FLIGHTONTIME.info - London Heathrow Airport Flight Delays & Punctuality

This page last updated

London Heathrow Airport
www.heathrowairport.com

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.

	London Heathrow Airport		All UK Airports *
	Jan-Dec 2011	Jan-Dec 2010	Jan-Dec 2011
Average delay (mins)	11.99	16.32	11.01
Within 15 mins (%)	77.75	71.74	80.49
Over 1 hour late (%)	3.76	6.04	3.55
Over 3 hours late (%)	0.45	0.80	0.48
Total flights analysed	472,880	445,093	1,343,408

* - 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 2011)

		Operated during months												Average delay (mins)	Operated within 15 mins (%)	Over 1 hour late (%)	Over 3 hours late (%)	Total flights analysed
Rank	Airline	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
1	KLM													7.21	85.74	1.99	0.20	7,145
2	Cathay Pacific Airways													8.09	85.71	2.27	0.41	2,911
3	Scandinavian SAS													9.20	82.34	2.79	0.28	13,928
4	Aer Lingus													9.28	81.94	2.89	0.25	16,582
5	Etihad Airways													9.49	83.12	3.39	0.46	2,186
6	Finnair													9.83	78.78	2.42	0.17	2,893
7	Qatar Airways													9.83	79.14	2.41	0.31	2,905
8	Brussels Airlines													9.91	79.31	3.42	0.04	2,576
9	Alitalia													9.94	79.37	2.53	0.29	6,877
10	Swiss Airlines													10.02	78.27	2.35	0.09	8,811
11	Vueling Airlines													10.66	80.17	3.20	0.51	2,153
12	THY Turkish													10.72	76.30	2.76	0.03	3,190
13	British Airways													10.77	79.91	3.14	0.35	203,519
14	bmi British Midland													11.12	78.57	3.53	0.27	37,897
15	Air France													11.22	75.84	2.79	0.19	5,699
16	Austrian Airlines													11.58	74.27	2.79	0.05	2,188
17	Delta Airlines													11.68	81.40	4.32	0.87	6,410
18	Singapore Airlines													11.72	77.88	2.56	0.46	2,184
19	Virgin Atlantic Airways													12.26	78.34	4.17	0.50	14,370
20	Lufthansa													12.90	72.46	3.61	0.17	24,808
21	Aegean Airlines													13.87	70.88	4.33	0.36	3,049
22	United Airlines													14.04	80.66	6.33	1.24	6,463
23	American Airlines													14.07	75.97	5.49	0.72	11,356
24	Continental Airlines													14.14	78.17	5.50	1.19	4,947
25	TAP Air Portugal													14.16	74.44	5.96	0.35	4,550
26	Jet Airways													15.69	70.72	6.53	0.41	2,189
27	Emirates													16.15	68.22	4.94	0.55	3,647
28	Air Canada													20.40	67.76	7.24	1.61	7,321
29	Qantas													21.62	72.49	7.07	2.36	2,799
30	Iberia													22.88	56.77	8.52	0.83	5,646