FLIGHTONTIME.info - Scheduled Airline Delays & Punctuality in the UK

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These pages show punctuality and delay statistics for scheduled flights as measured at 10 UK reporting airports.

A range of specific route-level data is available for several scheduled airlines at these UK reporting airports, and this information can be accessed by selecting a page from the appropriate menu to the right.

Airport-level data is also available for scheduled flights which features a delay 'league' table for each UK reporting airport by airline, simply select an airport from the appropriate menu to the right.

The table below shows a league table of scheduled airline delays for the 35 largest operators at the 10 UK reporting airports.

Recent summary statistics for scheduled airline punctuality during the latest month or year to date for which data is available can be found on our Latest OTP page.

		Average Delay (mins.)				Within 15 mins (%)				> 1 hour late (%)				2012 Jan-Dec Flights Analysed (Sample %)
	2012 Rank	2009 Jan- Dec	2010 Jan- Dec	2011 Jan- Dec	2012 Jan- Dec	2009 Jan- Dec	2010 Jan- Dec	2011 Jan- Dec	2012 Jan- Dec	2009 Jan- Dec	2010 Jan- Dec	2011 Jan- Dec	2012 Jan- Dec	2012 Jan-Dec Flights Analysed (Sample %)
bmi Regional (in detail)	1st	4.8	7.1	5.3	4.3	93.3	89.7	91.7	93.9	2.0	3.2	2.0	1.8	11,631 (TBC)
CityJet (incl VLM) (in detail)	2nd	6.5	8.9	6.6	6.3	89.3	85.8	89.2	89.8	2.3	3.5	2.4	2.2	30,941 (100%)
Aer Lingus (in detail)	3rd	12.0	13.7	9.1	6.6	79.2	77.9	83.0	87.7	4.4	5.5	3.0	2.3	27,037 (TBC)
KLM (in detail)	4th	5.8	9.3	6.9	6.7	90.6	84.7	87.7	88.6	1.6	3.2	1.7	1.8	25,708 (TBC)
BA CityFlyer (in detail)	5th	11.0	13.5	8.2	7.2	80.5	78.5	86.6	87.7	4.3	6.3	3.5	2.6	27,897 (100%)
Scandinavian SAS (in detail)	6th	8.1	10.1	8.7	8.2	86.0	81.8	83.5	84.6	2.6	4.0	2.7	2.8	17,353 (88%)
Air France	7th	10.5	13.9	9.0	8.5	79.5	75.1	81.0	82.2	3.2	4.8	2.2	1.9	9,601 (100%)
Brussels Airlines	8th	7.7	12.0	8.3	8.7	85.7	79.1	85.0	83.5	2.0	4.8	2.4	2.7	9,089 (83%)
bmi baby (in detail)	9th	11.0	18.0	10.3	8.7	83.4	72.8	83.8	86.4	4.3	8.0	4.2	2.9	5,484 (TBC)
Loganair	10th	9.0	10.2	8.3	8.8	87.9	86.4	88.4	87.9	3.6	4.6	3.8	4.0	18,281 (50%)
Eastern Airways (in detail)	11th	7.9	8.3	7.7	9.1	88.9	89.2	88.3	87.4	3.0	3.9	2.7	4.2	5,889 (23%)
Ryanair (in detail)	12th	11.0	13.7	8.1	9.2	79.9	75.9	85.2	83.3	2.9	4.4	1.7	2.1	131,686 (TBC)
easyJet (in detail)	13th	13.7	24.9	10.2	9.2	77.0	61.4	81.8	84.3	5.2	12.0	3.4	3.1	204,741 (TBC)
Norwegian Air Shuttle	14th	13.7	15.6	10.8	10.0	75.4	73.2	78.0	81.5	4.6	6.0	2.9	3.1	10,862 (100%)
Swiss Airlines (in detail)	15th	8.7	12.3	9.0	10.1	83.1	75.8	81.8	79.4	2.5	4.2	1.6	2.9	21,103 (100%)
Alitalia	16th	13.9	15.1	9.9	10.3	73.6	68.6	79.4	78.2	5.2	5.1	2.5	3.0	7,298 (100%)
Flybe (in detail)	17th	11.2	13.3	9.5	10.6	83.3	81.0	84.9	83.3	4.5	5.8	3.6	4.1	107,808 (71%)
Germanwings	18th	8.7	13.4	9.3	10.7	83.7	77.5	82.7	79.6	2.1	4.5	2.7	3.3	8,473 (100%)
Lufthansa (in detail)	19th	10.0	15.4	12.9	11.0	80.9	71.0	73.0	77.6	3.2	5.7	3.6	3.2	40,975 (TBC)
Aurigny	20th	8.8	11.1	11.1	11.0	88.3	86.8	86.8	83.4	4.0	4.5	4.5	4.4	5,859 (TBC)
Aer Arann	21st	9.4	15.5	12.2	11.1	87.5	80.0	84.5	84.4	3.9	7.1	5.5	4.7	14,134 (94%)
bmi British Midland (in detail)	22nd	9.3	11.7	11.0	11.2	83.4	79.2	78.7	79.6	3.2	4.3	3.5	3.7	21,681 (100%)
Delta Air Lines	23rd	13.4	21.5	11.8	11.6	80.2	66.2	81.5	81.5	6.0	9.5	4.6	4.1	6,915 (100%)
British Airways (in detail)	24th	11.0	15.1	10.8	13.7	81.1	74.0	79.7	75.6	3.6	5.5	3.2	4.8	302,909 (100%)
Virgin Atlantic (in detail)	25th	19.4	26.2	13.7	15.0	68.4	61.8	76.5	76.9	8.2	10.9	5.2	5.6	20,209 (100%)
Wizz Air	26th	16.7	22.9	16.2	15.6	73.1	67.7	72.5	75.5	5.6	9.4	5.2	5.2	16,659 (84%)
Iberia	27th	17.2	25.2	22.9	15.7	68.9	57.1	56.8	66.6	6.3	11.6	8.5	4.7	3,396 (100%)
THY Turkish	28th	26.2	26.8	11.6	15.7	46.6	46.2	73.9	69.0	10.1	10.3	2.9	5.5	6,233 (100%)
Emirates	29th	17.6	20.8	17.5	16.6	61.9	57.2	64.2	64.2	4.3	6.2	5.3	4.5	11,244 (100%)
American Airlines (in detail)	30th	15.1	20.0	14.8	16.7	74.2	66.6	75.7	72.9	5.8	8.1	5.9	6.1	13,352 (100%)
TAP Air Portugal	31st	9.7	16.3	12.6	17.6	81.8	70.0	77.4	67.4	3.5	6.5	5.0	7.8	7,586 (100%)
Jet2 (in detail)	32nd	21.5	35.5	24.5	17.8	65.7	48.1	60.7	72.6	7.6	15.3	9.1	6.2	16,549 (53%)
United / Continental (in detail)	33rd	16.1	18.8	14.7	18.1	75.7	71.3	79.1	71.5	6.5	7.9	6.3	7.7	14,665 (96%)
Air Canada	34th	17.6	20.1	20.4	23.9	72.1	66.9	67.8	65.3	6.0	6.7	7.2	8.5	7,372 (100%)
Monarch Scheduled (in detail)	35th	15.8	30.4	18.3	25.9	78.0	61.2	70.4	63.4	5.8	12.2	6.2	9.7	28,173 (94%)

2012 Ranking by Jan-Dec average delay (ascending). Analysis includes arrivals and departures at UK reporting airports.
Sample %: Proportion of flights analysed at UK reporting airports compared with total flights at all UK airports for each airline.
United / Continental: Statistics combined for both airlines for data prior to 2012.