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These pages show punctuality and delay statistics for British Airways scheduled flights at UK reporting airports.

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British Airways was the most punctual airline at:

London City (click here for details)

British Airways was the most punctual scheduled carrier between:

London and Manchester (out of 2 airlines, click here for details)
London and Milan (out of 6 airlines, click here for details)
London and Munich (out of 4 airlines, click here for details)
London and Copenhagen (out of 5 airlines, click here for details)
London and Barcelona (out of 5 airlines, click here for details)
London and Dusseldorf (out of 6 airlines, click here for details)
London and Nice (out of 4 airlines, click here for details)
London and Brussels (out of 2 airlines, click here for details)
London and New York (out of 6 airlines, click here for details)
London and Toronto (out of 4 airlines, click here for details)
London and Houston (out of 2 airlines, click here for details)
London and Dallas (out of 2 airlines, click here for details)
London and Atlanta (out of 2 airlines, click here for details)
London and Orlando (out of 2 airlines, click here for details)
London and Philadelphia (out of 2 airlines, click here for details)
London and Calgary (out of 4 airlines, click here for details)
London and Tel Aviv (out of 4 airlines, click here for details)
London and Abu Dhabi (out of 2 airlines, click here for details)
London and Jeddah (out of 3 airlines, click here for details)
London and Muscat (out of 2 airlines, click here for details)
London and Kuwait (out of 2 airlines, click here for details)
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2011 Jan-Dec Sample

British Airways flights analysed here as a proportion of all British Airways UK flights

100.0%

(276,755 scheduled flights analysed at UK reporting airports out of 276,755 British Airways scheduled flights operating at all UK airports)

Punctuality Statistics for British Airways flights at UK reporting airports
(Jan-Dec 2011)

	Avg. Delay (mins)	Within 15 mins (%)	1 hour+ late (%)	3 hours+ late (%)	Total Flights analysed
London (City)	4.12	92.05	2.33	0.00	1,031
Newcastle	8.24	84.00	2.30	0.02	4,088
Manchester	9.29	80.45	2.42	0.04	8,385
Glasgow	10.37	80.30	3.05	0.21	8,255
Edinburgh	10.76	79.64	3.03	0.32	9,173
London (Heathrow)	10.77	79.91	3.14	0.35	203,519
London (Gatwick)	11.72	77.97	3.62	0.30	42,304
All British Airways Flights	10.79	79.74	3.17	0.32	276,755

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The following tables provide a breakdown of overall British Airways scheduled flight punctuality for each UK reporting airport listed above, at route level.

Punctuality Statistics for British Airways London City Airport flights at route level.
(Jan-Dec 2011)

Operated during months

Average
delay
(mins)

Operated
within 15
mins (%)

Over
1 hour
late (%)

Over
3 hours
late (%)

Total
flights
analysed

Route

London City to New York (JFK)

4.12

92.05

2.33

0.00

1,031

All London City Routes

4.12

92.05

2.33

0.00

1,031

Note: Data relates to arrivals and departures at London City
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Punctuality Statistics for British Airways Newcastle Airport flights at route level.
(Jan-Dec 2011)

Operated during months

Average
delay
(mins)

Operated
within 15
mins (%)

Over
1 hour
late (%)

Over
3 hours
late (%)

Total
flights
analysed

Route

Newcastle to London (Heathrow)

8.24

84.00

2.30

0.02

4,088

All Newcastle Routes

8.24

84.00

2.30

0.02

4,088

Note: Data relates to arrivals and departures at Newcastle
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Punctuality Statistics for British Airways Manchester Airport flights at route level.
(Jan-Dec 2011)

Operated during months

Average
delay
(mins)

Operated
within 15
mins (%)

Over
1 hour
late (%)

Over
3 hours
late (%)

Total
flights
analysed

Route

Manchester to London (Heathrow)

8.88

81.92

2.48

0.04

5,532

Manchester to London (Gatwick)

10.09

77.60

2.31

0.04

2,853

All Manchester Routes

9.29

80.45

2.42

0.04

8,385

Note: Data relates to arrivals and departures at Manchester
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Punctuality Statistics for British Airways Glasgow Airport flights at route level.
(Jan-Dec 2011)

Operated during months

Average
delay
(mins)

Operated
within 15
mins (%)

Over
1 hour
late (%)

Over
3 hours
late (%)

Total
flights
analysed

Route

Glasgow to London (Gatwick)

9.82

80.91

2.39

0.21

2,798

Glasgow to London (Heathrow)

10.65

79.99

3.39

0.20

5,457

All Glasgow Routes

10.37

80.30

3.05

0.21

8,255

Note: Data relates to arrivals and departures at Glasgow
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Punctuality Statistics for British Airways Edinburgh Airport flights at route level.
(Jan-Dec 2011)

Operated during months

Average
delay
(mins)

Operated
within 15
mins (%)

Over
1 hour
late (%)

Over
3 hours
late (%)

Total
flights
analysed

Route

Edinburgh to London (Heathrow)

10.36

80.14

2.87

0.30

6,303

Edinburgh to London (Gatwick)

11.63

78.54

3.38

0.35

2,870

All Edinburgh Routes

10.76

79.64

3.03

0.32

9,173

Note: Data relates to arrivals and departures at Edinburgh
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Punctuality Statistics for British Airways London Heathrow Airport flights at route level.
(Jan-Dec 2011)

	Operated during months												Average delay (mins)	Operated within 15 mins (%)	Over 1 hour late (%)	Over 3 hours late (%)	Total flights analysed
Route	J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D	Average delay (mins)	Operated within 15 mins (%)	Over 1 hour late (%)	Over 3 hours late (%)	Total flights analysed
Heathrow to Sofia													5.18	90.04	1.40	0.00	783
Heathrow to Tripoli													5.39	85.58	0.96	0.00	104
Heathrow to St Petersburg													5.42	89.56	1.37	0.27	728
Heathrow to Muscat / Abu Dhabi													6.33	87.95	1.51	0.14	730
Heathrow to Riyadh													6.39	86.47	1.23	0.18	569
Heathrow to Basle													6.42	87.62	2.21	0.00	2,125
Heathrow to Hamburg													6.54	87.64	1.74	0.20	2,936
Heathrow to Gothenburg													6.67	86.60	1.82	0.07	1,425
Heathrow to Milan (Malpensa)													6.95	86.21	2.33	0.05	2,059
Heathrow to Jeddah													7.12	86.08	1.37	0.39	510
Heathrow to Algiers													7.13	84.21	1.80	0.00	722
Heathrow to Copenhagen													7.16	86.39	2.10	0.15	3,908
Heathrow to Manchester													7.36	85.84	2.26	0.05	5,531
Heathrow to Budapest													7.41	85.26	2.09	0.19	2,158
Heathrow to Kiev (Borispol)													7.59	83.97	1.70	0.10	998
Heathrow to Warsaw													7.62	84.58	2.06	0.00	2,036
Heathrow to Lyon													7.74	84.26	2.81	0.00	2,167
Heathrow to Toulouse													7.75	84.92	1.85	0.23	2,168
Heathrow to Newcastle													7.83	84.34	2.25	0.02	4,088
Heathrow to Vienna													7.89	85.11	2.00	0.21	2,902
Heathrow to Dusseldorf													7.90	84.17	2.11	0.20	3,935
Heathrow to Prague													7.92	84.98	2.39	0.25	2,850
Heathrow to Milan (Linate)													7.92	83.62	1.92	0.11	3,798
Heathrow to Lisbon													7.93	83.01	1.69	0.12	2,601
Heathrow to Moscow (Domodedovo)													8.11	84.77	2.14	0.51	2,154
Heathrow to Kuwait													8.23	84.34	2.06	0.14	728
Heathrow to Berlin (Tegel)													8.28	83.79	2.51	0.20	3,912
Heathrow to Munich													8.30	82.99	2.31	0.13	4,591
Heathrow to Paris (Orly)													8.32	83.45	2.66	0.10	1,915
Heathrow to Stuttgart													8.33	85.64	2.30	0.37	1,609
Heathrow to Oslo (Gardermoen)													8.36	84.12	2.20	0.24	2,859
Heathrow to Aberdeen													8.43	83.03	2.18	0.15	4,537
Heathrow to Barcelona													8.55	82.41	2.28	0.05	5,658
Heathrow to Zurich													8.78	82.36	2.49	0.15	3,935
Heathrow to Brussels													9.04	82.21	2.62	0.25	4,041
Heathrow to Paris (CDG)													9.08	81.63	2.52	0.29	5,548
Heathrow to Edinburgh													9.10	82.24	2.48	0.25	6,302
Heathrow to Pisa													9.23	80.58	2.02	0.00	891
Heathrow to Geneva													9.31	80.61	2.47	0.12	5,756
Heathrow to Nice													9.34	80.65	2.62	0.11	4,614
Heathrow to Bucharest													9.62	79.64	2.35	0.21	1,449
Heathrow to Stockholm (Arlanda)													9.70	80.79	3.35	0.11	3,638
Heathrow to Glasgow													9.88	81.25	3.26	0.22	5,456
Heathrow to Istanbul													10.19	78.69	2.90	0.10	2,032
Heathrow to Amsterdam													10.34	80.88	3.24	0.20	5,393
Heathrow to Venice													10.56	80.68	3.51	0.38	797
Heathrow to Malaga													10.76	80.76	2.33	1.17	343
Heathrow to Rome (Fiumicino)													10.84	77.97	2.91	0.33	4,226
Heathrow to Helsinki													11.18	78.70	3.68	0.14	1,385
Heathrow to New York (Newark)													11.24	80.70	3.57	0.47	2,129
Heathrow to Tel Aviv													11.48	77.62	4.55	0.21	1,452
Heathrow to Boston													11.62	78.96	3.78	0.47	2,144
Heathrow to Baltimore													12.00	79.42	2.62	0.41	724
Heathrow to Gibraltar													12.14	83.29	4.46	1.67	718
Heathrow to Dubai													12.20	80.71	2.74	0.51	1,752
Heathrow to Frankfurt													12.31	74.66	3.55	0.19	4,822
Heathrow to Athens													12.36	78.73	4.92	0.32	2,482
Heathrow to Singapore													13.00	80.67	3.36	0.70	714
Heathrow to Atlanta													13.19	72.30	3.19	0.42	722
Heathrow to Houston													13.26	75.27	3.88	0.79	1,391
Heathrow to San Francisco													13.36	72.52	3.72	0.41	1,452
Heathrow to Calgary													13.69	79.50	5.36	0.14	727
Heathrow to Denver													13.74	71.02	3.02	0.41	728
Heathrow to Philadelphia													13.82	80.61	3.95	0.99	1,418
Heathrow to Bangalore													13.84	79.01	6.45	1.10	729
Heathrow to Sydney													14.09	76.34	3.98	0.35	1,433
Heathrow to Washington													14.11	74.08	4.54	0.51	2,157
Heathrow to Rio de Janeiro / Buenos Aries / Sao Paulo													14.20	73.96	3.92	0.43	1,632
Heathrow to Mumbai													14.38	74.09	5.71	0.56	1,436
Heathrow to Dar-Es-Salaam													14.40	76.01	6.36	0.87	346
Heathrow to Chicago (O'Hare)													14.42	76.32	4.31	0.69	1,440
Heathrow to New York (JFK)													14.65	73.56	5.12	0.65	4,944
Heathrow to Madrid													14.87	70.83	4.19	0.50	3,583
Heathrow to Luxembourg													14.95	73.91	4.67	0.61	985
Heathrow to Lagos													15.18	66.39	2.88	0.27	729
Heathrow to Dallas / Fort Worth													15.36	68.37	4.28	0.55	724
Heathrow to Bahrain / Doha													15.50	80.93	2.74	0.82	729
Heathrow to Cairo													15.74	75.81	3.25	0.85	707
Heathrow to Delhi													15.94	70.14	5.62	0.48	1,460
Heathrow to Abuja													15.95	71.23	4.25	0.55	730
Heathrow to Lusaka													16.08	68.39	5.81	0.65	310
Heathrow to Madras / Chennai													16.18	73.75	4.98	0.57	522
Heathrow to Luanda													16.19	80.10	2.99	1.00	201
Heathrow to Seattle													16.63	72.19	4.79	0.96	730
Heathrow to Hong Kong													16.90	84.17	4.66	1.44	1,459
Heathrow to Nairobi													16.93	65.75	4.66	0.68	730
Heathrow to Hyderabad													17.20	76.15	4.81	0.77	520
Heathrow to Montreal													17.25	65.62	4.25	0.41	730
Heathrow to Mauritius													17.88	64.09	6.18	1.16	259
Heathrow to Tokyo													17.98	65.46	5.35	0.80	747
Heathrow to Phoenix													18.21	62.86	5.31	0.48	622
Heathrow to Beijing													18.22	69.22	7.07	0.74	679
Heathrow to Johannesburg													18.29	76.29	4.19	1.31	1,455
Heathrow to Los Angeles													18.47	63.46	5.04	0.71	1,984
Heathrow to Larnaca													18.77	73.00	4.68	1.93	726
Heathrow to Accra													18.89	64.79	5.75	1.23	730
Heathrow to Miami													18.94	66.16	5.27	1.58	1,460
Heathrow to Tokyo (Haneda)													19.24	71.39	8.55	2.06	339
Heathrow to Toronto													19.31	63.44	5.91	1.10	1,455
Heathrow to Nassau / Grand Cayman / Providenciales													19.45	77.31	5.19	2.12	520
Heathrow to Shanghai													19.51	67.05	9.34	0.98	610
Heathrow to Cape Town													19.76	72.17	5.21	1.10	999
Heathrow to Vancouver													21.03	65.86	5.81	1.27	946
Heathrow to San Diego													22.97	66.67	6.86	0.95	423
Heathrow to Entebbe													24.22	61.54	7.50	0.77	520
Heathrow to Las Vegas													27.38	59.59	9.04	1.64	730
Heathrow to Mexico City													29.46	64.71	4.81	1.87	374
All Heathrow Routes													10.77	79.91	3.14	0.35	203,519

Note: Data relates to arrivals and departures at Heathrow
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Punctuality Statistics for British Airways London Gatwick Airport flights at route level.
(Jan-Dec 2011)

	Operated during months												Average delay (mins)	Operated within 15 mins (%)	Over 1 hour late (%)	Over 3 hours late (%)	Total flights analysed
Route	J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D	Average delay (mins)	Operated within 15 mins (%)	Over 1 hour late (%)	Over 3 hours late (%)	Total flights analysed
Gatwick to Cagliari													6.78	89.19	0.54	0.54	185
Gatwick to Dubrovnik													7.07	88.75	1.93	0.35	569
Gatwick to Bari													7.95	84.32	2.70	0.00	185
Gatwick to Bordeaux													8.02	85.00	1.93	0.00	1,453
Gatwick to Bridgetown / Greneda													8.04	88.23	2.25	0.41	977
Gatwick to Luxembourg													8.53	82.20	1.52	0.00	264
Gatwick to Manchester													8.56	81.66	2.14	0.04	2,851
Gatwick to Orlando													8.71	84.75	2.75	0.27	728
Gatwick to Salzburg													8.73	82.10	2.40	0.44	458
Gatwick to Geneva													9.21	78.50	2.10	0.00	572
Gatwick to Glasgow													9.57	81.02	2.47	0.18	2,798
Gatwick to Amsterdam													9.71	81.67	3.25	0.11	2,646
Gatwick to Antigua / Tobago / Punta Cana / St Kitts													9.84	82.14	3.27	0.44	459
Gatwick to Jersey													9.91	80.78	2.97	0.14	3,569
Gatwick to Port Of Spain / St Lucia													10.20	86.20	3.23	0.88	681
Gatwick to Bermuda													10.42	88.77	4.68	0.94	641
Gatwick to Cancun													10.48	77.00	2.44	0.00	287
Gatwick to Turin													10.52	79.21	2.63	0.00	760
Gatwick to Edinburgh													10.56	79.93	3.03	0.31	2,870
Gatwick to Mauritius													10.57	75.47	0.00	0.00	53
Gatwick to Naples													11.48	76.43	3.19	0.22	1,786
Gatwick to Marrakesh													11.53	77.31	4.62	0.42	238
Gatwick to Marseille													11.94	75.03	3.38	0.11	1,774
Gatwick to Faro													12.29	76.00	4.29	0.00	1,025
Gatwick to St Kitts													12.39	81.64	3.38	1.45	207
Gatwick to Sharm el-Sheikh													12.41	84.62	5.77	1.92	104
Gatwick to Venice													13.05	74.11	4.69	0.10	2,070
Gatwick to Verona													13.29	77.20	4.90	0.36	1,101
Gatwick to San Juan (Puerto Rico)													13.41	82.39	4.40	1.26	159
Gatwick to Montego Bay													13.42	74.64	4.31	0.00	209
Gatwick to Bologna													13.50	74.34	4.78	0.26	1,925
Gatwick to Thessaloniki													13.50	77.69	5.51	0.75	399
Gatwick to Genoa													13.65	74.31	4.42	0.83	724
Gatwick to Tirana													13.68	78.26	4.66	0.78	644
Gatwick to Rome (Fiumicino)													14.06	73.51	5.11	0.26	1,155
Gatwick to Ibiza													15.92	66.54	5.26	0.00	266
Gatwick to Tampa													16.09	82.23	4.67	1.81	664
Gatwick to Pristina													16.82	66.43	6.53	0.47	429
Gatwick to Pisa													17.02	64.14	6.29	0.00	859
Gatwick to Malaga													18.72	61.51	6.16	0.54	1,673
Gatwick to Innsbruck													18.96	74.84	2.52	1.26	159
Gatwick to Paphos													19.38	61.36	7.95	0.57	176
Gatwick to Tunis													19.90	61.55	6.34	0.61	489
Gatwick to Catania													19.91	63.03	4.62	1.11	541
Gatwick to Male													20.48	81.15	4.79	0.96	313
Gatwick to Kingston													21.31	69.38	3.35	0.48	209
All London Gatwick Routes													11.72	77.97	3.62	0.30	42,304

Note: Data relates to arrivals and departures at London Gatwick
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