 min18.8% of 512 movements965.3
>60 min7.8% of 512 movements4012.8
>120 min1.6% of 512 movements864.0
>180 min0.2% of 512 movements1512.0
>360 minno events in 512 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 early6412.5%15–1 early17734.6%0–15 late11322.1%16–306011.7%31–605610.9%61…120326.2%121…18071.4%181…36010.2%>36000.0%D=512
Definitions, denominators and limits

Ratio of the long tail to sixteen-to-sixty-minute delays: 0.0086; 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: Mar 2025, 8.2% of 61 movements. Worst month: May 2022, 71.4% of 56 movements.

The line traces every month in the archive; lower is better. Gaps are months with no published data, never zeros. The 2020 and 2021 readings reflect the pandemic, not normal service.

Monthly disruption share; gaps mean no published dataJan 2018: 18.8%; sample: 642018Feb 2018: 14.9%; sample: 67Mar 2018: 32.1%; sample: 81Apr 2018: 20.9%; sample: 86May 2018: 43.3%; sample: 90Jun 2018: 56.4%; sample: 78Jul 2018: 45.0%; sample: 60Aug 2018: 62.1%; sample: 58Sep 2018: 50.6%; sample: 77Oct 2018: 47.7%; sample: 86Nov 2018: 11.8%; sample: 68Dec 2018: 42.7%; sample: 75Jan 2019: 38.1%; sample: 632019Feb 2019: 38.2%; sample: 68Mar 2019: 33.3%; sample: 81Apr 2019: 17.4%; sample: 86May 2019: 30.3%; sample: 89Jun 2019: 44.9%; sample: 78Jul 2019: 69.0%; sample: 58Aug 2019: 64.9%; sample: 57Sep 2019: 60.7%; sample: 84Oct 2019: 46.0%; sample: 87Nov 2019: 12.1%; sample: 66Dec 2019: 49.4%; sample: 79Jan 2020: 30.9%; sample: 552020Feb 2020: 51.6%; sample: 64Mar 2020: 41.0%; sample: 61Apr 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: no data×Jun 2021: no data×Jul 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Aug 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Sep 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Oct 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Nov 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Dec 2021: 26.5%; sample: 34Jan 2022: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×2022Feb 2022: 19.4%; sample: 31Mar 2022: 15.2%; sample: 46Apr 2022: 35.7%; sample: 42May 2022: 71.4%; sample: 56Jun 2022: 80.0%; sample: 35Jul 2022: 80.6%; sample: 36Aug 2022: 87.5%; sample: 24Sep 2022: 67.3%; sample: 52Oct 2022: 33.3%; sample: 57Nov 2022: 11.4%; sample: 44Dec 2022: 44.1%; sample: 59Jan 2023: 12.8%; sample: 472023Feb 2023: 22.4%; sample: 58Mar 2023: 38.1%; sample: 63Apr 2023: 33.9%; sample: 56May 2023: 51.7%; sample: 58Jun 2023: 75.0%; sample: 32Jul 2023: 96.3%; sample: 27Aug 2023: 85.2%; sample: 27Sep 2023: 69.8%; sample: 53Oct 2023: 57.7%; sample: 52Nov 2023: 18.8%; sample: 32Dec 2023: 67.1%; sample: 73Jan 2024: 19.2%; sample: 262024Feb 2024: 33.3%; sample: 42Mar 2024: 18.8%; sample: 48Apr 2024: 36.8%; sample: 57May 2024: 35.6%; sample: 59Jun 2024: 64.4%; sample: 45Jul 2024: 82.6%; sample: 23Aug 2024: 57.1%; sample: 21Sep 2024: 61.2%; sample: 49Oct 2024: 48.9%; sample: 45Nov 2024: 21.4%; sample: 28Dec 2024: 42.3%; sample: 71Jan 2025: 42.9%; sample: 282025Feb 2025: 26.2%; sample: 42Mar 2025: 8.2%; sample: 61Apr 2025: 10.5%; sample: 38May 2025: 22.0%; sample: 41Jun 2025: 40.5%; sample: 37Jul 2025: 44.4%; sample: 27Aug 2025: 38.5%; sample: 26Sep 2025: 50.0%; sample: 48Oct 2025: 26.1%; sample: 46Nov 2025: 15.4%; sample: 26Dec 2025: 29.7%; sample: 74Jan 2026: 54.2%; sample: 242026Feb 2026: 23.3%; sample: 43Mar 2026: 23.0%; sample: 61Apr 2026: 8.5%; sample: 47May 2026: 26.5%; sample: 49Jun 2026: 48.8%; sample: 41Pandemic 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 201818.8% of 64 movements
Feb 201814.9% of 67 movements
Mar 201832.1% of 81 movements
Apr 201820.9% of 86 movements
May 201843.3% of 90 movements
Jun 201856.4% of 78 movements
Jul 201845.0% of 60 movements
Aug 201862.1% of 58 movements
Sep 201850.6% of 77 movements
Oct 201847.7% of 86 movements
Nov 201811.8% of 68 movements
Dec 201842.7% of 75 movements
Jan 201938.1% of 63 movements
Feb 201938.2% of 68 movements
Mar 201933.3% of 81 movements
Apr 201917.4% of 86 movements
May 201930.3% of 89 movements
Jun 201944.9% of 78 movements
Jul 201969.0% of 58 movements
Aug 201964.9% of 57 movements
Sep 201960.7% of 84 movements
Oct 201946.0% of 87 movements
Nov 201912.1% of 66 movements
Dec 201949.4% of 79 movements
Jan 202030.9% of 55 movements
Feb 202051.6% of 64 movements
Mar 202041.0% of 61 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 2021no data
Jun 2021no data
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 202126.5% of 34 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Feb 202219.4% of 31 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202215.2% of 46 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 202235.7% of 42 movements — small sample, not ranked
May 202271.4% of 56 movements
Jun 202280.0% of 35 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jul 202280.6% of 36 movements — small sample, not ranked
Aug 202287.5% of 24 movements — small sample, not ranked
Sep 202267.3% of 52 movements
Oct 202233.3% of 57 movements
Nov 202211.4% of 44 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202244.1% of 59 movements
Jan 202312.8% of 47 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202322.4% of 58 movements
Mar 202338.1% of 63 movements
Apr 202333.9% of 56 movements
May 202351.7% of 58 movements
Jun 202375.0% of 32 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jul 202396.3% of 27 movements — small sample, not ranked
Aug 202385.2% of 27 movements — small sample, not ranked
Sep 202369.8% of 53 movements
Oct 202357.7% of 52 movements
Nov 202318.8% of 32 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202367.1% of 73 movements
Jan 202419.2% of 26 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202433.3% of 42 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202418.8% of 48 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 202436.8% of 57 movements
May 202435.6% of 59 movements
Jun 202464.4% of 45 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jul 202482.6% of 23 movements — small sample, not ranked
Aug 202457.1% of 21 movements — small sample, not ranked
Sep 202461.2% of 49 movements — small sample, not ranked
Oct 202448.9% of 45 movements — small sample, not ranked
Nov 202421.4% of 28 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202442.3% of 71 movements
Jan 202542.9% of 28 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202526.2% of 42 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 20258.2% of 61 movements
Apr 202510.5% of 38 movements — small sample, not ranked
May 202522.0% of 41 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jun 202540.5% of 37 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jul 202544.4% of 27 movements — small sample, not ranked
Aug 202538.5% of 26 movements — small sample, not ranked
Sep 202550.0% of 48 movements — small sample, not ranked
Oct 202526.1% of 46 movements — small sample, not ranked
Nov 202515.4% of 26 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202529.7% of 74 movements
Jan 202654.2% of 24 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202623.3% of 43 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202623.0% of 61 movements
Apr 20268.5% of 47 movements — small sample, not ranked
May 202626.5% of 49 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jun 202648.8% of 41 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 2022Arrivals80.6% of 36 movements — small sample, not rankedno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022Departures58.3% of 36 movements — small sample, not rankedno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Arrivals85.2% of 27 movements — small sample, not ranked47.8% across 577 flightsreturned after 3 months
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Departures63.0% of 27 movements — small sample, not ranked40.2% across 576 flightsreturned after 2 months
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Arrivals8.2% of 61 movements44.9% across 516 flightsreturned the next month
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Departures6.8% of 59 movements29.5% across 514 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, 74.8% of arrivals were disrupted, measured across 6 Julys in the archive. November has been the calmest, at 13.8% across 6 Novembers.

Even July has ranged from 44.4% to 96.3% 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 nJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec201938.1% of 63 movements38.2% of 68 movements33.3% of 81 movements17.4% of 86 movements30.3% of 89 movements44.9% of 78 movements69.0% of 58 movements64.9% of 57 movements60.7% of 84 movements46.0% of 87 movements12.1% of 66 movements49.4% of 79 movements202030.9% of 55 movements51.6% of 64 movements41.0% of 61 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 movementsno datano datasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements26.5% of 34 movements †2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movements19.4% of 31 movements †15.2% of 46 movements †35.7% of 42 movements †71.4% of 56 movements80.0% of 35 movements †80.6% of 36 movements †87.5% of 24 movements †67.3% of 52 movements33.3% of 57 movements11.4% of 44 movements †44.1% of 59 movements202312.8% of 47 movements †22.4% of 58 movements38.1% of 63 movements33.9% of 56 movements51.7% of 58 movements75.0% of 32 movements †96.3% of 27 movements †85.2% of 27 movements †69.8% of 53 movements57.7% of 52 movements18.8% of 32 movements †67.1% of 73 movements202419.2% of 26 movements †33.3% of 42 movements †18.8% of 48 movements †36.8% of 57 movements35.6% of 59 movements64.4% of 45 movements †82.6% of 23 movements †57.1% of 21 movements †61.2% of 49 movements †48.9% of 45 movements †21.4% of 28 movements †42.3% of 71 movements202542.9% of 28 movements †26.2% of 42 movements †8.2% of 61 movements10.5% of 38 movements †22.0% of 41 movements †40.5% of 37 movements †44.4% of 27 movements †38.5% of 26 movements †50.0% of 48 movements †26.1% of 46 movements †15.4% of 26 movements †29.7% of 74 movements202654.2% of 24 movements †23.3% of 43 movements †23.0% of 61 movements8.5% of 47 movements †26.5% of 49 movements †48.8% of 41 movements †no datano datano datano datano datano data
Month-by-month table: median, observed range and sample
MonthMedianObserved rangeSample
Jan28.7%12.8–54.2%6 months, 252 flights
Feb23.3%14.9–38.2%7 months, 351 flights
Mar23.0%8.2–38.1%7 months, 441 flights
Apr20.9%8.5–36.8%7 months, 412 flights
May35.6%22.0–71.4%7 months, 442 flights
Jun56.4%40.5–80.0%7 months, 346 flights
Jul74.8%44.4–96.3%6 months, 231 flights
Aug63.5%38.5–87.5%6 months, 213 flights
Sep61.0%50.0–69.8%6 months, 363 flights
Oct46.8%26.1–57.7%6 months, 373 flights
Nov13.8%11.4–21.4%6 months, 264 flights
Dec43.4%29.7–67.1%6 months, 431 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, 30.6% of 510 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 Uk30.6% of 510 flights
Airline comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
AirlineOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Ascend Airwayssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Ba Euroflyer British Airwayssuppressed: 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
Easyjet Airlinesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Easyjet Uk51030.6% of 510 movements0.4% of 510 movements0.2% of 510 movementsdescriptive comparison
Germania Fluggesellschaftsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Jet2.Comsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Jota Aviationsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Lufthansasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Thomas Cook 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 Airwayssuppressed: 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 23.4% of 4,772 movements and JER the highest at 80.0% of 25 movements — small sample, not ranked. This route sits at 30.9% of 512 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 optionBhx ↔ Munich29.9% of 472 flightsBrs ↔ Munich35.5% of 107 flightsEdi ↔ Munich37.8% of 415 flightsJer ↔ Munich †80.0% of 25 flightsLhr ↔ Munich23.4% of 4,772 flightsMan ↔ Munich36.0% of 1,107 flightsStn ↔ Munich †31.8% of 22 flights
Airport comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
Other UK airport to the same cityOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Bfs ↔ Munichsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Bhd ↔ Munichsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Bhx ↔ Munich47229.9% of 472 movements3.2% of 472 movements0.2% of 472 movementsdescriptive comparison
Boh ↔ Munichsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Brs ↔ Munich10735.5% of 107 movements0.9% of 107 movementsno events in 107 movementsdescriptive comparison
Cwl ↔ Munichsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Edi ↔ Munich41537.8% of 415 movements1.2% of 415 movements0.2% of 415 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ema ↔ Munichsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Ext ↔ Munichsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Gla ↔ Munichsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Jer ↔ Munich2580.0% of 25 movements — small sample, not rankedno events in 25 movements — small sample, not rankedno events in 25 movements — small sample, not rankedsmall sample; not ranked
Lba ↔ Munichsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Lcy ↔ Munichsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Lhr ↔ Munich4,77223.4% of 4,772 movements1.8% of 4,772 movements0.2% of 4,772 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lpl ↔ Munichsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Ltn ↔ Munichsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Man ↔ Munich1,10736.0% of 1,107 movements1.9% of 1,107 movements0.5% of 1,107 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ncl ↔ Munichsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Sen ↔ Munichsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Sou ↔ Munichsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Stn ↔ Munich2231.8% of 22 movements — small sample, not rankedno events in 22 movements — small sample, not rankedno events in 22 movements — small sample, not rankedsmall sample; not ranked

Does the direction you are flying change anything?

Yes: arrivals into LGW ran 30.9% of 512 movements disrupted, departures 21.2% of 509 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 LGW30.9% of 512 movements0.4% of 512 movements0.2% of 512 movements
Departures from LGW21.2% of 509 movementsno events in 509 movementsno events in 509 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 202622 flights out of 4,43222 × £220 = £4,840
ArrivalsLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 202614 flights out of 2,46614 × £220 = £3,080
DeparturesWhole archive · Jan 2018–Jun 20266 flights out of 4,3996 × £220 = £1,320
DeparturesLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 20264 flights out of 2,4454 × £220 = £880
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 / countryMUNICH / GERMANY
Final point codesMUC / EDDM
Great-circle distance913 km
Maximum statutory amount for the band£220
Average operated arrivals per day1.40
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: 0; all recorded operations: 512; excluded by quarantine: 0.

Quick answers

How often is this route disrupted?

30.9% of 512 movements over July 2025 to June 2026. Arrivals into the UK airport; all published carriers.

How many flights are cancelled at short notice?

0.4% of 512 movements in the same window.

How many delays crossed three hours?

0.2% of 512 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?

913 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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