These pages show punctuality and delay statistics for Thomas Cook Airlines charter flights at UK reporting airports. Data is available for the current year to date and for previous years back to 2002. Simply select which year you are interested in below.
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Thomas Cook Charter Flights
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All UK Charter Flights
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Jan '07 -
Dec '07
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Jan '06 -
Dec '06
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Jan '07 -
Dec '07
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Jan '06 -
Dec '06
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| Average Delay (mins)
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30.22
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22.32
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26.86
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27.22
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| Within 15 mins (%)
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61.81
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69.74
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65.98
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66.77
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| 1 hour+ late (%)
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13.19
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9.08
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10.60
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10.63
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| 3 hours+ late (%)
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3.07
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2.01
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2.53
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2.70
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| Total Flights Analysed
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20,126
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20,293
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119,024
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127,170
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The punctuality of Thomas Cook charter flights declined during 2007 compared with 2006, the average delay increasing by around a third from 22 minutes to 30 minutes. On-time performance fell from 70% to 62%.
Thomas Cook punctuality was slightly poorer than the UK charter average during 2007, having been better than average in 2006.
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Note: A small number of flights to and from Edinburgh (2) were not analysed.
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Airport
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Avg. Delay
(mins)
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Within 15
mins (%)
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1 hour+
late (%)
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late (%)
| Total Flights
analysed
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London Stansted
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17.21
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66.71
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7.07
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0.48
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835
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London Luton
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22.32
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58.82
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5.88
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0.00
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34
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Birmingham
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22.71
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70.72
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10.31
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1.76
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1,766
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London Gatwick
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28.32
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63.81
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12.07
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3.16
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4,689
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| 5
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Newcastle
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31.99
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62.51
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13.43
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3.16
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1,742
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| 6
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Glasgow
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32.05
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55.13
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16.03
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2.66
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1,765
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| 7
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Manchester
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40.15
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55.98
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18.49
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4.70
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4,677
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| ALL AIRPORTS > > >
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31.48
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61.25
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14.13
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3.26
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15,508
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The average Thomas Cook charter flight was delayed by 31 minutes over the summer 2007 season, with 61% on-time performance.
This represents the poorest summer season performance for the airline since 2001, and a significant drop in timekeeping compared with the summer 2006 season when the airline was awarded as runner-up for punctuality.
Punctuality was better at London Stansted, London Luton, Birmingham and London Gatwick, but poor at Manchester in particular where the airline operated a large proportion of charter flights over the season to date and only 56% on-time performance was achieved.
At Manchester nearly 1 in 5 Thomas Cook charter flights operated over an hour late.
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Note: A small number of flights to and from London Luton (8) and Edinburgh (2) were not analysed.
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Airport
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Avg. Delay
(mins)
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Within 15
mins (%)
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1 hour+
late (%)
| 3 hours+
late (%)
| Total Flights
analysed
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Newcastle
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17.37
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78.39
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3.66
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1.47
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273
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London Stansted
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19.70
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68.33
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10.83
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1.67
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120
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Birmingham
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20.13
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78.20
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6.77
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2.51
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399
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Glasgow
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22.02
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72.37
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6.02
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1.69
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532
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Manchester
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26.35
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66.81
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10.77
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2.97
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1,681
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London Gatwick
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34.34
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53.74
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14.57
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3.48
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1,723
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| ALL AIRPORTS > > >
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27.56
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64.34
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10.87
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2.86
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4,728
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Thomas Cook charter flights at Newcastle had the best punctuality for the airline during the winter 2006 / 07 season with an average delay of 17 minutes and 78% on-time performance.
Flights at other airports had longer delays, in particular Manchester and London Gatwick where average delays were 26 minutes and 34 minutes respectively.
At Gatwick, only around half of all Thomas Cook charter flights operated on-time during the season, the worst performance seen for the carrier at Gatwick since we began analysing records in 2002.
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