Lufthansa: flights 3+ hours late or cancelled at UK airports

Of 27,324 scheduled Lufthansa flights to and from UK airports in 2025, 1.6% were cancelled or at least 3 hours late (95% range 1.43%–1.73%), measured at the UK airport. Source: UK CAA.

How it works ↓

Data: CAA punctuality statistics, calendar year 2025 (published 25 February 2026) · calculated 3 November 2026 · Methodology and sources

1.6%3+ hours late or cancelled

27,324scheduled flights 2025

By UK airport

UK airport	Scheduled flights	3h+ late or cancelled	95% range	Cancelled
London Heathrow	14,716	1.6%	1.4%–1.9%	231
Manchester	4,785	1.7%	1.4%–2.1%	70
Birmingham	3,576	1.4%	1.1%–1.8%	45
Edinburgh	2,399	1.2%	0.9%–1.8%	27
Glasgow	1,203	1.4%	0.9%–2.2%	15
Newcastle	601	1.5%	0.8%–2.8%	8

UK airports with at least 200 scheduled flights of this airline in 2025; linked airports (500+ flights) have a page with this airline's destinations and a comparison with the other airlines there.

In 2025, Lufthansa disrupted flights to and from the UK exactly as often as the national average, but almost always in one way. The operator Lufthansa recorded 362 cancellations and just 30 flights 3+ hours late: more than nine disruptions in ten were cancellations.

Heathrow and the other airports

More than half of the flights went through London Heathrow: 14,716, of which 231 were cancelled and 10 were late. Edinburgh came in at 1.2%, Manchester at 1.7%. The site counts the Heathrow – Frankfurt route across all airlines: 11,225 flights, 1.9%.

Flight cancelled: refund, alternative flight and UK261

If your flight is cancelled, the airline must give you a choice: a refund for the unused parts of your ticket or an alternative flight. Compensation is possible if you were given less than 14 days' notice and the cause was not extraordinary circumstances (rules on cancellations). The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) lists both Lufthansa operators as German. For an EU airline, UK261 applies both to departures from the UK and to arrivals from Germany.

By operating company

Operator (as listed by the CAA)	Scheduled flights	3h+ late or cancelled	95% range	Cancelled
Lufthansa	24,528	1.6%	1.45%–1.76%	362
Lufthansa City Airlines	2,794	1.4%	1.0%–1.9%	34

Caveats

This is an upper estimate of flights where compensation may be due. Weather, air traffic control, strikes by third parties and security problems are “extraordinary circumstances” and give no right to compensation; cancellations announced 14 days or more ahead do not either.
The CAA measures delay at the UK airport (departure or arrival). The legal test is the delay on arrival at the final destination.
Flights in both directions are combined. For flights from an EU airport, EU261 applies when the airline is an EU airline (€250 / €400 / €600), UK261 when it is a UK airline.
Shares differ between airlines partly because of where and when they fly: routes to islands and airports with frequent weather or air traffic control restrictions raise the share without the airline being at fault.