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This section shows punctuality and delay statistics for scheduled flights as measured at 25 UK Reporting Airports.

A range of specific route-level data is available for several scheduled airlines at these UK reporting airports, and this information can be accessed by selecting a page from the appropriate menu to the right.

Airport-level data is also available for scheduled flights featuring a delay 'league table' for each UK reporting airport by airline, by selecting an airport from the appropriate menu to the right.

The table below shows a league table of scheduled airline delays for the 40 largest operators at 25 UK reporting airports.

Recent summary statistics for UK & Ireland scheduled airline punctuality during the latest month or year to date for which data is available can be found on our Latest OTP page.

   
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Full Year
    Average Delay (mins.) Within 15 mins (%) > 1 hour late (%) 2017
Jan-Mar Flights Analysed
(Sample %)
  2017
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Aer Lingus (in detail) 1st 8.7 10.1 8.7 6.3 83.5 80.1 82.4 87.6 2.7 3.3 2.6 2.1 6,136 (100%)
Scandinavian SAS (in detail) 2nd 8.1 8.4 9.5 7.4 84.5 83.6 81.4 84.8 2.5 2.5 2.9 2.2 4,871 (100%)
Aer Lingus Regional (in detail) 3rd 8.7 11.5 10.3 8.3 85.9 81.7 80.6 85.2 3.2 4.1 3.0 2.5 5,137 (98%)
Alitalia 4th 9.4 12.3 12.3 8.4 81.7 75.4 75.9 83.9 3.2 4.2 4.1 2.4 1,742 (100%)
Iberia 5th 8.5 9.2 11.1 8.6 83.7 81.1 78.5 83.2 2.7 2.1 3.6 2.8 1,464 (100%)
Qatar Airways 6th 13.4 8.4 7.4 9.1 73.5 83.2 85.7 85.0 4.0 2.0 1.3 2.8 1,849 (100%)
Lufthansa (in detail) 7th 9.2 10.2 10.0 9.4 81.1 78.0 79.6 80.6 2.0 2.2 2.3 2.4 6,857 (100%)
Air France 8th 7.9 8.7 10.1 10.2 83.3 82.2 78.7 77.5 1.8 1.8 2.5 2.3 2,196 (100%)
Brussels Airlines 9th 12.8 13.1 14.1 10.2 72.2 71.7 71.3 79.6 3.3 3.3 3.8 2.9 2,367 (100%)
British Airways (in detail) 10th 13.8 14.0 14.7 10.4 75.7 74.3 74.3 81.9 4.6 4.6 5.1 3.1 66,427 (100%)
Germanwings / Eurowings 11th 11.3 14.0 15.4 11.0 79.3 72.5 70.6 79.4 3.7 4.6 5.5 3.6 5,116 (100%)
KLM (in detail) 12th 6.8 8.4 7.8 11.0 87.6 85.9 86.5 80.2 1.6 2.5 1.9 4.0 8,756 (90%)
Finnair 13th 8.2 8.8 9.6 11.0 83.2 81.1 79.6 75.4 1.8 1.7 2.2 3.1 1,258 (100%)
Turkish Airlines 14th 12.2 15.2 14.0 11.1 74.6 67.6 71.1 79.4 3.1 4.0 3.3 3.0 2,100 (100%)
flybe (in detail) 15th 10.4 11.2 12.6 11.4 82.1 81.5 79.7 81.9 3.7 4.6 5.1 4.8 34,736 (100%)
Etihad Airways 16th 20.8 20.2 12.7 12.0 60.1 59.8 76.5 77.2 6.7 6.5 0.0 0.0 1,030 (100%)
Jet2 (in detail) 17th 13.6 12.8 15.7 12.1 78.5 77.6 71.6 79.0 4.8 4.3 5.6 3.7 6,020 (100%)
Ryanair (in detail) 18th 11.2 11.1 13.5 12.2 79.2 79.9 74.8 77.8 2.7 2.9 4.0 3.7 54,369 (98%)
Swiss Airlines (in detail) 19th 9.5 11.3 12.0 12.2 79.8 76.1 75.1 73.3 2.6 3.0 3.2 3.4 4,308 (100%)
Virgin Atlantic (in detail) 20th 10.0 12.5 12.1 12.2 82.2 79.3 78.3 78.9 3.5 4.8 4.4 3.6 4,787 (100%)
Monarch Airlines (in detail) 21st 15.6 11.4 14.6 12.6 76.1 79.8 72.9 77.0 5.9 3.3 4.6 4.0 5,929 (100%)
BA CityFlyer (in detail) 22nd 6.9 8.2 13.8 12.8 88.6 84.6 75.1 76.9 2.6 2.8 5.6 5.5 7,858 (100%)
Loganair (in detail) 23rd 12.2 19.4 15.0 14.0 82.7 74.4 78.5 81.0 5.5 9.9 7.3 7.2 6,521 (100%)
Delta Air Lines (in detail) 24th 10.3 10.4 11.0 14.0 83.2 85.4 83.7 82.0 4.0 3.9 4.1 4.6 1,807 (100%)
United Airlines (in detail) 25th 14.4 14.4 16.3 14.3 78.7 80.7 78.8 80.3 6.4 6.6 7.5 6.1 3,463 (100%)
Emirates 26th 14.7 15.4 15.3 14.3 67.9 66.6 69.1 70.1 3.6 4.4 0.0 0.0 3,241 (100%)
Wizz Air (in detail) 27th 13.6 14.8 16.6 14.5 75.5 71.6 69.1 72.1 4.1 4.5 6.1 5.2 8,904 (100%)
easyJet (in detail) 28th 12.2 15.6 20.0 14.9 78.3 71.6 65.0 73.5 4.2 6.1 8.7 5.8 63,775 (100%)
Eastern Airways (in detail) 29th 12.3 13.7 18.5 15.5 82.2 80.6 74.3 78.1 5.7 5.5 8.3 7.5 3,846 (93%)
CityJet (in detail) 30th 7.5 11.8 16.2 15.6 87.5 78.7 71.4 75.7 2.7 4.3 6.5 7.5 4,219 (100%)
TAP Air Portugal 31st 18.5 12.8 17.7 16.3 65.3 73.8 67.2 71.5 8.0 3.8 6.5 6.7 1,767 (100%)
bmi Regional (in detail) 32nd 7.7 9.5 17.0 16.5 87.4 84.6 74.5 71.7 2.2 3.1 7.4 7.6 3,212 (100%)
Blue Islands 33rd 9.9 21.1 13.2 16.5 84.7 79.6 79.9 79.7 5.5 4.9 5.8 6.8 2,157 (100%)
American Airlines (in detail) 34th 17.4 18.7 21.1 16.5 76.0 75.2 73.2 77.7 7.2 8.4 9.9 6.2 3,104 (100%)
Thomson Airways (in detail) 35th 15.9 15.9 18.1 17.5 73.9 71.9 68.2 69.0 5.1 5.1 5.9 5.8 8,097 (100%)
Thomas Cook Airlines (in detail) 36th 17.5 16.2 16.7 17.6 77.0 76.4 71.0 69.4 7.4 6.2 5.8 6.6 3,578 (100%)
Vueling Airlines 37th 18.2 22.4 25.7 17.7 66.4 61.7 59.0 70.9 5.8 8.2 10.8 7.1 3,484 (100%)
Norwegian Air Shuttle (in detail) 38th 11.6 16.5 25.5 18.8 79.5 70.7 56.9 64.8 3.3 5.3 10.6 7.1 7,053 (100%)
Air Canada 39th 19.6 17.0 16.2 19.5 71.1 72.1 70.1 70.7 6.0 5.6 5.4 7.0 1,527 (100%)
Aurigny 40th 12.1 16.6 16.8 20.0 82.2 78.2 76.6 74.9 4.4 6.6 6.9 7.6 2,076 (71%)
2017 Ranking by Jan-Mar average delay (ascending). Analysis includes arrivals and departures at UK reporting airports.
Sample %: Proportion of flights analysed at 25 UK Reporting Airports compared with total flights at all UK airports for each airline.
Note that for pre-2015 statistics, data was gathered at 10 UK Reporting Airports and may not be directly comparable.

 


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