UK FLIGHT DELAY INDEX

derived from CAA punctuality statistics for UK reporting airports

How often are these flights late or cancelled?

LGW ↔ STOCKHOLM ARLANDA

In the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026, 15.0% of 921 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, 85.0% of 921 movements arrived on time by the industry's fifteen-minute standard. Severe delays were rarer: about one arrival in every 460 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, 15.0% of 921 movements were disrupted and 0.5% of 921 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
15.0% of 921 movements0.5% of 921 movements16.9–53.2 min; N of delayed flights=133–364921
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: 0.5% of 921 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 min14.4%30 min6.9%60 min1.7%120 min0.5%180 min0.2%360 min0.0%
Delay ladder table: share, movements and one-in-N
DelayShare and nMovementsOne delay in every N operations
>15 min14.4% of 921 movements1336.9
>30 min6.9% of 921 movements6414.4
>60 min1.7% of 921 movements1657.6
>120 min0.5% of 921 movements5184.2
>180 min0.2% of 921 movements2460.5
>360 minno events in 921 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 early19821.5%15–1 early35438.4%0–15 late23125.1%16–30697.5%31–60485.2%61…120111.2%121…18030.3%181…36020.2%>36000.0%D=921
Definitions, denominators and limits

Ratio of the long tail to sixteen-to-sixty-minute delays: 0.0171; 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: Apr 2026, 1.3% of 75 movements. Worst month: Aug 2019, 54.5% of 110 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: 20.4%; sample: 1372018Feb 2018: 33.9%; sample: 124Mar 2018: 33.1%; sample: 136Apr 2018: 21.1%; sample: 133May 2018: 20.9%; sample: 139Jun 2018: 36.8%; sample: 133Jul 2018: 27.5%; sample: 138Aug 2018: 42.0%; sample: 138Sep 2018: 36.2%; sample: 130Oct 2018: 25.7%; sample: 140Nov 2018: 22.4%; sample: 134Dec 2018: 36.2%; sample: 127Jan 2019: 10.9%; sample: 1372019Feb 2019: 41.1%; sample: 124Mar 2019: 24.8%; sample: 133Apr 2019: 15.7%; sample: 108May 2019: 27.4%; sample: 113Jun 2019: 54.3%; sample: 105Jul 2019: 47.7%; sample: 111Aug 2019: 54.5%; sample: 110Sep 2019: 36.4%; sample: 107Oct 2019: 28.6%; sample: 112Nov 2019: 14.2%; sample: 106Dec 2019: 20.4%; sample: 103Jan 2020: 14.4%; sample: 1112020Feb 2020: 28.8%; sample: 104Mar 2020: 7.1%; sample: 70Apr 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: 0.0%; sample: 35Oct 2020: 12.0%; sample: 25Nov 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: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Nov 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Dec 2021: 28.9%; sample: 38Jan 2022: 13.8%; sample: 292022Feb 2022: 8.0%; sample: 25Mar 2022: 12.0%; sample: 50Apr 2022: 7.4%; sample: 94May 2022: 10.7%; sample: 112Jun 2022: 17.6%; sample: 108Jul 2022: 17.4%; sample: 109Aug 2022: 15.2%; sample: 112Sep 2022: 18.5%; sample: 108Oct 2022: 13.8%; sample: 109Nov 2022: 13.0%; sample: 108Dec 2022: 36.5%; sample: 104Jan 2023: 18.2%; sample: 882023Feb 2023: 10.9%; sample: 92Mar 2023: 17.0%; sample: 112Apr 2023: 5.2%; sample: 97May 2023: 8.2%; sample: 98Jun 2023: 25.5%; sample: 110Jul 2023: 29.4%; sample: 109Aug 2023: 25.0%; sample: 108Sep 2023: 43.1%; sample: 102Oct 2023: 12.8%; sample: 109Nov 2023: 15.8%; sample: 95Dec 2023: 51.1%; sample: 90Jan 2024: 23.3%; sample: 732024Feb 2024: 29.3%; sample: 82Mar 2024: 20.8%; sample: 96Apr 2024: 7.7%; sample: 91May 2024: 6.4%; sample: 94Jun 2024: 14.5%; sample: 76Jul 2024: 36.5%; sample: 85Aug 2024: 21.8%; sample: 87Sep 2024: 25.3%; sample: 91Oct 2024: 16.3%; sample: 92Nov 2024: 18.8%; sample: 80Dec 2024: 37.8%; sample: 82Jan 2025: 29.0%; sample: 692025Feb 2025: 22.1%; sample: 68Mar 2025: 15.9%; sample: 82Apr 2025: 2.7%; sample: 74May 2025: 2.4%; sample: 84Jun 2025: 9.8%; sample: 82Jul 2025: 7.1%; sample: 85Aug 2025: 9.8%; sample: 82Sep 2025: 22.0%; sample: 82Oct 2025: 7.2%; sample: 83Nov 2025: 19.2%; sample: 73Dec 2025: 17.9%; sample: 84Jan 2026: 31.6%; sample: 572026Feb 2026: 19.0%; sample: 58Mar 2026: 10.4%; sample: 77Apr 2026: 1.3%; sample: 75May 2026: 12.0%; sample: 83Jun 2026: 28.0%; sample: 82Pandemic 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 201820.4% of 137 movements
Feb 201833.9% of 124 movements
Mar 201833.1% of 136 movements
Apr 201821.1% of 133 movements
May 201820.9% of 139 movements
Jun 201836.8% of 133 movements
Jul 201827.5% of 138 movements
Aug 201842.0% of 138 movements
Sep 201836.2% of 130 movements
Oct 201825.7% of 140 movements
Nov 201822.4% of 134 movements
Dec 201836.2% of 127 movements
Jan 201910.9% of 137 movements
Feb 201941.1% of 124 movements
Mar 201924.8% of 133 movements
Apr 201915.7% of 108 movements
May 201927.4% of 113 movements
Jun 201954.3% of 105 movements
Jul 201947.7% of 111 movements
Aug 201954.5% of 110 movements
Sep 201936.4% of 107 movements
Oct 201928.6% of 112 movements
Nov 201914.2% of 106 movements
Dec 201920.4% of 103 movements
Jan 202014.4% of 111 movements
Feb 202028.8% of 104 movements
Mar 20207.1% of 70 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 2020no events in 35 movements — small sample, not ranked
Oct 202012.0% of 25 movements — small sample, not ranked
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 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Nov 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Dec 202128.9% of 38 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 202213.8% of 29 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 20228.0% of 25 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202212.0% of 50 movements
Apr 20227.4% of 94 movements
May 202210.7% of 112 movements
Jun 202217.6% of 108 movements
Jul 202217.4% of 109 movements
Aug 202215.2% of 112 movements
Sep 202218.5% of 108 movements
Oct 202213.8% of 109 movements
Nov 202213.0% of 108 movements
Dec 202236.5% of 104 movements
Jan 202318.2% of 88 movements
Feb 202310.9% of 92 movements
Mar 202317.0% of 112 movements
Apr 20235.2% of 97 movements
May 20238.2% of 98 movements
Jun 202325.5% of 110 movements
Jul 202329.4% of 109 movements
Aug 202325.0% of 108 movements
Sep 202343.1% of 102 movements
Oct 202312.8% of 109 movements
Nov 202315.8% of 95 movements
Dec 202351.1% of 90 movements
Jan 202423.3% of 73 movements
Feb 202429.3% of 82 movements
Mar 202420.8% of 96 movements
Apr 20247.7% of 91 movements
May 20246.4% of 94 movements
Jun 202414.5% of 76 movements
Jul 202436.5% of 85 movements
Aug 202421.8% of 87 movements
Sep 202425.3% of 91 movements
Oct 202416.3% of 92 movements
Nov 202418.8% of 80 movements
Dec 202437.8% of 82 movements
Jan 202529.0% of 69 movements
Feb 202522.1% of 68 movements
Mar 202515.9% of 82 movements
Apr 20252.7% of 74 movements
May 20252.4% of 84 movements
Jun 20259.8% of 82 movements
Jul 20257.1% of 85 movements
Aug 20259.8% of 82 movements
Sep 202522.0% of 82 movements
Oct 20257.2% of 83 movements
Nov 202519.2% of 73 movements
Dec 202517.9% of 84 movements
Jan 202631.6% of 57 movements
Feb 202619.0% of 58 movements
Mar 202610.4% of 77 movements
Apr 20261.3% of 75 movements
May 202612.0% of 83 movements
Jun 202628.0% of 82 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 2022Arrivals17.4% of 109 movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022Departures27.5% of 109 movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Arrivals25.0% of 108 movements17.6% across 1,247 flightsreturned after 2 months
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Departures44.4% of 108 movements24.8% across 1,245 flightsreturned after 2 months
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Arrivals15.9% of 82 movements21.4% across 1,011 flightsreturned the next month
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Departures19.5% of 82 movements32.3% across 1,008 flightsreturned the next month
Definitions, denominators and limits

The baseline is the unweighted mean share over the twelve preceding calendar months. The return window is the following eight months, up to the end of the archive. Return means the first observed value at or below the baseline; it is not the duration of the disruption itself. If the event month is already below the baseline, counting still starts the month after. Gaps and suppressed cells are not treated as zeros or as recovery.

Which time of year has historically been hardest?

December has historically been the hardest month on this route: in a typical December, 36.4% of arrivals were disrupted, measured across 6 Decembers in the archive. April has been the calmest, at 7.4% across 7 Aprils.

Even December has ranged from 17.9% to 51.1% 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 nJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec201910.9% of 137 movements41.1% of 124 movements24.8% of 133 movements15.7% of 108 movements27.4% of 113 movements54.3% of 105 movements47.7% of 111 movements54.5% of 110 movements36.4% of 107 movements28.6% of 112 movements14.2% of 106 movements20.4% of 103 movements202014.4% of 111 movements28.8% of 104 movements7.1% of 70 movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementsno events in 35 movements †12.0% of 25 movements †suppressed: 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 movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements28.9% of 38 movements †202213.8% of 29 movements †8.0% of 25 movements †12.0% of 50 movements7.4% of 94 movements10.7% of 112 movements17.6% of 108 movements17.4% of 109 movements15.2% of 112 movements18.5% of 108 movements13.8% of 109 movements13.0% of 108 movements36.5% of 104 movements202318.2% of 88 movements10.9% of 92 movements17.0% of 112 movements5.2% of 97 movements8.2% of 98 movements25.5% of 110 movements29.4% of 109 movements25.0% of 108 movements43.1% of 102 movements12.8% of 109 movements15.8% of 95 movements51.1% of 90 movements202423.3% of 73 movements29.3% of 82 movements20.8% of 96 movements7.7% of 91 movements6.4% of 94 movements14.5% of 76 movements36.5% of 85 movements21.8% of 87 movements25.3% of 91 movements16.3% of 92 movements18.8% of 80 movements37.8% of 82 movements202529.0% of 69 movements22.1% of 68 movements15.9% of 82 movements2.7% of 74 movements2.4% of 84 movements9.8% of 82 movements7.1% of 85 movements9.8% of 82 movements22.0% of 82 movements7.2% of 83 movements19.2% of 73 movements17.9% of 84 movements202631.6% of 57 movements19.0% of 58 movements10.4% of 77 movements1.3% of 75 movements12.0% of 83 movements28.0% of 82 movementsno datano datano datano datano datano data
Month-by-month table: median, observed range and sample
MonthMedianObserved rangeSample
Jan20.4%10.9–31.6%7 months, 590 flights
Feb22.1%8.0–41.1%7 months, 573 flights
Mar17.0%10.4–33.1%7 months, 686 flights
Apr7.4%1.3–21.1%7 months, 672 flights
May10.7%2.4–27.4%7 months, 723 flights
Jun25.5%9.8–54.3%7 months, 696 flights
Jul28.4%7.1–47.7%6 months, 637 flights
Aug23.4%9.8–54.5%6 months, 637 flights
Sep30.7%18.5–43.1%6 months, 620 flights
Oct15.0%7.2–28.6%6 months, 645 flights
Nov17.3%13.0–22.4%6 months, 596 flights
Dec36.4%17.9–51.1%6 months, 590 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: Norwegian Air Sweden Ab, 15.0% of 920 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 optionNorwegian Air Sweden Ab15.0% of 920 flights
Airline comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
AirlineOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
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 Europesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Easyjet Uksuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Netjets Transportes Aereossuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Norwegian Air Internationalsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Norwegian Air Shuttlesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Norwegian Air Shuttle Aoc Assuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Norwegian Air Sweden Ab92015.0% of 920 movements0.5% of 920 movements0.2% of 920 movementsdescriptive comparison
Norwegian Air Uksuppressed: 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
Sundairsuppressed: 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
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 Airwayssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Tui Fly Nordicsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Vistajet Maltasuppressed: 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, EDI had the lowest disruption share at 15.2% of 355 movements and BHX the highest at 32.5% of 83 movements. This route sits at 15.0% of 921 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 ↔ Stockholm-Arlanda32.5% of 83 flightsEdi ↔ Stockholm-Arlanda15.2% of 355 flightsLhr ↔ Stockholm-Arlanda16.8% of 2,909 flightsMan ↔ Stockholm-Arlanda20.7% of 420 flightsStn ↔ Stockholm-Arlanda23.9% of 514 flights
Airport comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
Other UK airport to the same cityOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Abz ↔ Stockholm-Arlandasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Bfs ↔ Stockholm-Arlandasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Bhx ↔ Stockholm-Arlanda8332.5% of 83 movementsno events in 83 movementsno events in 83 movementsdescriptive comparison
Boh ↔ Stockholm-Arlandasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Brs ↔ Stockholm-Arlandasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Edi ↔ Stockholm-Arlanda35515.2% of 355 movements1.4% of 355 movementsno events in 355 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ema ↔ Stockholm-Arlandasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Gla ↔ Stockholm-Arlandasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Iom ↔ Stockholm-Arlandasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Lba ↔ Stockholm-Arlandasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Lhr ↔ Stockholm-Arlanda2,90916.8% of 2,909 movements0.8% of 2,909 movements0.1% of 2,909 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lpl ↔ Stockholm-Arlandasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Ltn ↔ Stockholm-Arlandasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Man ↔ Stockholm-Arlanda42020.7% of 420 movements1.9% of 420 movementsno events in 420 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ncl ↔ Stockholm-Arlandasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Stn ↔ Stockholm-Arlanda51423.9% of 514 movements0.2% of 514 movements1.0% of 514 movementsdescriptive comparison

Does the direction you are flying change anything?

Yes: arrivals into LGW ran 15.0% of 921 movements disrupted, departures 22.2% of 919 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 LGW15.0% of 921 movements0.5% of 921 movements0.2% of 921 movements
Departures from LGW22.2% of 919 movements0.4% of 919 movements0.3% of 919 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 202631 flights out of 8,16631 × £220 = £6,820
ArrivalsLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 20264 flights out of 4,9034 × £220 = £880
DeparturesWhole archive · Jan 2018–Jun 202637 flights out of 8,15837 × £220 = £8,140
DeparturesLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 202614 flights out of 4,89714 × £220 = £3,080
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 / countrySTOCKHOLM (ARLANDA) / SWEDEN
Final point codesARN / ESSA
Great-circle distance1,475 km
Maximum statutory amount for the band£220
Average operated arrivals per day2.51
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: 921; excluded by quarantine: 0.

Quick answers

How often is this route disrupted?

15.0% of 921 movements over July 2025 to June 2026. Arrivals into the UK airport; all published carriers.

How many flights are cancelled at short notice?

0.5% of 921 movements in the same window.

How many delays crossed three hours?

0.2% of 921 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?

1,475 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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