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These pages show punctuality and delay statistics for scheduled airlines at London Heathrow Airport.

Data is available for the current year to date and for previous years back to 2001. Simply select which year you are interested in below.

A range of specific route-level data is available as well as airport and UK average data. Other scheduled airline and airport statistics are also available by choosing from the menu to the right.

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	Punctuality data for 50 'Key Routes' from London Airports, by airline

	Aer Lingus

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	Scheduled Flights
	London Heathrow Airport		All UK Airports *
	Jan-Dec 2007	Jan-Dec 2006	Jan-Dec 2007
Average Delay (mins)	19.62	18.75	17.30
Within 15 mins (%)	62.67	65.01	68.64
1 hour+ late (%)	6.90	6.73	6.15
3 hours+ late (%)	0.71	0.70	0.73
Total Flights Analysed	471,927	466,992	1,509,841

* - 10 UK Reporting Airports

Punctuality Statistics for the 30 largest scheduled airlines at London Heathrow Airport in terms of total flights during the period
(Jan-Dec 2007)

Rank	Airline	Avg. Delay (mins)	Within 15 mins (%)	1 hour+ late (%)	3 hours+ late (%)	Total Flights analysed
1	Lufthansa (incl City Line)	12.22	74.33	3.09	0.20	20,810
2	KLM (incl Cityhopper)	12.24	75.71	3.70	0.39	9,326
3	bmi British Midland	13.41	72.44	4.04	0.29	52,858
4	Swiss Airlines	13.65	68.84	3.13	0.16	4,406
5	Cathay Pacific	13.71	72.69	3.43	0.65	2,915
6	Aer Lingus	13.89	72.45	4.44	0.29	15,018
7	Austrian Airlines	14.20	68.60	3.62	0.06	3,595
8	United Airlines	14.57	74.80	5.42	0.71	6,932
9	Singapore Airlines	14.79	70.11	4.26	0.78	2,181
10	Air France	15.35	67.04	4.32	0.36	8,141
11	Scandinavian SAS	15.52	69.23	4.91	0.45	13,655
12	Finnair	15.79	65.82	4.30	0.42	2,861
13	Jet Airways	17.10	63.36	4.66	0.50	2,792
14	American Airlines	18.21	67.50	6.89	1.02	10,926
15	LOT Polish	18.33	63.75	4.96	0.70	2,157
16	Air Canada	18.45	68.00	6.28	1.14	8,530
17	Iberia	18.60	62.99	6.12	0.49	9,379
18	Gulf Air	19.08	64.73	6.32	0.85	2,359
19	Alitalia	19.39	59.41	7.04	0.30	8,886
20	GB Airways	19.82	56.78	5.65	0.59	2,904
21	Qatar Airways	20.07	59.86	6.11	0.87	2,175
22	South African Airways	20.38	63.79	5.90	1.01	2,187
23	British Airways	21.07	59.08	7.72	0.57	194,745
24	THY Turkish	22.97	53.22	7.68	0.59	2,187
25	Virgin Atlantic	24.50	53.94	9.21	0.97	16,210
26	Emirates	25.43	45.86	8.11	0.52	3,639
27	TAP Air Portugal	26.55	51.58	12.15	0.86	4,519
28	British Mediterranean *	28.07	51.60	13.50	1.12	4,095
29	Qantas	35.02	43.61	13.03	3.09	2,917
30	Air India	72.75	28.77	34.26	10.33	3,389

* - Operations transferred to bmi British Midland during October 2007