These pages show punctuality and delay statistics for charter flights operated at London Luton airport. 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.
You can view data for several other UK airports, or view charter delays for specific airlines, by selecting a different page from the appropriate menu to the right.
Punctuality data is also available for scheduled flights at London Luton |
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Luton Charter Flights
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All UK Charter Flights
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Jan '05 -
Dec '05
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Jan '04 -
Dec '04
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Jan '05 -
Dec '05
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Jan '04 -
Dec '04
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| Average Delay (mins)
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18.11
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16.70
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27.48
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23.28
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| Within 15 mins (%)
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73.82
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76.35
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67.15
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70.28
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| 1 hour+ late (%)
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6.41
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6.56
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10.79
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9.25
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| 3 hours+ late (%)
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1.64
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1.40
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2.78
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2.18
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| Total Flights Analysed
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3,851
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4,494
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129,035
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137,158
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Charter flight delays at London Luton during 2005 increased slightly compared with 2004 in all delay categories, except delays in excess of 1 hour which showed a slight reduction.
This increase in delays was consistent with the general pattern seen at all UK reporting airports during 2005, and charter flight punctuality at Luton remained much better than the UK average.
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Note: A small number of flights by Flyjet (14), Astraeus (4), Excel Airways (4) and MyTravel Airways (3) were not analysed.
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Airline
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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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| 1
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Thomas Cook Airlines
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10.42
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69.44
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0.00
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0.00
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36
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| 2
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First Choice Airways
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11.50
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83.45
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2.28
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0.86
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701
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Thomsonfly
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18.24
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76.85
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6.42
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2.21
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1,853
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| 4
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Monarch Airlines
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38.41
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48.78
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15.61
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2.93
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205
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| ALL 4 AIRLINES > > >
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17.93
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76.35
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5.97
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1.90
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2,795
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Thomas Cook Airlines had the best punctuality at London Luton over the summer 2005 season, though this was based on a small sample of flights.
First Choice Airways had good punctuality and a high on-time performance of 84%.
Thomsonfly had close to average timekeeping at the airport while Monarch Airlines charter flights had the worst timekeeping at the airport, the average delay recorded at close to 40 minutes.
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Note: A small number of flights by Monarch Airlines (11), Thomas Cook Airlines (7), Astraeus (4), Excel Airways (4), MyTravel Aiways (2) and Flyjet (1) were not analysed.
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Airline
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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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| 1
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First Choice Airways
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8.70
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80.42
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1.06
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0.00
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189
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| 2
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Britannia Airways
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13.08
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78.83
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5.29
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0.55
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548
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| ALL 3 AIRLINES > > >
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11.96
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79.24
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4.21
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0.41
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737
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First Choice Airways and Britannia Airways were the only major operators of charter flights at Luton over the winter 2004 / 2005 season, both with very good punctuality demonstrated.
First Choice had the better performance with a much lower proportion of longer delays resulting in a low average flight delay of less than 9 minutes.
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