UK FLIGHT DELAY INDEX

derived from CAA punctuality statistics for UK reporting airports

How often are these flights late or cancelled?

LGW ↔ VERONA VILLAFRANCA

In the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026, 30.4% of 861 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, 69.6% of 861 movements arrived on time by the industry's fifteen-minute standard. Severe delays were rarer: about one arrival in every 172 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, 30.4% of 861 movements were disrupted and 0.7% of 861 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
30.4% of 861 movements0.7% of 861 movements32.4–59.8 min; N of delayed flights=256–446861
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: 0.7% of 861 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 min29.7%30 min16.6%60 min7.2%120 min3.0%180 min0.6%360 min0.1%
Delay ladder table: share, movements and one-in-N
DelayShare and nMovementsOne delay in every N operations
>15 min29.7% of 861 movements2563.4
>30 min16.6% of 861 movements1436.0
>60 min7.2% of 861 movements6213.9
>120 min3.0% of 861 movements2633.1
>180 min0.6% of 861 movements5172.2
>360 min0.1% of 861 movements1861.0
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 early16018.6%15–1 early24928.9%0–15 late19022.1%16–3011313.1%31–60819.4%61…120364.2%121…180212.4%181…36040.5%>36010.1%D=861
Definitions, denominators and limits

Ratio of the long tail to sixteen-to-sixty-minute delays: 0.0258; 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 2025, 8.3% of 72 movements. Worst month: May 2022, 77.6% of 67 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: 19.2%; sample: 522018Feb 2018: 10.9%; sample: 55Mar 2018: 17.6%; sample: 68Apr 2018: 20.2%; sample: 89May 2018: 39.2%; sample: 97Jun 2018: 50.9%; sample: 112Jul 2018: 50.8%; sample: 118Aug 2018: 39.2%; sample: 120Sep 2018: 35.2%; sample: 108Oct 2018: 29.1%; sample: 79Nov 2018: 14.6%; sample: 48Dec 2018: 22.0%; sample: 59Jan 2019: 14.0%; sample: 502019Feb 2019: 30.8%; sample: 52Mar 2019: 41.7%; sample: 60Apr 2019: 17.7%; sample: 79May 2019: 21.6%; sample: 102Jun 2019: 34.8%; sample: 115Jul 2019: 57.3%; sample: 124Aug 2019: 48.4%; sample: 124Sep 2019: 54.6%; sample: 108Oct 2019: 33.8%; sample: 80Nov 2019: 2.3%; sample: 44Dec 2019: 27.6%; sample: 58Jan 2020: 14.3%; sample: 492020Feb 2020: 41.2%; sample: 51Mar 2020: 44.8%; sample: 29Apr 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: no data×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: no data×Dec 2021: 9.5%; sample: 21Jan 2022: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×2022Feb 2022: 50.0%; sample: 20Mar 2022: 20.0%; sample: 30Apr 2022: 40.7%; sample: 54May 2022: 77.6%; sample: 67Jun 2022: 68.0%; sample: 75Jul 2022: 56.2%; sample: 73Aug 2022: 46.0%; sample: 87Sep 2022: 65.3%; sample: 75Oct 2022: 43.1%; sample: 58Nov 2022: 5.3%; sample: 38Dec 2022: 45.0%; sample: 60Jan 2023: 27.5%; sample: 512023Feb 2023: 25.0%; sample: 56Mar 2023: 52.9%; sample: 68Apr 2023: 28.8%; sample: 59May 2023: 52.6%; sample: 78Jun 2023: 61.4%; sample: 88Jul 2023: 71.0%; sample: 93Aug 2023: 60.6%; sample: 94Sep 2023: 67.1%; sample: 82Oct 2023: 40.3%; sample: 67Nov 2023: 21.4%; sample: 42Dec 2023: 53.6%; sample: 56Jan 2024: 27.9%; sample: 432024Feb 2024: 32.1%; sample: 53Mar 2024: 39.7%; sample: 58Apr 2024: 25.0%; sample: 68May 2024: 26.9%; sample: 78Jun 2024: 53.6%; sample: 84Jul 2024: 60.7%; sample: 84Aug 2024: 46.4%; sample: 84Sep 2024: 62.8%; sample: 78Oct 2024: 22.7%; sample: 66Nov 2024: 21.2%; sample: 33Dec 2024: 33.9%; sample: 59Jan 2025: 41.0%; sample: 392025Feb 2025: 30.0%; sample: 60Mar 2025: 23.2%; sample: 69Apr 2025: 8.3%; sample: 72May 2025: 23.2%; sample: 82Jun 2025: 45.0%; sample: 80Jul 2025: 52.9%; sample: 85Aug 2025: 36.0%; sample: 89Sep 2025: 45.3%; sample: 75Oct 2025: 22.7%; sample: 66Nov 2025: 18.2%; sample: 33Dec 2025: 20.9%; sample: 67Jan 2026: 32.7%; sample: 492026Feb 2026: 20.6%; sample: 63Mar 2026: 21.2%; sample: 80Apr 2026: 11.5%; sample: 78May 2026: 25.3%; sample: 87Jun 2026: 43.8%; sample: 89Pandemic 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 201819.2% of 52 movements
Feb 201810.9% of 55 movements
Mar 201817.6% of 68 movements
Apr 201820.2% of 89 movements
May 201839.2% of 97 movements
Jun 201850.9% of 112 movements
Jul 201850.8% of 118 movements
Aug 201839.2% of 120 movements
Sep 201835.2% of 108 movements
Oct 201829.1% of 79 movements
Nov 201814.6% of 48 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 201822.0% of 59 movements
Jan 201914.0% of 50 movements
Feb 201930.8% of 52 movements
Mar 201941.7% of 60 movements
Apr 201917.7% of 79 movements
May 201921.6% of 102 movements
Jun 201934.8% of 115 movements
Jul 201957.3% of 124 movements
Aug 201948.4% of 124 movements
Sep 201954.6% of 108 movements
Oct 201933.8% of 80 movements
Nov 20192.3% of 44 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 201927.6% of 58 movements
Jan 202014.3% of 49 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202041.2% of 51 movements
Mar 202044.8% of 29 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 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 2021no data
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 2021no data
Dec 20219.5% of 21 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Feb 202250.0% of 20 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202220.0% of 30 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 202240.7% of 54 movements
May 202277.6% of 67 movements
Jun 202268.0% of 75 movements
Jul 202256.2% of 73 movements
Aug 202246.0% of 87 movements
Sep 202265.3% of 75 movements
Oct 202243.1% of 58 movements
Nov 20225.3% of 38 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202245.0% of 60 movements
Jan 202327.5% of 51 movements
Feb 202325.0% of 56 movements
Mar 202352.9% of 68 movements
Apr 202328.8% of 59 movements
May 202352.6% of 78 movements
Jun 202361.4% of 88 movements
Jul 202371.0% of 93 movements
Aug 202360.6% of 94 movements
Sep 202367.1% of 82 movements
Oct 202340.3% of 67 movements
Nov 202321.4% of 42 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202353.6% of 56 movements
Jan 202427.9% of 43 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202432.1% of 53 movements
Mar 202439.7% of 58 movements
Apr 202425.0% of 68 movements
May 202426.9% of 78 movements
Jun 202453.6% of 84 movements
Jul 202460.7% of 84 movements
Aug 202446.4% of 84 movements
Sep 202462.8% of 78 movements
Oct 202422.7% of 66 movements
Nov 202421.2% of 33 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202433.9% of 59 movements
Jan 202541.0% of 39 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202530.0% of 60 movements
Mar 202523.2% of 69 movements
Apr 20258.3% of 72 movements
May 202523.2% of 82 movements
Jun 202545.0% of 80 movements
Jul 202552.9% of 85 movements
Aug 202536.0% of 89 movements
Sep 202545.3% of 75 movements
Oct 202522.7% of 66 movements
Nov 202518.2% of 33 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202520.9% of 67 movements
Jan 202632.7% of 49 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202620.6% of 63 movements
Mar 202621.2% of 80 movements
Apr 202611.5% of 78 movements
May 202625.3% of 87 movements
Jun 202643.8% of 89 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 2022Arrivals56.2% of 73 movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022Departures46.6% of 73 movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Arrivals60.6% of 94 movements43.6% across 811 flightsreturned after 2 months
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Departures51.6% of 93 movements38.2% across 810 flightsreturned after 2 months
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Arrivals23.2% of 69 movements38.7% across 791 flightsreturned the next month
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Departures23.2% of 69 movements30.9% across 791 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?

September has historically been the hardest month on this route: in a typical September, 58.7% of arrivals were disrupted, measured across 6 Septembers in the archive. November has been the calmest, at 16.4% across 6 Novembers.

Even September has ranged from 35.2% to 67.1% 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 nJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec201914.0% of 50 movements30.8% of 52 movements41.7% of 60 movements17.7% of 79 movements21.6% of 102 movements34.8% of 115 movements57.3% of 124 movements48.4% of 124 movements54.6% of 108 movements33.8% of 80 movements2.3% of 44 movements †27.6% of 58 movements202014.3% of 49 movements †41.2% of 51 movements44.8% of 29 movements †suppressed: 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 movementsno datano datano datasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementsno data9.5% of 21 movements †2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movements50.0% of 20 movements †20.0% of 30 movements †40.7% of 54 movements77.6% of 67 movements68.0% of 75 movements56.2% of 73 movements46.0% of 87 movements65.3% of 75 movements43.1% of 58 movements5.3% of 38 movements †45.0% of 60 movements202327.5% of 51 movements25.0% of 56 movements52.9% of 68 movements28.8% of 59 movements52.6% of 78 movements61.4% of 88 movements71.0% of 93 movements60.6% of 94 movements67.1% of 82 movements40.3% of 67 movements21.4% of 42 movements †53.6% of 56 movements202427.9% of 43 movements †32.1% of 53 movements39.7% of 58 movements25.0% of 68 movements26.9% of 78 movements53.6% of 84 movements60.7% of 84 movements46.4% of 84 movements62.8% of 78 movements22.7% of 66 movements21.2% of 33 movements †33.9% of 59 movements202541.0% of 39 movements †30.0% of 60 movements23.2% of 69 movements8.3% of 72 movements23.2% of 82 movements45.0% of 80 movements52.9% of 85 movements36.0% of 89 movements45.3% of 75 movements22.7% of 66 movements18.2% of 33 movements †20.9% of 67 movements202632.7% of 49 movements †20.6% of 63 movements21.2% of 80 movements11.5% of 78 movements25.3% of 87 movements43.8% of 89 movementsno datano datano datano datano datano data
Month-by-month table: median, observed range and sample
MonthMedianObserved rangeSample
Jan27.7%14.0–41.0%6 months, 284 flights
Feb30.0%10.9–50.0%7 months, 359 flights
Mar23.2%17.6–52.9%7 months, 433 flights
Apr20.2%8.3–40.7%7 months, 499 flights
May26.9%21.6–77.6%7 months, 591 flights
Jun50.9%34.8–68.0%7 months, 643 flights
Jul56.7%50.8–71.0%6 months, 577 flights
Aug46.2%36.0–60.6%6 months, 598 flights
Sep58.7%35.2–67.1%6 months, 526 flights
Oct31.4%22.7–43.1%6 months, 416 flights
Nov16.4%2.3–21.4%6 months, 238 flights
Dec30.7%20.9–53.6%6 months, 359 flights
Definitions, denominators and limits

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

Which airline has the better record here?

On the published record there is no clear winner: Easyjet Uk 26.4% of 383 movements, Ba Euroflyer British Airways 28.8% of 410 movements, Tui Airways 61.1% of 54 movements. Observed shares differ; the mix of operations is not matched, so no causal conclusion follows.

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

Observed disruption share by optionBa Euroflyer British Airways28.8% of 410 flightsEasyjet Uk26.4% of 383 flightsTui Airways61.1% of 54 flights
Airline comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
AirlineOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Air Horizontsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Ba Euroflyer British Airways41028.8% of 410 movementsno events in 410 movements0.5% of 410 movementsdescriptive comparison
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 Uk38326.4% of 383 movements0.5% of 383 movements0.8% of 383 movementsdescriptive comparison
Enter Airsuppressed: 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
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
Skyalpssuppressed: 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 Airways5461.1% of 54 movementsno events in 54 movementsno events in 54 movementsdescriptive comparison
Wizz Air Uksuppressed: 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, LBA had the lowest disruption share at 15.6% of 45 movements — small sample, not ranked and STN the highest at 53.8% of 398 movements. This route sits at 30.4% of 861 movements.

Each figure is arrivals into that UK airport, all carriers combined, over the same twelve months. It is a historical record, not a recommendation about where to fly from, and it says nothing about getting to or from each airport on the ground.

Observed disruption share by optionBfs ↔ Verona-Villafranca †48.1% of 27 flightsBhx ↔ Verona-Villafranca44.6% of 327 flightsBrs ↔ Verona-Villafranca31.8% of 129 flightsEdi ↔ Verona-Villafranca27.0% of 63 flightsEma ↔ Verona-Villafranca †17.4% of 23 flightsGla ↔ Verona-Villafranca39.7% of 73 flightsLba ↔ Verona-Villafranca †15.6% of 45 flightsLtn ↔ Verona-Villafranca †23.1% of 26 flights
Airport comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
Other UK airport to the same cityOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Abz ↔ Verona-Villafrancasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Bfs ↔ Verona-Villafranca2748.1% of 27 movements — small sample, not rankedno events in 27 movements — small sample, not rankedno events in 27 movements — small sample, not rankedsmall sample; not ranked
Bhd ↔ Verona-Villafrancasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Bhx ↔ Verona-Villafranca32744.6% of 327 movementsno events in 327 movementsno events in 327 movementsdescriptive comparison
Boh ↔ Verona-Villafrancasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Brs ↔ Verona-Villafranca12931.8% of 129 movementsno events in 129 movements0.8% of 129 movementsdescriptive comparison
Cwl ↔ Verona-Villafrancasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Durham-Tees-Valley ↔ Verona-Villafrancasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Edi ↔ Verona-Villafranca6327.0% of 63 movementsno events in 63 movementsno events in 63 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ema ↔ Verona-Villafranca2317.4% of 23 movements — small sample, not rankedno events in 23 movements — small sample, not rankedno events in 23 movements — small sample, not rankedsmall sample; not ranked
Ext ↔ Verona-Villafrancasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Gla ↔ Verona-Villafranca7339.7% of 73 movementsno events in 73 movements1.4% of 73 movementsdescriptive comparison
Iom ↔ Verona-Villafrancasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Jer ↔ Verona-Villafrancasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Lba ↔ Verona-Villafranca4515.6% of 45 movements — small sample, not rankedno events in 45 movements — small sample, not ranked2.2% of 45 movements — small sample, not rankedsmall sample; not ranked
Lhr ↔ Verona-Villafrancasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Ltn ↔ Verona-Villafranca2623.1% of 26 movements — small sample, not rankedno events in 26 movements — small sample, not rankedno events in 26 movements — small sample, not rankedsmall sample; not ranked
Man ↔ Verona-Villafranca30250.7% of 302 movements0.3% of 302 movements0.7% of 302 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ncl ↔ Verona-Villafranca6839.7% of 68 movementsno events in 68 movements1.5% of 68 movementsdescriptive comparison
Sen ↔ Verona-Villafrancasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Sou ↔ Verona-Villafrancasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Stn ↔ Verona-Villafranca39853.8% of 398 movements0.3% of 398 movements1.0% of 398 movementsdescriptive comparison

Does the direction you are flying change anything?

Barely: arrivals into LGW ran 30.4% of 861 movements disrupted, departures 28.2% of 857 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 LGW30.4% of 861 movements0.7% of 861 movements0.6% of 861 movements
Departures from LGW28.2% of 857 movements0.4% of 857 movements0.5% of 857 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 202683 flights out of 5,75883 × £220 = £18,260
ArrivalsLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 202658 flights out of 3,62858 × £220 = £12,760
DeparturesWhole archive · Jan 2018–Jun 202633 flights out of 5,75133 × £220 = £7,260
DeparturesLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 202630 flights out of 3,62430 × £220 = £6,600
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 / countryVERONA VILLAFRANCA / ITALY
Final point codesVRN / LIPX
Great-circle distance1,038 km
Maximum statutory amount for the band£220
Average operated arrivals per day2.34
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 archive91

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: 861; excluded by quarantine: 0.

Quick answers

How often is this route disrupted?

30.4% of 861 movements over July 2025 to June 2026. Arrivals into the UK airport; all published carriers.

How many flights are cancelled at short notice?

0.7% of 861 movements in the same window.

How many delays crossed three hours?

0.6% of 861 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?

1,038 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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