UK FLIGHT DELAY INDEX

derived from CAA punctuality statistics for UK reporting airports

How often are these flights late or cancelled?

MAN ↔ NAPLES

In the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026, 53.2% of 585 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, 46.8% of 585 movements arrived on time by the industry's fifteen-minute standard. Severe delays were rarer: about one arrival in every 98 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, 53.2% of 585 movements were disrupted and 0.2% of 585 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
53.2% of 585 movements0.2% of 585 movements38.6–58.6 min; N of delayed flights=310–455585
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 585 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 min53.0%30 min36.2%60 min15.0%120 min3.1%180 min1.0%360 min0.2%
Delay ladder table: share, movements and one-in-N
DelayShare and nMovementsOne delay in every N operations
>15 min53.0% of 585 movements3101.9
>30 min36.2% of 585 movements2122.8
>60 min15.0% of 585 movements886.6
>120 min3.1% of 585 movements1832.5
>180 min1.0% of 585 movements697.5
>360 min0.2% of 585 movements1585.0
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 early223.8%15–1 early10718.3%0–15 late14524.8%16–309816.8%31–6012421.2%61…1207012.0%121…180122.1%181…36050.9%>36010.2%D=585
Definitions, denominators and limits

Ratio of the long tail to sixteen-to-sixty-minute delays: 0.0270; 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, 23.6% of 55 movements. Worst month: Jul 2024, 85.9% of 64 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: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×2018Feb 2018: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Mar 2018: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Apr 2018: 13.3%; sample: 30May 2018: 26.3%; sample: 38Jun 2018: 32.7%; sample: 49Jul 2018: 37.5%; sample: 48Aug 2018: 28.0%; sample: 50Sep 2018: 17.4%; sample: 46Oct 2018: 30.8%; sample: 39Nov 2018: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Dec 2018: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jan 2019: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×2019Feb 2019: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Mar 2019: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Apr 2019: 21.2%; sample: 33May 2019: 40.0%; sample: 55Jun 2019: 43.1%; sample: 51Jul 2019: 55.6%; sample: 54Aug 2019: 50.9%; sample: 53Sep 2019: 42.0%; sample: 50Oct 2019: 45.8%; sample: 48Nov 2019: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Dec 2019: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jan 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×2020Feb 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Mar 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Apr 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: 9.1%; sample: 22Sep 2020: 4.8%; sample: 21Oct 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: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jul 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Aug 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Sep 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Oct 2021: 18.2%; sample: 22Nov 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Dec 2021: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jan 2022: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×2022Feb 2022: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Mar 2022: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Apr 2022: 42.5%; sample: 40May 2022: 54.2%; sample: 48Jun 2022: 58.8%; sample: 51Jul 2022: 49.1%; sample: 53Aug 2022: 50.0%; sample: 52Sep 2022: 66.0%; sample: 53Oct 2022: 35.3%; sample: 51Nov 2022: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Dec 2022: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jan 2023: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×2023Feb 2023: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Mar 2023: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Apr 2023: 37.8%; sample: 45May 2023: 31.2%; sample: 48Jun 2023: 66.7%; sample: 51Jul 2023: 79.2%; sample: 53Aug 2023: 64.2%; sample: 53Sep 2023: 55.1%; sample: 49Oct 2023: 40.8%; sample: 49Nov 2023: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Dec 2023: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jan 2024: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×2024Feb 2024: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Mar 2024: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Apr 2024: 33.3%; sample: 51May 2024: 55.2%; sample: 58Jun 2024: 61.9%; sample: 63Jul 2024: 85.9%; sample: 64Aug 2024: 74.2%; sample: 66Sep 2024: 70.5%; sample: 61Oct 2024: 38.2%; sample: 55Nov 2024: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Dec 2024: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jan 2025: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×2025Feb 2025: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Mar 2025: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Apr 2025: 23.6%; sample: 55May 2025: 52.4%; sample: 63Jun 2025: 65.6%; sample: 64Jul 2025: 68.6%; sample: 70Aug 2025: 71.8%; sample: 71Sep 2025: 62.3%; sample: 69Oct 2025: 44.6%; sample: 65Nov 2025: 44.0%; sample: 25Dec 2025: 36.4%; sample: 22Jan 2026: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×2026Feb 2026: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Mar 2026: 32.0%; sample: 25Apr 2026: 32.2%; sample: 59May 2026: 50.0%; sample: 70Jun 2026: 56.8%; sample: 74Pandemic 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 2018suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Feb 2018suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Mar 2018suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Apr 201813.3% of 30 movements — small sample, not ranked
May 201826.3% of 38 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jun 201832.7% of 49 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jul 201837.5% of 48 movements — small sample, not ranked
Aug 201828.0% of 50 movements
Sep 201817.4% of 46 movements — small sample, not ranked
Oct 201830.8% of 39 movements — small sample, not ranked
Nov 2018suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Dec 2018suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jan 2019suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Feb 2019suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Mar 2019suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Apr 201921.2% of 33 movements — small sample, not ranked
May 201940.0% of 55 movements
Jun 201943.1% of 51 movements
Jul 201955.6% of 54 movements
Aug 201950.9% of 53 movements
Sep 201942.0% of 50 movements
Oct 201945.8% of 48 movements — small sample, not ranked
Nov 2019suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Dec 2019suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jan 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Feb 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Mar 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Apr 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
May 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jun 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jul 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Aug 20209.1% of 22 movements — small sample, not ranked
Sep 20204.8% of 21 movements — small sample, not ranked
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 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jul 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Aug 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Sep 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Oct 202118.2% of 22 movements — small sample, not ranked
Nov 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Dec 2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jan 2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Feb 2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Mar 2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Apr 202242.5% of 40 movements — small sample, not ranked
May 202254.2% of 48 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jun 202258.8% of 51 movements
Jul 202249.1% of 53 movements
Aug 202250.0% of 52 movements
Sep 202266.0% of 53 movements
Oct 202235.3% of 51 movements
Nov 2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Dec 2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jan 2023suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Feb 2023suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Mar 2023suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Apr 202337.8% of 45 movements — small sample, not ranked
May 202331.2% of 48 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jun 202366.7% of 51 movements
Jul 202379.2% of 53 movements
Aug 202364.2% of 53 movements
Sep 202355.1% of 49 movements — small sample, not ranked
Oct 202340.8% of 49 movements — small sample, not ranked
Nov 2023suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Dec 2023suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jan 2024suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Feb 2024suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Mar 2024suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Apr 202433.3% of 51 movements
May 202455.2% of 58 movements
Jun 202461.9% of 63 movements
Jul 202485.9% of 64 movements
Aug 202474.2% of 66 movements
Sep 202470.5% of 61 movements
Oct 202438.2% of 55 movements
Nov 2024suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Dec 2024suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jan 2025suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Feb 2025suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Mar 2025suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Apr 202523.6% of 55 movements
May 202552.4% of 63 movements
Jun 202565.6% of 64 movements
Jul 202568.6% of 70 movements
Aug 202571.8% of 71 movements
Sep 202562.3% of 69 movements
Oct 202544.6% of 65 movements
Nov 202544.0% of 25 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 202536.4% of 22 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 2026suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Feb 2026suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Mar 202632.0% of 25 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 202632.2% of 59 movements
May 202650.0% of 70 movements
Jun 202656.8% of 74 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 2022Arrivals49.1% of 53 movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022Departures46.3% of 54 movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Arrivals64.2% of 53 movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Departures57.7% of 52 movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Arrivalssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event month
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Departuressuppressed: fewer than twenty movementsno complete baselinenot enough data: needs a complete baseline and a publishable event 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?

July has historically been the hardest month on this route: in a typical July, 62.1% of arrivals were disrupted, measured across 6 Julys in the archive. March has been the calmest, at 32.0% across 1 Marchs.

Even July has ranged from 37.5% to 85.9% 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 nJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2019suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements21.2% of 33 movements †40.0% of 55 movements43.1% of 51 movements55.6% of 54 movements50.9% of 53 movements42.0% of 50 movements45.8% of 48 movements †suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements2020suppressed: 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 movements9.1% of 22 movements †4.8% of 21 movements †suppressed: 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 datasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements18.2% of 22 movements †suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements2022suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements42.5% of 40 movements †54.2% of 48 movements †58.8% of 51 movements49.1% of 53 movements50.0% of 52 movements66.0% of 53 movements35.3% of 51 movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements2023suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements37.8% of 45 movements †31.2% of 48 movements †66.7% of 51 movements79.2% of 53 movements64.2% of 53 movements55.1% of 49 movements †40.8% of 49 movements †suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements2024suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements33.3% of 51 movements55.2% of 58 movements61.9% of 63 movements85.9% of 64 movements74.2% of 66 movements70.5% of 61 movements38.2% of 55 movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements2025suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements23.6% of 55 movements52.4% of 63 movements65.6% of 64 movements68.6% of 70 movements71.8% of 71 movements62.3% of 69 movements44.6% of 65 movements44.0% of 25 movements †36.4% of 22 movements †2026suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements32.0% of 25 movements †32.2% of 59 movements50.0% of 70 movements56.8% of 74 movementsno datano datano datano datano datano data
Month-by-month table: median, observed range and sample
MonthMedianObserved rangeSample
Janno datano datano data
Febno datano datano data
Mar32.0%32.0%1 months, 25 flights
Apr32.2%13.3–42.5%7 months, 313 flights
May50.0%26.3–55.2%7 months, 380 flights
Jun58.8%32.7–66.7%7 months, 403 flights
Jul62.1%37.5–85.9%6 months, 342 flights
Aug57.5%28.0–74.2%6 months, 345 flights
Sep58.7%17.4–70.5%6 months, 328 flights
Oct39.5%30.8–45.8%6 months, 307 flights
Nov44.0%44.0%1 months, 25 flights
Dec36.4%36.4%1 months, 22 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 Europe 13.8% of 58 movements, Easyjet Uk 45.8% of 107 movements, Ryanair 57.3% of 225 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 Europe13.8% of 58 flightsEasyjet Uk45.8% of 107 flightsJet2.Com58.9% of 112 flightsRyanair57.3% of 225 flightsRyanair Uk †72.7% of 22 flightsTui Airways70.5% of 61 flights
Airline comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
AirlineOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Air Onesuppressed: 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
City Jetsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Easyjet Europe5813.8% of 58 movementsno events in 58 movementsno events in 58 movementsdescriptive comparison
Easyjet Uk10745.8% of 107 movements0.9% of 107 movements1.9% of 107 movementsdescriptive comparison
Enter Airsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Hi Flysuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Jet2.Com11258.9% of 112 movementsno events in 112 movements1.8% of 112 movementsdescriptive comparison
Monarch Airlinessuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Ryanair22557.3% of 225 movementsno events in 225 movements0.9% of 225 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ryanair Uk2272.7% of 22 movements — small sample, not rankedno events in 22 movements — small sample, not rankedno events in 22 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 Airways6170.5% of 61 movementsno events in 61 movementsno events in 61 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, EMA had the lowest disruption share at 20.5% of 73 movements and NCL the highest at 64.0% of 50 movements. This route sits at 53.2% of 585 movements.

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

Observed disruption share by optionBhx ↔ Naples46.2% of 132 flightsBrs ↔ Naples39.1% of 128 flightsEdi ↔ Naples42.4% of 255 flightsEma ↔ Naples20.5% of 73 flightsGla ↔ Naples56.6% of 53 flightsLba ↔ Naples34.9% of 63 flightsLgw ↔ Naples33.3% of 966 flightsLhr ↔ Naples34.7% of 714 flights
Airport comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
Other UK airport to the same cityOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Abz ↔ Naplessuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Bfs ↔ Naplessuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Bhx ↔ Naples13246.2% of 132 movementsno events in 132 movements0.8% of 132 movementsdescriptive comparison
Boh ↔ Naplessuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Brs ↔ Naples12839.1% of 128 movementsno events in 128 movements0.8% of 128 movementsdescriptive comparison
Cwl ↔ Naplessuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Doncaster-Sheffield ↔ Naplessuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Durham-Tees-Valley ↔ Naplessuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Edi ↔ Naples25542.4% of 255 movements0.4% of 255 movements2.0% of 255 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ema ↔ Naples7320.5% of 73 movementsno events in 73 movementsno events in 73 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ext ↔ Naplessuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Gla ↔ Naples5356.6% of 53 movementsno events in 53 movements1.9% of 53 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lba ↔ Naples6334.9% of 63 movementsno events in 63 movementsno events in 63 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lgw ↔ Naples96633.3% of 966 movements1.2% of 966 movements1.2% of 966 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lhr ↔ Naples71434.7% of 714 movements0.1% of 714 movements0.4% of 714 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lpl ↔ Naplessuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Ltn ↔ Naples42142.0% of 421 movements0.5% of 421 movements0.7% of 421 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ncl ↔ Naples5064.0% of 50 movementsno events in 50 movementsno events in 50 movementsdescriptive comparison
Sen ↔ Naplessuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Stn ↔ Naples58642.3% of 586 movements0.3% of 586 movements0.3% of 586 movementsdescriptive comparison

Does the direction you are flying change anything?

Yes: arrivals into MAN ran 53.2% of 585 movements disrupted, departures 40.0% of 587 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 MAN53.2% of 585 movements0.2% of 585 movements1.0% of 585 movements
Departures from MAN40.0% of 587 movementsno events in 587 movements0.2% of 587 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 202643 flights out of 3,00443 × £350 = £15,050
ArrivalsLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 202637 flights out of 2,23137 × £350 = £12,950
DeparturesWhole archive · Jan 2018–Jun 202617 flights out of 3,01217 × £350 = £5,950
DeparturesLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 202612 flights out of 2,23812 × £350 = £4,200
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 / countryNAPLES / ITALY
Final point codesNAP / LIRN
Great-circle distance1,860 km
Maximum statutory amount for the band£350
Average operated arrivals per day1.60
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 archive95

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: 585; excluded by quarantine: 0.

Quick answers

How often is this route disrupted?

53.2% of 585 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 585 movements in the same window.

How many delays crossed three hours?

1.0% of 585 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?

1,860 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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