UK FLIGHT DELAY INDEX

derived from CAA punctuality statistics for UK reporting airports

How often are these flights late or cancelled?

STN ↔ FARO

In the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026, 21.7% of 1,244 movements arriving into STN were disrupted — that is, they landed more than fifteen minutes late or were cancelled at short notice.

Put the other way round, 78.3% of 1,244 movements arrived on time by the industry's fifteen-minute standard. Severe delays were rarer: about one arrival in every 178 crossed the three-hour mark. Lower is better on every figure on this page. These numbers describe what happened on the route; they are not a prediction for any individual flight.

Definitions, denominators and limits
  • “Disrupted” means an arrival more than fifteen minutes late or a short-notice cancellation. The denominator is operated movements plus short-notice cancellations.
  • Arrivals into the UK airport only; all published carriers.
  • Crossing three hours is one condition for compensation, but monthly data cannot establish any individual passenger’s rights.
  • Delay cause is not published in the open data.
  • Source: CAA punctuality statistics · snapshot 17/08/2026 10:24 · method route-record-v2.1.

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

The four numbers at a glance

In the twelve months from July 2025 to June 2026, 21.7% of 1,244 movements were disrupted and 0.3% of 1,244 movements were cancelled at short notice.

When a flight was late, it was typically late by the range shown below. The delay is given as a range, not a single number, because the regulator rounds its published percentages and never says how many flights landed exactly on time.

Disruption shareShort-notice cancellationsAverage delay among delayed flights only — boundsOperations
21.7% of 1,244 movements0.3% of 1,244 movements26.2–61.7 min; N of delayed flights=266–5781,244
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 1,244 movements. “One in N” means how many arrivals you would typically see between events at that level.

Delay threshold ladder; count and share of known operations15 min21.4%30 min11.9%60 min5.5%120 min1.5%180 min0.6%360 min0.0%
Delay ladder table: share, movements and one-in-N
DelayShare and nMovementsOne delay in every N operations
>15 min21.4% of 1,244 movements2664.7
>30 min11.9% of 1,244 movements1488.4
>60 min5.5% of 1,244 movements6818.3
>120 min1.5% of 1,244 movements1965.5
>180 min0.6% of 1,244 movements7177.7
>360 minno events in 1,244 movements0no observed events, which is not zero risk
Definitions, denominators and limits

CAA counts delays strictly greater than each threshold, so exactly three hours is inseparable from the previous bucket. The ladder describes the archive, not a forecast.

Slightly late, or occasionally a disaster?

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 early22718.2%15–1 early43535.0%0–15 late31225.1%16–301189.5%31–60806.4%61…120493.9%121…180121.0%181…36070.6%>36000.0%D=1,244
Definitions, denominators and limits

Ratio of the long tail to sixteen-to-sixty-minute delays: 0.0354; 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: Sep 2020, 3.7% of 82 movements. Worst month: Aug 2018, 44.4% of 142 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: 17.6%; sample: 342018Feb 2018: 8.6%; sample: 35Mar 2018: 24.1%; sample: 58Apr 2018: 32.1%; sample: 106May 2018: 39.5%; sample: 114Jun 2018: 38.7%; sample: 111Jul 2018: 42.4%; sample: 118Aug 2018: 44.4%; sample: 142Sep 2018: 30.9%; sample: 139Oct 2018: 37.0%; sample: 119Nov 2018: 18.0%; sample: 50Dec 2018: 17.5%; sample: 40Jan 2019: 12.2%; sample: 412019Feb 2019: 5.0%; sample: 40Mar 2019: 15.1%; sample: 53Apr 2019: 29.3%; sample: 99May 2019: 30.3%; sample: 122Jun 2019: 23.3%; sample: 133Jul 2019: 19.7%; sample: 157Aug 2019: 20.0%; sample: 160Sep 2019: 27.1%; sample: 155Oct 2019: 19.0%; sample: 121Nov 2019: 6.5%; sample: 46Dec 2019: 16.3%; sample: 43Jan 2020: 9.3%; sample: 432020Feb 2020: 23.4%; sample: 47Mar 2020: 20.0%; sample: 40Apr 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×May 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jun 2020: suppressed: fewer than twenty movements×Jul 2020: 3.2%; sample: 31Aug 2020: 10.0%; sample: 70Sep 2020: 3.7%; sample: 82Oct 2020: 7.5%; sample: 53Nov 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: 7.0%; sample: 43Jun 2021: 9.1%; sample: 99Jul 2021: 4.3%; sample: 92Aug 2021: 6.9%; sample: 116Sep 2021: 10.0%; sample: 120Oct 2021: 18.6%; sample: 118Nov 2021: 20.5%; sample: 39Dec 2021: 8.5%; sample: 47Jan 2022: 2.8%; sample: 362022Feb 2022: 31.0%; sample: 42Mar 2022: 8.2%; sample: 61Apr 2022: 29.7%; sample: 118May 2022: 28.5%; sample: 123Jun 2022: 30.5%; sample: 128Jul 2022: 21.6%; sample: 134Aug 2022: 19.5%; sample: 133Sep 2022: 35.4%; sample: 127Oct 2022: 28.6%; sample: 133Nov 2022: 12.5%; sample: 56Dec 2022: 27.8%; sample: 54Jan 2023: 11.3%; sample: 532023Feb 2023: 6.0%; sample: 50Mar 2023: 40.3%; sample: 67Apr 2023: 35.2%; sample: 122May 2023: 23.7%; sample: 131Jun 2023: 28.9%; sample: 128Jul 2023: 22.1%; sample: 145Aug 2023: 35.5%; sample: 155Sep 2023: 20.6%; sample: 141Oct 2023: 29.8%; sample: 131Nov 2023: 29.7%; sample: 74Dec 2023: 29.0%; sample: 69Jan 2024: 15.4%; sample: 652024Feb 2024: 25.0%; sample: 64Mar 2024: 20.7%; sample: 82Apr 2024: 18.5%; sample: 108May 2024: 23.3%; sample: 116Jun 2024: 29.4%; sample: 119Jul 2024: 24.2%; sample: 128Aug 2024: 16.1%; sample: 137Sep 2024: 27.6%; sample: 123Oct 2024: 15.8%; sample: 120Nov 2024: 16.4%; sample: 67Dec 2024: 28.8%; sample: 66Jan 2025: 29.4%; sample: 512025Feb 2025: 12.5%; sample: 64Mar 2025: 16.1%; sample: 87Apr 2025: 19.0%; sample: 116May 2025: 23.6%; sample: 123Jun 2025: 32.0%; sample: 125Jul 2025: 32.8%; sample: 134Aug 2025: 25.4%; sample: 134Sep 2025: 34.9%; sample: 129Oct 2025: 21.1%; sample: 123Nov 2025: 8.2%; sample: 73Dec 2025: 14.3%; sample: 63Jan 2026: 20.9%; sample: 432026Feb 2026: 10.9%; sample: 64Mar 2026: 18.7%; sample: 91Apr 2026: 12.7%; sample: 126May 2026: 15.0%; sample: 133Jun 2026: 28.2%; sample: 131Pandemic 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 201817.6% of 34 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 20188.6% of 35 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 201824.1% of 58 movements
Apr 201832.1% of 106 movements
May 201839.5% of 114 movements
Jun 201838.7% of 111 movements
Jul 201842.4% of 118 movements
Aug 201844.4% of 142 movements
Sep 201830.9% of 139 movements
Oct 201837.0% of 119 movements
Nov 201818.0% of 50 movements
Dec 201817.5% of 40 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 201912.2% of 41 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 20195.0% of 40 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 201915.1% of 53 movements
Apr 201929.3% of 99 movements
May 201930.3% of 122 movements
Jun 201923.3% of 133 movements
Jul 201919.7% of 157 movements
Aug 201920.0% of 160 movements
Sep 201927.1% of 155 movements
Oct 201919.0% of 121 movements
Nov 20196.5% of 46 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 201916.3% of 43 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 20209.3% of 43 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202023.4% of 47 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 202020.0% of 40 movements — small sample, not ranked
Apr 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
May 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jun 2020suppressed: fewer than twenty movements
Jul 20203.2% of 31 movements — small sample, not ranked
Aug 202010.0% of 70 movements
Sep 20203.7% of 82 movements
Oct 20207.5% of 53 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 20217.0% of 43 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jun 20219.1% of 99 movements
Jul 20214.3% of 92 movements
Aug 20216.9% of 116 movements
Sep 202110.0% of 120 movements
Oct 202118.6% of 118 movements
Nov 202120.5% of 39 movements — small sample, not ranked
Dec 20218.5% of 47 movements — small sample, not ranked
Jan 20222.8% of 36 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202231.0% of 42 movements — small sample, not ranked
Mar 20228.2% of 61 movements
Apr 202229.7% of 118 movements
May 202228.5% of 123 movements
Jun 202230.5% of 128 movements
Jul 202221.6% of 134 movements
Aug 202219.5% of 133 movements
Sep 202235.4% of 127 movements
Oct 202228.6% of 133 movements
Nov 202212.5% of 56 movements
Dec 202227.8% of 54 movements
Jan 202311.3% of 53 movements
Feb 20236.0% of 50 movements
Mar 202340.3% of 67 movements
Apr 202335.2% of 122 movements
May 202323.7% of 131 movements
Jun 202328.9% of 128 movements
Jul 202322.1% of 145 movements
Aug 202335.5% of 155 movements
Sep 202320.6% of 141 movements
Oct 202329.8% of 131 movements
Nov 202329.7% of 74 movements
Dec 202329.0% of 69 movements
Jan 202415.4% of 65 movements
Feb 202425.0% of 64 movements
Mar 202420.7% of 82 movements
Apr 202418.5% of 108 movements
May 202423.3% of 116 movements
Jun 202429.4% of 119 movements
Jul 202424.2% of 128 movements
Aug 202416.1% of 137 movements
Sep 202427.6% of 123 movements
Oct 202415.8% of 120 movements
Nov 202416.4% of 67 movements
Dec 202428.8% of 66 movements
Jan 202529.4% of 51 movements
Feb 202512.5% of 64 movements
Mar 202516.1% of 87 movements
Apr 202519.0% of 116 movements
May 202523.6% of 123 movements
Jun 202532.0% of 125 movements
Jul 202532.8% of 134 movements
Aug 202525.4% of 134 movements
Sep 202534.9% of 129 movements
Oct 202521.1% of 123 movements
Nov 20258.2% of 73 movements
Dec 202514.3% of 63 movements
Jan 202620.9% of 43 movements — small sample, not ranked
Feb 202610.9% of 64 movements
Mar 202618.7% of 91 movements
Apr 202612.7% of 126 movements
May 202615.0% of 133 movements
Jun 202628.2% of 131 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 2022Arrivals21.6% of 134 movements16.6% across 1,040 flightsreturned after 4 months
Summer 2022 breakdown · Jul 2022Departures27.6% of 134 movements17.9% across 1,036 flightsstill above it 8 months later
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Arrivals35.5% of 155 movements24.3% across 1,199 flightsreturned the next month
NATS system failure · Aug 2023Departures39.1% of 156 movements32.5% across 1,199 flightsreturned the next month
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Arrivals16.1% of 87 movements21.9% across 1,181 flightsreturned the next month
Heathrow fire closure · Mar 2025Departures29.9% of 87 movements35.9% across 1,180 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?

June has historically been the hardest month on this route: in a typical June, 29.4% of arrivals were disrupted, measured across 7 Junes in the archive. February has been the calmest, at 10.9% across 7 Februarys.

Even June has ranged from 23.3% to 38.7% 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 nJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec201912.2% of 41 movements †5.0% of 40 movements †15.1% of 53 movements29.3% of 99 movements30.3% of 122 movements23.3% of 133 movements19.7% of 157 movements20.0% of 160 movements27.1% of 155 movements19.0% of 121 movements6.5% of 46 movements †16.3% of 43 movements †20209.3% of 43 movements †23.4% of 47 movements †20.0% of 40 movements †suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements3.2% of 31 movements †10.0% of 70 movements3.7% of 82 movements7.5% of 53 movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movements2021suppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementsno data7.0% of 43 movements †9.1% of 99 movements4.3% of 92 movements6.9% of 116 movements10.0% of 120 movements18.6% of 118 movements20.5% of 39 movements †8.5% of 47 movements †20222.8% of 36 movements †31.0% of 42 movements †8.2% of 61 movements29.7% of 118 movements28.5% of 123 movements30.5% of 128 movements21.6% of 134 movements19.5% of 133 movements35.4% of 127 movements28.6% of 133 movements12.5% of 56 movements27.8% of 54 movements202311.3% of 53 movements6.0% of 50 movements40.3% of 67 movements35.2% of 122 movements23.7% of 131 movements28.9% of 128 movements22.1% of 145 movements35.5% of 155 movements20.6% of 141 movements29.8% of 131 movements29.7% of 74 movements29.0% of 69 movements202415.4% of 65 movements25.0% of 64 movements20.7% of 82 movements18.5% of 108 movements23.3% of 116 movements29.4% of 119 movements24.2% of 128 movements16.1% of 137 movements27.6% of 123 movements15.8% of 120 movements16.4% of 67 movements28.8% of 66 movements202529.4% of 51 movements12.5% of 64 movements16.1% of 87 movements19.0% of 116 movements23.6% of 123 movements32.0% of 125 movements32.8% of 134 movements25.4% of 134 movements34.9% of 129 movements21.1% of 123 movements8.2% of 73 movements14.3% of 63 movements202620.9% of 43 movements †10.9% of 64 movements18.7% of 91 movements12.7% of 126 movements15.0% of 133 movements28.2% of 131 movementsno datano datano datano datano datano data
Month-by-month table: median, observed range and sample
MonthMedianObserved rangeSample
Jan15.4%2.8–29.4%7 months, 323 flights
Feb10.9%5.0–31.0%7 months, 359 flights
Mar18.7%8.2–40.3%7 months, 499 flights
Apr29.3%12.7–35.2%7 months, 795 flights
May23.7%15.0–39.5%7 months, 862 flights
Jun29.4%23.3–38.7%7 months, 875 flights
Jul23.1%19.7–42.4%6 months, 816 flights
Aug22.7%16.1–44.4%6 months, 861 flights
Sep29.3%20.6–35.4%6 months, 814 flights
Oct24.9%15.8–37.0%6 months, 747 flights
Nov14.5%6.5–29.7%6 months, 366 flights
Dec22.6%14.3–29.0%6 months, 335 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: Jet2.Com 17.8% of 297 movements, Ryanair 22.4% of 899 movements, Ryanair Uk 34.8% of 46 movements — small sample, not ranked. The gap between them sits inside sampling noise.

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

Observed disruption share by optionJet2.Com17.8% of 297 flightsRyanair22.4% of 899 flightsRyanair Uk †34.8% of 46 flights
Airline comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
AirlineOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Ba Cityflyersuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
British Airwayssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Easyjet Airlinesuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Easyjet Uksuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Enter Airsuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Jet2.Com29717.8% of 297 movementsno events in 297 movements1.0% of 297 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ryanair89922.4% of 899 movements0.4% of 899 movements0.3% of 899 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ryanair Uk4634.8% of 46 movements — small sample, not rankedno events in 46 movements — small sample, not ranked2.2% of 46 movements — small sample, not rankedsmall sample; not ranked
Titan Airwayssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Transaviasuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Tui Airwayssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Vueling Airlinessuppressed: 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, CWL had the lowest disruption share at 4.8% of 84 movements and MAN the highest at 30.2% of 1,368 movements. This route sits at 21.7% of 1,244 movements.

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

Observed disruption share by optionAbz ↔ Faro5.5% of 91 flightsBfs ↔ Faro11.9% of 798 flightsBhx ↔ Faro16.4% of 877 flightsBoh ↔ Faro12.6% of 317 flightsBrs ↔ Faro20.0% of 1,192 flightsCwl ↔ Faro4.8% of 84 flightsEdi ↔ Faro19.1% of 476 flightsEma ↔ Faro15.3% of 653 flights
Airport comparison table: operations, cancellations, three-hour delays and data quality
Other UK airport to the same cityOperationsDisruptionCancellations>180 minData quality
Abz ↔ Faro915.5% of 91 movements1.1% of 91 movementsno events in 91 movementsdescriptive comparison
Bfs ↔ Faro79811.9% of 798 movements0.3% of 798 movements0.1% of 798 movementsdescriptive comparison
Bhd ↔ Farosuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Bhx ↔ Faro87716.4% of 877 movements0.1% of 877 movements0.3% of 877 movementsdescriptive comparison
Boh ↔ Faro31712.6% of 317 movementsno events in 317 movements0.3% of 317 movementsdescriptive comparison
Brs ↔ Faro1,19220.0% of 1,192 movements0.8% of 1,192 movements0.4% of 1,192 movementsdescriptive comparison
Cwl ↔ Faro844.8% of 84 movementsno events in 84 movements1.2% of 84 movementsdescriptive comparison
Doncaster-Sheffield ↔ Farosuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Edi ↔ Faro47619.1% of 476 movementsno events in 476 movementsno events in 476 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ema ↔ Faro65315.3% of 653 movements0.2% of 653 movementsno events in 653 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ext ↔ Faro595.1% of 59 movementsno events in 59 movementsno events in 59 movementsdescriptive comparison
Gla ↔ Faro48113.5% of 481 movements1.0% of 481 movements0.6% of 481 movementsdescriptive comparison
Iom ↔ Farosuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Jer ↔ Farosuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed: fewer than twenty movementssuppressed
Lba ↔ Faro64720.9% of 647 movements0.8% of 647 movements0.8% of 647 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lcy ↔ Faro10615.1% of 106 movements0.9% of 106 movementsno events in 106 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lgw ↔ Faro2,65527.3% of 2,655 movements1.0% of 2,655 movements0.6% of 2,655 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lhr ↔ Faro52719.7% of 527 movements0.8% of 527 movementsno events in 527 movementsdescriptive comparison
Lpl ↔ Faro76511.5% of 765 movements0.7% of 765 movements0.1% of 765 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ltn ↔ Faro1,16227.9% of 1,162 movements0.4% of 1,162 movements0.3% of 1,162 movementsdescriptive comparison
Man ↔ Faro1,36830.2% of 1,368 movements0.6% of 1,368 movements0.6% of 1,368 movementsdescriptive comparison
Mme ↔ Faro6116.4% of 61 movementsno events in 61 movementsno events in 61 movementsdescriptive comparison
Ncl ↔ Faro48512.2% of 485 movementsno events in 485 movementsno events in 485 movementsdescriptive comparison
Sen ↔ Faro14319.6% of 143 movementsno events in 143 movementsno events in 143 movementsdescriptive comparison
Sou ↔ Faro5115.7% of 51 movements2.0% of 51 movements2.0% of 51 movementsdescriptive comparison

Does the direction you are flying change anything?

Barely: arrivals into STN ran 21.7% of 1,244 movements disrupted, departures 24.3% of 1,234 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 STN21.7% of 1,244 movements0.3% of 1,244 movements0.6% of 1,244 movements
Departures from STN24.3% of 1,234 movementsno events in 1,234 movements0.2% of 1,234 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 202652 flights out of 8,73752 × £350 = £18,200
ArrivalsLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 202634 flights out of 6,36734 × £350 = £11,900
DeparturesWhole archive · Jan 2018–Jun 202631 flights out of 8,70831 × £350 = £10,850
DeparturesLast 72 months · Jul 2020–Jun 202622 flights out of 6,35122 × £350 = £7,700
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 airportSTANSTED · STN
Final point / countryFARO / PORTUGAL(EXCLUDING MADEIRA)
Final point codesFAO / LPFR
Great-circle distance1,774 km
Maximum statutory amount for the band£350
Average operated arrivals per day3.40
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 archive97

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

What this data cannot tell you

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

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

Data-quality counters for this route

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

Unmatched records: 0; all recorded operations: 1,244; excluded by quarantine: 0.

Quick answers

How often is this route disrupted?

21.7% of 1,244 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 1,244 movements in the same window.

How many delays crossed three hours?

0.6% of 1,244 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?

1,774 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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