UK FLIGHT DELAY INDEX

derived from CAA punctuality statistics for UK reporting airports

How often are these flights late or cancelled?

MAN ↔ LAS PALMAS

In the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026, 49.0% of 838 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, 51.0% of 838 movements arrived on time by the industry's fifteen-minute standard. Severe delays were rarer: about one arrival in every 168 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, 49.0% of 838 movements were disrupted and 0.1% of 838 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
49.0% of 838 movements0.1% of 838 movements36.6–59.0 min; N of delayed flights=410–637838
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: 0.1% of 838 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 min48.9%30 min31.3%60 min12.3%120 min2.5%180 min0.6%360 min0.2%
Delay ladder table: share, movements and one-in-N
DelayShare and nMovementsOne delay in every N operations
>15 min48.9% of 838 movements4102.0
>30 min31.3% of 838 movements2623.2
>60 min12.3% of 838 movements1038.1
>120 min2.5% of 838 movements2139.9
>180 min0.6% of 838 movements5167.6
>360 min0.2% of 838 movements2419.0
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?

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 early657.8%15–1 early13516.1%0–15 late22727.1%16–3014817.7%31–6015919.0%61…120829.8%121…180161.9%181…36030.4%>36020.2%D=838
Definitions, denominators and limits

Ratio of the long tail to sixteen-to-sixty-minute delays: 0.0163; 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 2018, 10.0% of 60 movements. Worst month: Sep 2024, 78.7% of 75 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: 21.9%; sample: 642018Feb 2018: 26.7%; sample: 60Mar 2018: 32.3%; sample: 65Apr 2018: 10.0%; sample: 60May 2018: 26.2%; sample: 61Jun 2018: 28.1%; sample: 64Jul 2018: 27.7%; sample: 65Aug 2018: 16.7%; sample: 66Sep 2018: 13.8%; sample: 65Oct 2018: 21.1%; sample: 71Nov 2018: 20.6%; sample: 68Dec 2018: 25.7%; sample: 70Jan 2019: 32.8%; sample: 672019Feb 2019: 21.0%; sample: 62Mar 2019: 26.1%; sample: 69Apr 2019: 19.7%; sample: 61May 2019: 28.6%; sample: 56Jun 2019: 17.9%; sample: 56Jul 2019: 19.3%; sample: 57Aug 2019: 15.5%; sample: 58Sep 2019: 25.5%; sample: 55Oct 2019: 22.4%; sample: 58Nov 2019: 31.7%; sample: 60Dec 2019: 33.3%; sample: 60Jan 2020: 25.9%; sample: 582020Feb 2020: 47.2%; sample: 53Mar 2020: 38.5%; sample: 39Apr 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: 42.9%; sample: 28Jan 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×2021Feb 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Mar 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Apr 2021: no data×May 2021: no data×Jun 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jul 2021: 15.4%; sample: 26Aug 2021: 15.1%; sample: 53Sep 2021: 26.7%; sample: 60Oct 2021: 32.3%; sample: 65Nov 2021: 38.7%; sample: 62Dec 2021: 27.7%; sample: 65Jan 2022: 22.0%; sample: 502022Feb 2022: 33.9%; sample: 56Mar 2022: 25.8%; sample: 66Apr 2022: 31.0%; sample: 58May 2022: 47.2%; sample: 72Jun 2022: 63.4%; sample: 71Jul 2022: 51.2%; sample: 80Aug 2022: 44.4%; sample: 81Sep 2022: 71.6%; sample: 74Oct 2022: 37.7%; sample: 77Nov 2022: 32.2%; sample: 59Dec 2022: 47.7%; sample: 65Jan 2023: 39.7%; sample: 632023Feb 2023: 25.9%; sample: 54Mar 2023: 48.3%; sample: 58Apr 2023: 44.3%; sample: 61May 2023: 46.4%; sample: 69Jun 2023: 52.9%; sample: 70Jul 2023: 54.4%; sample: 79Aug 2023: 63.1%; sample: 84Sep 2023: 57.5%; sample: 73Oct 2023: 45.1%; sample: 71Nov 2023: 28.1%; sample: 64Dec 2023: 52.3%; sample: 65Jan 2024: 29.7%; sample: 642024Feb 2024: 44.1%; sample: 59Mar 2024: 31.3%; sample: 67Apr 2024: 46.2%; sample: 65May 2024: 43.5%; sample: 69Jun 2024: 60.0%; sample: 75Jul 2024: 58.7%; sample: 75Aug 2024: 57.9%; sample: 76Sep 2024: 78.7%; sample: 75Oct 2024: 58.4%; sample: 77Nov 2024: 51.9%; sample: 77Dec 2024: 51.4%; sample: 74Jan 2025: 61.8%; sample: 682025Feb 2025: 33.8%; sample: 68Mar 2025: 31.2%; sample: 77Apr 2025: 27.0%; sample: 63May 2025: 42.4%; sample: 66Jun 2025: 41.2%; sample: 68Jul 2025: 57.7%; sample: 71Aug 2025: 50.0%; sample: 70Sep 2025: 55.7%; sample: 70Oct 2025: 59.5%; sample: 74Nov 2025: 58.6%; sample: 70Dec 2025: 51.4%; sample: 72Jan 2026: 42.1%; sample: 762026Feb 2026: 41.9%; sample: 62Mar 2026: 45.2%; sample: 73Apr 2026: 27.0%; sample: 63May 2026: 51.6%; sample: 64Jun 2026: 45.2%; sample: 73Pandemic 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 201821.9% of 64 movements
Feb 201826.7% of 60 movements
Mar 201832.3% of 65 movements
Apr 201810.0% of 60 movements
May 201826.2% of 61 movements
Jun 201828.1% of 64 movements
Jul 201827.7% of 65 movements
Aug 201816.7% of 66 movements
Sep 201813.8% of 65 movements
Oct 201821.1% of 71 movements
Nov 201820.6% of 68 movements
Dec 201825.7% of 70 movements
Jan 201932.8% of 67 movements
Feb 201921.0% of 62 movements
Mar 201926.1% of 69 movements
Apr 201919.7% of 61 movements
May 201928.6% of 56 movements
Jun 201917.9% of 56 movements
Jul 201919.3% of 57 movements
Aug 201915.5% of 58 movements
Sep 201925.5% of 55 movements
Oct 201922.4% of 58 movements
Nov 201931.7% of 60 movements
Dec 201933.3% of 60 movements
Jan 202025.9% of 58 movements
Feb 202047.2% of 53 movements
Mar 202038.5% of 39 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 202042.9% of 28 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Feb 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Mar 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Apr 2021no data
May 2021no data
Jun 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jul 202115.4% of 26 movements — small sample, not ranked
Aug 202115.1% of 53 movements
Sep 202126.7% of 60 movements
Oct 202132.3% of 65 movements
Nov 202138.7% of 62 movements
Dec 202127.7% of 65 movements
Jan 202222.0% of 50 movements
Feb 202233.9% of 56 movements
Mar 202225.8% of 66 movements
Apr 202231.0% of 58 movements
May 202247.2% of 72 movements
Jun 202263.4% of 71 movements
Jul 202251.2% of 80 movements
Aug 202244.4% of 81 movements
Sep 202271.6% of 74 movements
Oct 202237.7% of 77 movements
Nov 202232.2% of 59 movements
Dec 202247.7% of 65 movements
Jan 202339.7% of 63 movements
Feb 202325.9% of 54 movements
Mar 202348.3% of 58 movements
Apr 202344.3% of 61 movements
May 202346.4% of 69 movements
Jun 202352.9% of 70 movements
Jul 202354.4% of 79 movements
Aug 202363.1% of 84 movements
Sep 202357.5% of 73 movements
Oct 202345.1% of 71 movements
Nov 202328.1% of 64 movements
Dec 202352.3% of 65 movements
Jan 202429.7% of 64 movements
Feb 202444.1% of 59 movements
Mar 202431.3% of 67 movements
Apr 202446.2% of 65 movements
May 202443.5% of 69 movements
Jun 202460.0% of 75 movements
Jul 202458.7% of 75 movements
Aug 202457.9% of 76 movements
Sep 202478.7% of 75 movements
Oct 202458.4% of 77 movements
Nov 202451.9% of 77 movements
Dec 202451.4% of 74 movements
Jan 202561.8% of 68 movements
Feb 202533.8% of 68 movements
Mar 202531.2% of 77 movements
Apr 202527.0% of 63 movements
May 202542.4% of 66 movements
Jun 202541.2% of 68 movements
Jul 202557.7% of 71 movements
Aug 202550.0% of 70 movements
Sep 202555.7% of 70 movements
Oct 202559.5% of 74 movements
Nov 202558.6% of 70 movements
Dec 202551.4% of 72 movements
Jan 202642.1% of 76 movements
Feb 202641.9% of 62 movements
Mar 202645.2% of 73 movements
Apr 202627.0% of 63 movements
May 202651.6% of 64 movements
Jun 202645.2% of 73 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 2022Arrivals51.2% of 80 movements31.6% across 704 flightsreturned after 7 months
Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022Departures67.1% of 79 movements31.8% across 709 flightsreturned after 4 months
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Arrivals63.1% of 84 movements45.5% across 810 flightsreturned after 2 months
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Departures76.2% of 84 movements42.7% across 810 flightsreturned after 3 months
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Arrivals31.2% of 77 movements52.8% across 866 flightsreturned the next month
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Departures23.4% of 77 movements43.7% across 859 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, 56.6% of arrivals were disrupted, measured across 6 Septembers in the archive. April has been the calmest, at 27.0% across 7 Aprils.

Even September has ranged from 13.8% to 78.7% 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 nJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec201932.8% of 67 movements21.0% of 62 movements26.1% of 69 movements19.7% of 61 movements28.6% of 56 movements17.9% of 56 movements19.3% of 57 movements15.5% of 58 movements25.5% of 55 movements22.4% of 58 movements31.7% of 60 movements33.3% of 60 movements202025.9% of 58 movements47.2% of 53 movements38.5% of 39 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 movements42.9% of 28 movements †2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementsno datano datasuppressed: fewer than twenty movements15.4% of 26 movements †15.1% of 53 movements26.7% of 60 movements32.3% of 65 movements38.7% of 62 movements27.7% of 65 movements202222.0% of 50 movements33.9% of 56 movements25.8% of 66 movements31.0% of 58 movements47.2% of 72 movements63.4% of 71 movements51.2% of 80 movements44.4% of 81 movements71.6% of 74 movements37.7% of 77 movements32.2% of 59 movements47.7% of 65 movements202339.7% of 63 movements25.9% of 54 movements48.3% of 58 movements44.3% of 61 movements46.4% of 69 movements52.9% of 70 movements54.4% of 79 movements63.1% of 84 movements57.5% of 73 movements45.1% of 71 movements28.1% of 64 movements52.3% of 65 movements202429.7% of 64 movements44.1% of 59 movements31.3% of 67 movements46.2% of 65 movements43.5% of 69 movements60.0% of 75 movements58.7% of 75 movements57.9% of 76 movements78.7% of 75 movements58.4% of 77 movements51.9% of 77 movements51.4% of 74 movements202561.8% of 68 movements33.8% of 68 movements31.2% of 77 movements27.0% of 63 movements42.4% of 66 movements41.2% of 68 movements57.7% of 71 movements50.0% of 70 movements55.7% of 70 movements59.5% of 74 movements58.6% of 70 movements51.4% of 72 movements202642.1% of 76 movements41.9% of 62 movements45.2% of 73 movements27.0% of 63 movements51.6% of 64 movements45.2% of 73 movementsno datano datano datano datano datano data
Month-by-month table: median, observed range and sample
MonthMedianObserved rangeSample
Jan32.8%21.9–61.8%7 months, 452 flights
Feb33.8%21.0–44.1%7 months, 421 flights
Mar31.3%25.8–48.3%7 months, 475 flights
Apr27.0%10.0–46.2%7 months, 431 flights
May43.5%26.2–51.6%7 months, 457 flights
Jun45.2%17.9–63.4%7 months, 477 flights
Jul52.8%19.3–58.7%6 months, 427 flights
Aug47.2%15.5–63.1%6 months, 435 flights
Sep56.6%13.8–78.7%6 months, 412 flights
Oct41.4%21.1–59.5%6 months, 428 flights
Nov31.9%20.6–58.6%6 months, 398 flights
Dec49.5%25.7–52.3%6 months, 406 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 34.3% of 213 movements, Easyjet Uk 49.1% of 110 movements, Jet2.Com 55.9% of 340 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 Uk49.1% of 110 flightsJet2.Com55.9% of 340 flightsRyanair34.3% of 213 flightsTui Airways57.9% of 159 flights
Airline comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
AirlineOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Air Transatsuppressed: 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 Uk11049.1% of 110 movements0.9% of 110 movementsno events in 110 movementsdescriptive comparison
Jet2.Com34055.9% of 340 movementsno events in 340 movementsno events in 340 movementsdescriptive comparison
Monarch Airlinessuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Norwegian Air Internationalsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Norwegian Air Shuttlesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Pullmantur Airsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Ryanair21334.3% of 213 movementsno events in 213 movements0.9% of 213 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ryanair Uksuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Sassuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Thomas Cook Airlinessuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Titan Airwayssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Tui Airways15957.9% of 159 movementsno events in 159 movements1.9% of 159 movementsdescriptive comparison

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, BOH had the lowest disruption share at 17.7% of 141 movements and CWL the highest at 43.2% of 81 movements. This route sits at 49.0% of 838 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 ↔ Las-Palmas32.1% of 162 flightsBhx ↔ Las-Palmas32.9% of 604 flightsBoh ↔ Las-Palmas17.7% of 141 flightsBrs ↔ Las-Palmas38.6% of 546 flightsCwl ↔ Las-Palmas43.2% of 81 flightsEdi ↔ Las-Palmas35.6% of 351 flightsEma ↔ Las-Palmas26.5% of 377 flightsExt ↔ Las-Palmas †24.1% of 29 flights
Airport comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
Other UK airport to the same cityOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Abz ↔ Las-Palmassuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Bfs ↔ Las-Palmas16232.1% of 162 movementsno events in 162 movements1.2% of 162 movementsdescriptive comparison
Bhx ↔ Las-Palmas60432.9% of 604 movementsno events in 604 movements0.3% of 604 movementsdescriptive comparison
Boh ↔ Las-Palmas14117.7% of 141 movementsno events in 141 movements0.7% of 141 movementsdescriptive comparison
Brs ↔ Las-Palmas54638.6% of 546 movements0.2% of 546 movements0.2% of 546 movementsdescriptive comparison
Cwl ↔ Las-Palmas8143.2% of 81 movementsno events in 81 movements1.2% of 81 movementsdescriptive comparison
Doncaster-Sheffield ↔ Las-Palmassuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Edi ↔ Las-Palmas35135.6% of 351 movements0.3% of 351 movements0.3% of 351 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ema ↔ Las-Palmas37726.5% of 377 movementsno events in 377 movements0.3% of 377 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ext ↔ Las-Palmas2924.1% of 29 movements — small sample, not rankedno events in 29 movements — small sample, not rankedno events in 29 movements — small sample, not rankedsmall sample; not ranked
Gla ↔ Las-Palmas35430.5% of 354 movements0.6% of 354 movements0.3% of 354 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lba ↔ Las-Palmas21223.1% of 212 movements0.9% of 212 movements0.5% of 212 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lgw ↔ Las-Palmas91437.6% of 914 movements0.2% of 914 movements0.8% of 914 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lhr ↔ Las-Palmassuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Lpl ↔ Las-Palmas20318.7% of 203 movements1.0% of 203 movementsno events in 203 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ltn ↔ Las-Palmas41830.1% of 418 movements0.5% of 418 movements0.2% of 418 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ncl ↔ Las-Palmas35537.2% of 355 movementsno events in 355 movements0.6% of 355 movementsdescriptive comparison
Sen ↔ Las-Palmas15219.7% of 152 movementsno events in 152 movementsno events in 152 movementsdescriptive comparison
Stn ↔ Las-Palmas69328.7% of 693 movements0.3% of 693 movementsno events in 693 movementsdescriptive comparison

Does the direction you are flying change anything?

Yes: arrivals into MAN ran 49.0% of 838 movements disrupted, departures 39.4% of 837 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 MAN49.0% of 838 movements0.1% of 838 movements0.6% of 838 movements
Departures from MAN39.4% of 837 movementsno events in 837 movements0.2% of 837 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 202656 flights out of 5,76856 × £350 = £19,600
ArrivalsLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 202642 flights out of 4,12042 × £350 = £14,700
DeparturesWhole archive · Jan 2018–Jun 202644 flights out of 5,74344 × £350 = £15,400
DeparturesLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 202635 flights out of 4,10635 × £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 / countryLAS PALMAS / SPAIN(CANARY ISLANDS)
Final point codesLPA / GCLP
Great-circle distance3,024 km
Maximum statutory amount for the band£350
Average operated arrivals per day2.29
Presence in the latest twelve-month windowoperations present in every month of the latest twelve-month window
First and last active monthJan 2018–Jun 2026
Months with operations in the archive93

origin_destination is the final point of the CAA service, not evidence of a nonstop connection. The distance joins the coordinates of the named airports; the actual track is unknown. Frequency describes published operations.

What this data cannot tell you

Delay cause is not published in the regulator's open data. Monthly aggregates describe a population, not a specific flight. Cells below twenty operations are suppressed; twenty to forty-nine are descriptive only and not ranked. Arrivals and departures do not add up. Cancellations are short-notice only, by the CAA definition. A movement is not the same as a scheduled flight.

0 operations (0.00%) excluded because their published percentages could not be reconciled to whole numbers. Excluded operations enter neither the numerator nor the denominator. Outcome figures and comparisons are unavailable when the excluded share exceeds fifteen percent.

Data-quality counters for this route

Zero observed events does not mean zero risk. Operator coverage against the Summary file is not established in this record; comparisons are limited to the published population.

Unmatched records: 0; all recorded operations: 838; excluded by quarantine: 0.

Quick answers

How often is this route disrupted?

49.0% of 838 movements over July 2025 to June 2026. Arrivals into the UK airport; all published carriers.

How many flights are cancelled at short notice?

0.1% of 838 movements in the same window.

How many delays crossed three hours?

0.6% of 838 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?

3,024 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.

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Reconstruction and formulas

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