UK FLIGHT DELAY INDEX

derived from CAA punctuality statistics for UK reporting airports

How often are these flights late or cancelled?

MAN ↔ ARRECIFE

In the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026, 40.9% of 1,474 movements arriving into MAN were disrupted — that is, they landed more than fifteen minutes late or were cancelled at short notice.

Put the other way round, 59.1% of 1,474 movements arrived on time by the industry's fifteen-minute standard. Severe delays were rarer: about one arrival in every 295 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, 40.9% of 1,474 movements were disrupted and 0.3% of 1,474 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
40.9% of 1,474 movements0.3% of 1,474 movements33.2–55.7 min; N of delayed flights=598–9601,474
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: 0.3% of 1,474 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 min40.6%30 min23.9%60 min8.7%120 min0.8%180 min0.3%360 min0.3%
Delay ladder table: share, movements and one-in-N
DelayShare and nMovementsOne delay in every N operations
>15 min40.6% of 1,474 movements5982.5
>30 min23.9% of 1,474 movements3534.2
>60 min8.7% of 1,474 movements12811.5
>120 min0.8% of 1,474 movements12122.8
>180 min0.3% of 1,474 movements5294.8
>360 min0.3% of 1,474 movements5294.8
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 early17311.7%15–1 early33622.8%0–15 late36224.5%16–3024516.6%31–6022515.3%61…1201167.9%121…18070.5%181…36000.0%>36050.3%D=1,475
Definitions, denominators and limits

Ratio of the long tail to sixteen-to-sixty-minute delays: 0.0106; 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 2021, 2.4% of 84 movements. Worst month: Dec 2025, 51.9% of 131 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: 28.7%; sample: 802018Feb 2018: 28.4%; sample: 95Mar 2018: 35.0%; sample: 117Apr 2018: 10.9%; sample: 101May 2018: 27.5%; sample: 80Jun 2018: 25.9%; sample: 85Jul 2018: 12.2%; sample: 90Aug 2018: 29.2%; sample: 89Sep 2018: 23.3%; sample: 86Oct 2018: 28.2%; sample: 103Nov 2018: 19.6%; sample: 112Dec 2018: 13.5%; sample: 104Jan 2019: 28.8%; sample: 1042019Feb 2019: 16.0%; sample: 106Mar 2019: 17.2%; sample: 128Apr 2019: 14.8%; sample: 122May 2019: 27.7%; sample: 94Jun 2019: 16.1%; sample: 93Jul 2019: 14.9%; sample: 101Aug 2019: 15.2%; sample: 105Sep 2019: 29.3%; sample: 99Oct 2019: 11.8%; sample: 102Nov 2019: 16.1%; sample: 93Dec 2019: 33.7%; sample: 98Jan 2020: 14.1%; sample: 852020Feb 2020: 28.0%; sample: 93Mar 2020: 35.1%; sample: 77Apr 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×May 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jun 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jul 2020: 14.7%; sample: 34Aug 2020: 10.2%; sample: 49Sep 2020: 3.6%; sample: 28Oct 2020: 0.0%; sample: 33Nov 2020: 10.8%; sample: 37Dec 2020: 27.3%; sample: 55Jan 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: 19.0%; sample: 21Jul 2021: 12.5%; sample: 48Aug 2021: 2.4%; sample: 84Sep 2021: 7.1%; sample: 85Oct 2021: 16.7%; sample: 90Nov 2021: 17.1%; sample: 105Dec 2021: 18.4%; sample: 103Jan 2022: 15.3%; sample: 852022Feb 2022: 25.5%; sample: 102Mar 2022: 21.4%; sample: 117Apr 2022: 31.7%; sample: 101May 2022: 46.0%; sample: 100Jun 2022: 35.4%; sample: 96Jul 2022: 35.8%; sample: 109Aug 2022: 26.1%; sample: 111Sep 2022: 41.0%; sample: 105Oct 2022: 30.8%; sample: 117Nov 2022: 27.5%; sample: 120Dec 2022: 38.1%; sample: 126Jan 2023: 31.1%; sample: 1192023Feb 2023: 12.3%; sample: 114Mar 2023: 41.0%; sample: 117Apr 2023: 29.4%; sample: 109May 2023: 39.8%; sample: 98Jun 2023: 34.0%; sample: 97Jul 2023: 42.9%; sample: 112Aug 2023: 44.1%; sample: 111Sep 2023: 50.0%; sample: 106Oct 2023: 28.9%; sample: 121Nov 2023: 25.2%; sample: 119Dec 2023: 23.6%; sample: 127Jan 2024: 25.6%; sample: 1172024Feb 2024: 43.5%; sample: 115Mar 2024: 35.1%; sample: 131Apr 2024: 29.8%; sample: 114May 2024: 25.4%; sample: 114Jun 2024: 44.9%; sample: 118Jul 2024: 36.0%; sample: 139Aug 2024: 40.7%; sample: 145Sep 2024: 44.3%; sample: 140Oct 2024: 37.5%; sample: 144Nov 2024: 46.2%; sample: 130Dec 2024: 42.8%; sample: 138Jan 2025: 46.9%; sample: 1282025Feb 2025: 34.1%; sample: 126Mar 2025: 38.1%; sample: 134Apr 2025: 35.8%; sample: 123May 2025: 36.0%; sample: 111Jun 2025: 39.2%; sample: 102Jul 2025: 48.1%; sample: 131Aug 2025: 37.7%; sample: 130Sep 2025: 42.9%; sample: 119Oct 2025: 46.2%; sample: 130Nov 2025: 35.6%; sample: 135Dec 2025: 51.9%; sample: 131Jan 2026: 40.3%; sample: 1242026Feb 2026: 45.2%; sample: 124Mar 2026: 47.1%; sample: 140Apr 2026: 26.7%; sample: 101May 2026: 32.7%; sample: 101Jun 2026: 29.6%; sample: 108Pandemic 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 201828.7% of 80 movements
Feb 201828.4% of 95 movements
Mar 201835.0% of 117 movements
Apr 201810.9% of 101 movements
May 201827.5% of 80 movements
Jun 201825.9% of 85 movements
Jul 201812.2% of 90 movements
Aug 201829.2% of 89 movements
Sep 201823.3% of 86 movements
Oct 201828.2% of 103 movements
Nov 201819.6% of 112 movements
Dec 201813.5% of 104 movements
Jan 201928.8% of 104 movements
Feb 201916.0% of 106 movements
Mar 201917.2% of 128 movements
Apr 201914.8% of 122 movements
May 201927.7% of 94 movements
Jun 201916.1% of 93 movements
Jul 201914.9% of 101 movements
Aug 201915.2% of 105 movements
Sep 201929.3% of 99 movements
Oct 201911.8% of 102 movements
Nov 201916.1% of 93 movements
Dec 201933.7% of 98 movements
Jan 202014.1% of 85 movements
Feb 202028.0% of 93 movements
Mar 202035.1% of 77 movements
Apr 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
May 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jun 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jul 202014.7% of 34 movements — small sample, not ranked
Aug 202010.2% of 49 movements — small sample, not ranked
Sep 20203.6% of 28 movements — small sample, not ranked
Oct 2020no events in 33 movements — small sample, not ranked
Nov 202010.8% of 37 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202027.3% of 55 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 202119.0% of 21 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jul 202112.5% of 48 movements — small sample, not ranked
Aug 20212.4% of 84 movements
Sep 20217.1% of 85 movements
Oct 202116.7% of 90 movements
Nov 202117.1% of 105 movements
Dec 202118.4% of 103 movements
Jan 202215.3% of 85 movements
Feb 202225.5% of 102 movements
Mar 202221.4% of 117 movements
Apr 202231.7% of 101 movements
May 202246.0% of 100 movements
Jun 202235.4% of 96 movements
Jul 202235.8% of 109 movements
Aug 202226.1% of 111 movements
Sep 202241.0% of 105 movements
Oct 202230.8% of 117 movements
Nov 202227.5% of 120 movements
Dec 202238.1% of 126 movements
Jan 202331.1% of 119 movements
Feb 202312.3% of 114 movements
Mar 202341.0% of 117 movements
Apr 202329.4% of 109 movements
May 202339.8% of 98 movements
Jun 202334.0% of 97 movements
Jul 202342.9% of 112 movements
Aug 202344.1% of 111 movements
Sep 202350.0% of 106 movements
Oct 202328.9% of 121 movements
Nov 202325.2% of 119 movements
Dec 202323.6% of 127 movements
Jan 202425.6% of 117 movements
Feb 202443.5% of 115 movements
Mar 202435.1% of 131 movements
Apr 202429.8% of 114 movements
May 202425.4% of 114 movements
Jun 202444.9% of 118 movements
Jul 202436.0% of 139 movements
Aug 202440.7% of 145 movements
Sep 202444.3% of 140 movements
Oct 202437.5% of 144 movements
Nov 202446.2% of 130 movements
Dec 202442.8% of 138 movements
Jan 202546.9% of 128 movements
Feb 202534.1% of 126 movements
Mar 202538.1% of 134 movements
Apr 202535.8% of 123 movements
May 202536.0% of 111 movements
Jun 202539.2% of 102 movements
Jul 202548.1% of 131 movements
Aug 202537.7% of 130 movements
Sep 202542.9% of 119 movements
Oct 202546.2% of 130 movements
Nov 202535.6% of 135 movements
Dec 202551.9% of 131 movements
Jan 202640.3% of 124 movements
Feb 202645.2% of 124 movements
Mar 202647.1% of 140 movements
Apr 202626.7% of 101 movements
May 202632.7% of 101 movements
Jun 202629.6% of 108 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 2022Arrivals35.8% of 109 movements20.8% across 1,116 flightsreturned after 7 months
Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022Departures57.3% of 110 movements23.5% across 1,114 flightsreturned after 4 months
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Arrivals44.1% of 111 movements32.8% across 1,345 flightsreturned after 2 months
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Departures60.6% of 109 movements36.2% across 1,343 flightsreturned after 2 months
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Arrivals38.1% of 134 movements38.6% across 1,567 flightsreturned the next month
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Departures32.6% of 135 movements38.8% across 1,560 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, 41.9% of arrivals were disrupted, measured across 6 Septembers in the archive. November has been the calmest, at 26.4% across 6 Novembers.

Even September has ranged from 23.3% to 50.0% 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 nJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec201928.8% of 104 movements16.0% of 106 movements17.2% of 128 movements14.8% of 122 movements27.7% of 94 movements16.1% of 93 movements14.9% of 101 movements15.2% of 105 movements29.3% of 99 movements11.8% of 102 movements16.1% of 93 movements33.7% of 98 movements202014.1% of 85 movements28.0% of 93 movements35.1% of 77 movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements14.7% of 34 movements †10.2% of 49 movements †3.6% of 28 movements †no events in 33 movements †10.8% of 37 movements †27.3% of 55 movements2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements19.0% of 21 movements †12.5% of 48 movements †2.4% of 84 movements7.1% of 85 movements16.7% of 90 movements17.1% of 105 movements18.4% of 103 movements202215.3% of 85 movements25.5% of 102 movements21.4% of 117 movements31.7% of 101 movements46.0% of 100 movements35.4% of 96 movements35.8% of 109 movements26.1% of 111 movements41.0% of 105 movements30.8% of 117 movements27.5% of 120 movements38.1% of 126 movements202331.1% of 119 movements12.3% of 114 movements41.0% of 117 movements29.4% of 109 movements39.8% of 98 movements34.0% of 97 movements42.9% of 112 movements44.1% of 111 movements50.0% of 106 movements28.9% of 121 movements25.2% of 119 movements23.6% of 127 movements202425.6% of 117 movements43.5% of 115 movements35.1% of 131 movements29.8% of 114 movements25.4% of 114 movements44.9% of 118 movements36.0% of 139 movements40.7% of 145 movements44.3% of 140 movements37.5% of 144 movements46.2% of 130 movements42.8% of 138 movements202546.9% of 128 movements34.1% of 126 movements38.1% of 134 movements35.8% of 123 movements36.0% of 111 movements39.2% of 102 movements48.1% of 131 movements37.7% of 130 movements42.9% of 119 movements46.2% of 130 movements35.6% of 135 movements51.9% of 131 movements202640.3% of 124 movements45.2% of 124 movements47.1% of 140 movements26.7% of 101 movements32.7% of 101 movements29.6% of 108 movementsno datano datano datano datano datano data
Month-by-month table: median, observed range and sample
MonthMedianObserved rangeSample
Jan28.8%15.3–46.9%7 months, 757 flights
Feb28.4%12.3–45.2%7 months, 782 flights
Mar35.1%17.2–47.1%7 months, 884 flights
Apr29.4%10.9–35.8%7 months, 771 flights
May32.7%25.4–46.0%7 months, 698 flights
Jun34.0%16.1–44.9%7 months, 699 flights
Jul35.9%12.2–48.1%6 months, 682 flights
Aug33.5%15.2–44.1%6 months, 691 flights
Sep41.9%23.3–50.0%6 months, 655 flights
Oct29.8%11.8–46.2%6 months, 717 flights
Nov26.4%16.1–46.2%6 months, 709 flights
Dec35.9%13.5–51.9%6 months, 724 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: Ryanair 33.1% of 423 movements, Ryanair Uk 36.8% of 38 movements — small sample, not ranked, Jet2.Com 37.3% of 504 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 optionEasyjet Uk51.4% of 282 flightsJet2.Com37.3% of 504 flightsRyanair33.1% of 423 flightsRyanair Uk †36.8% of 38 flightsTui Airways50.9% of 226 flights
Airline comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
AirlineOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Aer Lingussuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Air Transatsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Airtanker Servicessuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Condorsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Easyjet Uk28251.4% of 282 movements0.4% of 282 movements0.7% of 282 movementsdescriptive comparison
Jet2.Com50437.3% of 504 movements0.6% of 504 movements0.6% of 504 movementsdescriptive comparison
Monarch Airlinessuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Pullmantur Airsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Ryanair42333.1% of 423 movementsno events in 423 movementsno events in 423 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ryanair Uk3836.8% of 38 movements — small sample, not rankedno events in 38 movements — small sample, not rankedno events in 38 movements — small sample, not rankedsmall sample; not ranked
Thomas Cook Airlinessuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Titan Airwayssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Tui Airways22650.9% of 226 movementsno events in 226 movementsno events in 226 movementsdescriptive comparison
Tyrol Air Ambulancesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Wideroe Flyveselskap A/Ssuppressed: 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, SEN had the lowest disruption share at 21.0% of 62 movements and CWL the highest at 51.9% of 104 movements. This route sits at 40.9% of 1,474 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 ↔ Arrecife24.7% of 518 flightsBhx ↔ Arrecife27.6% of 782 flightsBoh ↔ Arrecife22.4% of 277 flightsBrs ↔ Arrecife31.2% of 811 flightsCwl ↔ Arrecife51.9% of 104 flightsEdi ↔ Arrecife37.3% of 644 flightsEma ↔ Arrecife32.1% of 677 flightsExt ↔ Arrecife38.3% of 94 flights
Airport comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
Other UK airport to the same cityOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Bfs ↔ Arrecife51824.7% of 518 movementsno events in 518 movements0.8% of 518 movementsdescriptive comparison
Bhx ↔ Arrecife78227.6% of 782 movementsno events in 782 movements0.9% of 782 movementsdescriptive comparison
Boh ↔ Arrecife27722.4% of 277 movements0.4% of 277 movementsno events in 277 movementsdescriptive comparison
Brs ↔ Arrecife81131.2% of 811 movementsno events in 811 movements0.2% of 811 movementsdescriptive comparison
Cwl ↔ Arrecife10451.9% of 104 movementsno events in 104 movements1.9% of 104 movementsdescriptive comparison
Doncaster-Sheffield ↔ Arrecifesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Edi ↔ Arrecife64437.3% of 644 movements0.6% of 644 movementsno events in 644 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ema ↔ Arrecife67732.1% of 677 movements0.3% of 677 movements0.4% of 677 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ext ↔ Arrecife9438.3% of 94 movementsno events in 94 movementsno events in 94 movementsdescriptive comparison
Gla ↔ Arrecife43834.9% of 438 movementsno events in 438 movements1.4% of 438 movementsdescriptive comparison
Iom ↔ Arrecifesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Jer ↔ Arrecifesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Lba ↔ Arrecife46621.5% of 466 movements0.2% of 466 movements0.6% of 466 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lgw ↔ Arrecife1,40939.5% of 1,409 movements0.6% of 1,409 movements0.7% of 1,409 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lhr ↔ Arrecifesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Lpl ↔ Arrecife58524.8% of 585 movements0.2% of 585 movements0.2% of 585 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ltn ↔ Arrecife50236.3% of 502 movements0.6% of 502 movements0.6% of 502 movementsdescriptive comparison
Mme ↔ Arrecifesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Ncl ↔ Arrecife52231.4% of 522 movementsno events in 522 movements0.6% of 522 movementsdescriptive comparison
Sen ↔ Arrecife6221.0% of 62 movementsno events in 62 movementsno events in 62 movementsdescriptive comparison
Stn ↔ Arrecife87024.3% of 870 movements0.1% of 870 movements0.9% of 870 movementsdescriptive comparison

Does the direction you are flying change anything?

Barely: arrivals into MAN ran 40.9% of 1,474 movements disrupted, departures 38.4% of 1,470 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 MAN40.9% of 1,474 movements0.3% of 1,474 movements0.3% of 1,474 movements
Departures from MAN38.4% of 1,470 movementsno events in 1,470 movements0.1% of 1,470 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 202690 flights out of 9,84390 × £350 = £31,500
ArrivalsLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 202659 flights out of 7,19759 × £350 = £20,650
DeparturesWhole archive · Jan 2018–Jun 202654 flights out of 9,80054 × £350 = £18,900
DeparturesLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 202635 flights out of 7,16835 × £350 = £12,250
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 airportMANCHESTER · MAN
Final point / countryARRECIFE / SPAIN(CANARY ISLANDS)
Final point codesACE / GCRR
Great-circle distance2,866 km
Maximum statutory amount for the band£350
Average operated arrivals per day4.02
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: 1; all recorded operations: 1,475; excluded by quarantine: 0.

Quick answers

How often is this route disrupted?

40.9% of 1,474 movements over July 2025 to June 2026. Arrivals into the UK airport; all published carriers.

How many flights are cancelled at short notice?

0.3% of 1,474 movements in the same window.

How many delays crossed three hours?

0.3% of 1,474 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?

2,866 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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