UK FLIGHT DELAY INDEX

derived from CAA punctuality statistics for UK reporting airports

How often are these flights late or cancelled?

LPL ↔ MALAGA

In the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026, 21.3% of 1,033 movements arriving into LPL were disrupted — that is, they landed more than fifteen minutes late or were cancelled at short notice.

Put the other way round, 78.7% of 1,033 movements arrived on time by the industry's fifteen-minute standard. Severe delays were rarer: about one arrival in every 1,033 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, 21.3% of 1,033 movements were disrupted and 0.2% of 1,033 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
21.3% of 1,033 movements0.2% of 1,033 movements20.3–53.3 min; N of delayed flights=218–5221,033
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: 0.2% of 1,033 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 min21.1%30 min9.8%60 min3.3%120 min1.2%180 min0.1%360 min0.0%
Delay ladder table: share, movements and one-in-N
DelayShare and nMovementsOne delay in every N operations
>15 min21.1% of 1,033 movements2184.7
>30 min9.8% of 1,033 movements10110.2
>60 min3.3% of 1,033 movements3430.4
>120 min1.2% of 1,033 movements1286.1
>180 min0.1% of 1,033 movements11,033.0
>360 minno events in 1,033 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 early12512.1%15–1 early38437.2%0–15 late30429.4%16–3011711.3%31–60676.5%61…120222.1%121…180111.1%181…36010.1%>36000.0%D=1,033
Definitions, denominators and limits

Ratio of the long tail to sixteen-to-sixty-minute delays: 0.0054; 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: Aug 2020, 2.4% of 84 movements. Worst month: Sep 2024, 45.5% of 99 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: 13.9%; sample: 362018Feb 2018: 7.9%; sample: 38Mar 2018: 15.1%; sample: 53Apr 2018: 10.5%; sample: 76May 2018: 18.8%; sample: 80Jun 2018: 13.6%; sample: 88Jul 2018: 15.1%; sample: 93Aug 2018: 19.4%; sample: 98Sep 2018: 15.7%; sample: 89Oct 2018: 20.2%; sample: 94Nov 2018: 7.7%; sample: 52Dec 2018: 17.6%; sample: 51Jan 2019: 14.0%; sample: 432019Feb 2019: 6.7%; sample: 45Mar 2019: 11.1%; sample: 45Apr 2019: 13.8%; sample: 80May 2019: 19.3%; sample: 88Jun 2019: 14.9%; sample: 87Jul 2019: 13.8%; sample: 94Aug 2019: 21.1%; sample: 95Sep 2019: 13.4%; sample: 82Oct 2019: 11.9%; sample: 84Nov 2019: 13.3%; sample: 45Dec 2019: 25.6%; sample: 43Jan 2020: 15.4%; sample: 392020Feb 2020: 20.0%; sample: 40Mar 2020: 27.6%; sample: 29Apr 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×May 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jun 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jul 2020: 0.0%; sample: 30Aug 2020: 2.4%; sample: 84Sep 2020: 5.6%; sample: 54Oct 2020: 12.1%; sample: 33Nov 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: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jun 2021: 4.2%; sample: 24Jul 2021: 2.1%; sample: 47Aug 2021: 6.8%; sample: 74Sep 2021: 8.1%; sample: 74Oct 2021: 14.1%; sample: 78Nov 2021: 8.0%; sample: 25Dec 2021: 11.5%; sample: 26Jan 2022: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×2022Feb 2022: 13.0%; sample: 23Mar 2022: 3.1%; sample: 32Apr 2022: 20.0%; sample: 60May 2022: 29.0%; sample: 62Jun 2022: 26.1%; sample: 69Jul 2022: 22.5%; sample: 71Aug 2022: 21.4%; sample: 70Sep 2022: 30.4%; sample: 69Oct 2022: 10.0%; sample: 70Nov 2022: 18.9%; sample: 37Dec 2022: 40.5%; sample: 37Jan 2023: 12.9%; sample: 312023Feb 2023: 6.7%; sample: 30Mar 2023: 43.9%; sample: 41Apr 2023: 32.2%; sample: 59May 2023: 29.7%; sample: 64Jun 2023: 30.8%; sample: 78Jul 2023: 36.2%; sample: 80Aug 2023: 23.8%; sample: 80Sep 2023: 19.7%; sample: 76Oct 2023: 18.7%; sample: 75Nov 2023: 45.0%; sample: 40Dec 2023: 37.5%; sample: 48Jan 2024: 15.4%; sample: 392024Feb 2024: 43.6%; sample: 39Mar 2024: 19.6%; sample: 46Apr 2024: 44.6%; sample: 83May 2024: 25.5%; sample: 98Jun 2024: 41.9%; sample: 93Jul 2024: 39.1%; sample: 87Aug 2024: 35.6%; sample: 90Sep 2024: 45.5%; sample: 99Oct 2024: 28.7%; sample: 87Nov 2024: 26.1%; sample: 46Dec 2024: 33.3%; sample: 51Jan 2025: 45.2%; sample: 312025Feb 2025: 17.0%; sample: 47Mar 2025: 14.3%; sample: 77Apr 2025: 16.3%; sample: 86May 2025: 18.6%; sample: 118Jun 2025: 20.9%; sample: 110Jul 2025: 20.7%; sample: 111Aug 2025: 27.0%; sample: 111Sep 2025: 19.3%; sample: 109Oct 2025: 17.1%; sample: 111Nov 2025: 14.8%; sample: 54Dec 2025: 12.1%; sample: 58Jan 2026: 23.5%; sample: 342026Feb 2026: 20.5%; sample: 44Mar 2026: 29.6%; sample: 71Apr 2026: 15.8%; sample: 114May 2026: 26.0%; sample: 100Jun 2026: 25.9%; sample: 116Pandemic 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 201813.9% of 36 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 20187.9% of 38 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 201815.1% of 53 movements
Apr 201810.5% of 76 movements
May 201818.8% of 80 movements
Jun 201813.6% of 88 movements
Jul 201815.1% of 93 movements
Aug 201819.4% of 98 movements
Sep 201815.7% of 89 movements
Oct 201820.2% of 94 movements
Nov 20187.7% of 52 movements
Dec 201817.6% of 51 movements
Jan 201914.0% of 43 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 20196.7% of 45 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 201911.1% of 45 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 201913.8% of 80 movements
May 201919.3% of 88 movements
Jun 201914.9% of 87 movements
Jul 201913.8% of 94 movements
Aug 201921.1% of 95 movements
Sep 201913.4% of 82 movements
Oct 201911.9% of 84 movements
Nov 201913.3% of 45 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 201925.6% of 43 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 202015.4% of 39 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202020.0% of 40 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202027.6% 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 2020no events in 30 movements — small sample, not ranked
Aug 20202.4% of 84 movements
Sep 20205.6% of 54 movements
Oct 202012.1% of 33 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 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
May 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jun 20214.2% of 24 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jul 20212.1% of 47 movements — small sample, not ranked
Aug 20216.8% of 74 movements
Sep 20218.1% of 74 movements
Oct 202114.1% of 78 movements
Nov 20218.0% of 25 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202111.5% of 26 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Feb 202213.0% of 23 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 20223.1% of 32 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 202220.0% of 60 movements
May 202229.0% of 62 movements
Jun 202226.1% of 69 movements
Jul 202222.5% of 71 movements
Aug 202221.4% of 70 movements
Sep 202230.4% of 69 movements
Oct 202210.0% of 70 movements
Nov 202218.9% of 37 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202240.5% of 37 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 202312.9% of 31 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 20236.7% of 30 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202343.9% of 41 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 202332.2% of 59 movements
May 202329.7% of 64 movements
Jun 202330.8% of 78 movements
Jul 202336.2% of 80 movements
Aug 202323.8% of 80 movements
Sep 202319.7% of 76 movements
Oct 202318.7% of 75 movements
Nov 202345.0% of 40 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202337.5% of 48 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 202415.4% of 39 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202443.6% of 39 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202419.6% of 46 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 202444.6% of 83 movements
May 202425.5% of 98 movements
Jun 202441.9% of 93 movements
Jul 202439.1% of 87 movements
Aug 202435.6% of 90 movements
Sep 202445.5% of 99 movements
Oct 202428.7% of 87 movements
Nov 202426.1% of 46 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202433.3% of 51 movements
Jan 202545.2% of 31 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202517.0% of 47 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202514.3% of 77 movements
Apr 202516.3% of 86 movements
May 202518.6% of 118 movements
Jun 202520.9% of 110 movements
Jul 202520.7% of 111 movements
Aug 202527.0% of 111 movements
Sep 202519.3% of 109 movements
Oct 202517.1% of 111 movements
Nov 202514.8% of 54 movements
Dec 202512.1% of 58 movements
Jan 202623.5% of 34 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202620.5% of 44 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202629.6% of 71 movements
Apr 202615.8% of 114 movements
May 202626.0% of 100 movements
Jun 202625.9% of 116 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 2022Arrivals22.5% of 71 movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022Departures21.1% of 71 movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Arrivals23.8% of 80 movements26.1% across 666 flightsreturned the next month
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Departures25.0% of 80 movements15.9% across 664 flightsreturned after 4 months
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Arrivals14.3% of 77 movements33.5% across 858 flightsreturned the next month
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Departures2.6% of 77 movements20.2% across 860 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, 29.5% of arrivals were disrupted, measured across 6 Decembers in the archive. February has been the calmest, at 13.0% across 7 Februarys.

Even December has ranged from 12.1% to 40.5% 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 43 movements †6.7% of 45 movements †11.1% of 45 movements †13.8% of 80 movements19.3% of 88 movements14.9% of 87 movements13.8% of 94 movements21.1% of 95 movements13.4% of 82 movements11.9% of 84 movements13.3% of 45 movements †25.6% of 43 movements †202015.4% of 39 movements †20.0% of 40 movements †27.6% of 29 movements †suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementsno events in 30 movements †2.4% of 84 movements5.6% of 54 movements12.1% of 33 movements †suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements4.2% of 24 movements †2.1% of 47 movements †6.8% of 74 movements8.1% of 74 movements14.1% of 78 movements8.0% of 25 movements †11.5% of 26 movements †2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movements13.0% of 23 movements †3.1% of 32 movements †20.0% of 60 movements29.0% of 62 movements26.1% of 69 movements22.5% of 71 movements21.4% of 70 movements30.4% of 69 movements10.0% of 70 movements18.9% of 37 movements †40.5% of 37 movements †202312.9% of 31 movements †6.7% of 30 movements †43.9% of 41 movements †32.2% of 59 movements29.7% of 64 movements30.8% of 78 movements36.2% of 80 movements23.8% of 80 movements19.7% of 76 movements18.7% of 75 movements45.0% of 40 movements †37.5% of 48 movements †202415.4% of 39 movements †43.6% of 39 movements †19.6% of 46 movements †44.6% of 83 movements25.5% of 98 movements41.9% of 93 movements39.1% of 87 movements35.6% of 90 movements45.5% of 99 movements28.7% of 87 movements26.1% of 46 movements †33.3% of 51 movements202545.2% of 31 movements †17.0% of 47 movements †14.3% of 77 movements16.3% of 86 movements18.6% of 118 movements20.9% of 110 movements20.7% of 111 movements27.0% of 111 movements19.3% of 109 movements17.1% of 111 movements14.8% of 54 movements12.1% of 58 movements202623.5% of 34 movements †20.5% of 44 movements †29.6% of 71 movements15.8% of 114 movements26.0% of 100 movements25.9% of 116 movementsno datano datano datano datano datano data
Month-by-month table: median, observed range and sample
MonthMedianObserved rangeSample
Jan14.7%12.9–45.2%6 months, 214 flights
Feb13.0%6.7–43.6%7 months, 266 flights
Mar15.1%3.1–43.9%7 months, 365 flights
Apr16.3%10.5–44.6%7 months, 558 flights
May25.5%18.6–29.7%7 months, 610 flights
Jun25.9%13.6–41.9%7 months, 641 flights
Jul21.6%13.8–39.1%6 months, 536 flights
Aug22.6%19.4–35.6%6 months, 544 flights
Sep19.5%13.4–45.5%6 months, 524 flights
Oct17.9%10.0–28.7%6 months, 521 flights
Nov16.9%7.7–45.0%6 months, 274 flights
Dec29.5%12.1–40.5%6 months, 288 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 19.4% of 448 movements, Jet2.Com 21.4% of 112 movements, Ryanair 23.0% of 473 movements. The gap between them sits inside sampling noise.

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 Uk19.4% of 448 flightsJet2.Com21.4% of 112 flightsRyanair23.0% of 473 flights
Airline comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
AirlineOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
2 Excel Aviation The Blades Broadsword Scimitar Sabre And T2suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Blue Air Transport Aeriansuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Cello Aviationsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Eastern 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 Uk44819.4% of 448 movements0.2% of 448 movements0.2% of 448 movementsdescriptive comparison
Jet2.Com11221.4% of 112 movementsno events in 112 movementsno events in 112 movementsdescriptive comparison
Klasjet Uabsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Ryanair47323.0% of 473 movements0.2% of 473 movementsno events in 473 movementsdescriptive comparison
Titan 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, MME had the lowest disruption share at 4.9% of 103 movements and LCY the highest at 44.4% of 284 movements. This route sits at 21.3% of 1,033 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 optionAbz ↔ Malaga13.0% of 92 flightsBfs ↔ Malaga26.0% of 811 flightsBhx ↔ Malaga30.5% of 1,151 flightsBoh ↔ Malaga19.5% of 364 flightsBrs ↔ Malaga24.8% of 1,320 flightsCwl ↔ Malaga25.8% of 329 flightsEdi ↔ Malaga38.4% of 591 flightsEma ↔ Malaga24.1% of 806 flights
Airport comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
Other UK airport to the same cityOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Abz ↔ Malaga9213.0% of 92 movementsno events in 92 movementsno events in 92 movementsdescriptive comparison
Bfs ↔ Malaga81126.0% of 811 movements0.1% of 811 movements1.6% of 811 movementsdescriptive comparison
Bhd ↔ Malagasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Bhx ↔ Malaga1,15130.5% of 1,151 movements0.1% of 1,151 movements0.4% of 1,151 movementsdescriptive comparison
Boh ↔ Malaga36419.5% of 364 movements0.3% of 364 movements0.3% of 364 movementsdescriptive comparison
Brs ↔ Malaga1,32024.8% of 1,320 movements0.4% of 1,320 movements0.4% of 1,320 movementsdescriptive comparison
Cwl ↔ Malaga32925.8% of 329 movements0.3% of 329 movements0.6% of 329 movementsdescriptive comparison
Doncaster-Sheffield ↔ Malagasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Edi ↔ Malaga59138.4% of 591 movements0.2% of 591 movements0.3% of 591 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ema ↔ Malaga80624.1% of 806 movements0.1% of 806 movements0.7% of 806 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ext ↔ Malaga11734.2% of 117 movements0.9% of 117 movements0.9% of 117 movementsdescriptive comparison
Gla ↔ Malaga77629.4% of 776 movements0.4% of 776 movements0.3% of 776 movementsdescriptive comparison
Iom ↔ Malagasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Jer ↔ Malagasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Lba ↔ Malaga92128.6% of 921 movements0.7% of 921 movements0.8% of 921 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lcy ↔ Malaga28444.4% of 284 movements2.8% of 284 movements1.4% of 284 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lgw ↔ Malaga3,77928.8% of 3,779 movements0.7% of 3,779 movements1.1% of 3,779 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lhr ↔ Malaga77222.8% of 772 movements0.5% of 772 movements0.8% of 772 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ltn ↔ Malaga1,16037.7% of 1,160 movements0.3% of 1,160 movements0.7% of 1,160 movementsdescriptive comparison
Man ↔ Malaga1,76436.5% of 1,764 movements0.7% of 1,764 movements0.5% of 1,764 movementsdescriptive comparison
Mme ↔ Malaga1034.9% of 103 movements1.0% of 103 movementsno events in 103 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ncl ↔ Malaga71825.2% of 718 movementsno events in 718 movements0.1% of 718 movementsdescriptive comparison
Sen ↔ Malaga27622.1% of 276 movementsno events in 276 movementsno events in 276 movementsdescriptive comparison
Sou ↔ Malagasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Stn ↔ Malaga1,37229.9% of 1,372 movements0.1% of 1,372 movements0.3% of 1,372 movementsdescriptive comparison

Does the direction you are flying change anything?

Yes: arrivals into LPL ran 21.3% of 1,033 movements disrupted, departures 11.8% of 1,039 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 LPL21.3% of 1,033 movements0.2% of 1,033 movements0.1% of 1,033 movements
Departures from LPL11.8% of 1,039 movements0.4% of 1,039 movements0.3% of 1,039 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 202633 flights out of 6,05433 × £350 = £11,550
ArrivalsLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 202626 flights out of 4,26426 × £350 = £9,100
DeparturesWhole archive · Jan 2018–Jun 202619 flights out of 6,05219 × £350 = £6,650
DeparturesLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 202616 flights out of 4,26816 × £350 = £5,600
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 airportLIVERPOOL (JOHN LENNON) · LPL
Final point / countryMALAGA / SPAIN
Final point codesAGP / LEMG
Great-circle distance1,857 km
Maximum statutory amount for the band£350
Average operated arrivals per day2.82
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 archive99

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: 1,033; excluded by quarantine: 0.

Quick answers

How often is this route disrupted?

21.3% of 1,033 movements over July 2025 to June 2026. Arrivals into the UK airport; all published carriers.

How many flights are cancelled at short notice?

0.2% of 1,033 movements in the same window.

How many delays crossed three hours?

0.1% of 1,033 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?

1,857 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

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