These pages show punctuality and delay statistics for charter flights at UK reporting airports. Data is available for the current year to date and for previous years back to 2002.

You can view specific data for several UK charter airlines, or view charter airline delays at airport level, by selecting a page from the appropriate menu to the right.

NEW! Our special summer 2007 page at flightontime.info/summer2007 now contains a full season punctuality breakdown and analysis.

Summary information on charter delays at UK airports by season is provided below.

The summer 2007 season saw an almost static delay profile for all eight major UK charter airlines compared with the previous two years, despite our hopes for an overall improvement in timekeeping, the average delay remaining at around 26 minutes and on-time performance at 68%, with 1 in 10 charter flights delayed by over an hour.

As with every season however there have been some improvements in timekeeping and airlines who deserve special mention for their punctual service during summer 2007.

MyTravel Airways and Thomsonfly top the league table this year, standing well clear of other charter airlines and demonstrating good timekeeping only separated by a small margin in terms of average delay. In the case of MyTravel in particular, this is the second consecutive summer season leading the league table of UK charter airlines, and also follows their excellent performance during the past two winter seasons.

Punctuality of the eight UK charter airlines during the winter 2006 / 2007 season remained broadly similar to both the winter 2004 / 2005 and 2005 / 06 seasons, with the average flight around 27 minutes late, 67% on-time performance and 1 in 10 flights delayed by over an hour.

First Choice Airways were the most punctual carrier for the season, recording an average delay of 19.79 minutes, a very small advantage of 0.01 minutes (0.6 seconds) average delay over MyTravel Airways whose flights recorded a 19.80 minute average delay.

Both these carriers had good overall punctuality, with MyTravel Airways having the on-time performance advantage at 81.6%, a level not seen duing a winter season for four years.

Thomsonfly were in third position for the season, reducing their average delay by over 15% compared with the same period during the previous year. The airline also significantly reduced the proportion of flights operating over an hour late from 9.5% to 6.8% year-on-year, a reduction of nearly 30%.

Thomas Cook Airlines were in fourth position with a close to average performance, though with an average delay of 28 minutes this represents the worst winter season on record for the airline.

At the bottom of the table poor punctuality was seen for Astraeus, Monarch Airlines and XL Airways, all three carriers struggling to operate many more than half of their charter flights on-time during the season. Punctuality dropped for all three of these carriers year-on-year, with average delays of 44 to 49 minutes among the worst ever recorded for charter airlines over any winter season analysed to date. For these carriers, between 1 in 5 and 1 in 6 flights operated over an hour behind schedule, more than double the level seen for the carriers with the best performance.