Birmingham: flights 3+ hours late or cancelled, by route

Of 84,459 scheduled flights to and from Birmingham in 2025, 1.5% were cancelled or at least 3 hours late (95% range 1.42%–1.58%). Among its 43 busy routes (500+ flights), the worst was Belfast City (4.9%) and the best Las Palmas (0.1%). Source: UK CAA.

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

1.5%3+ hours late or cancelled

84,459scheduled flights 2025

43routes with 500+ flights

Routes with 500+ flights, worst first

Route	3h+ late or cancelled	Flights	km	UK261
Belfast City *	4.9%	3,631	363	£220
Guernsey	4.4%	697	341	£220
Aberdeen	4.3%	1,652	529	£220
Copenhagen	3.8%	520	1,002	£220
Isle of Man *	2.5%	553	263	£220
Amsterdam	2.2%	4,693	442	£220
Belfast International	2.2%	2,518	383	£220
Dublin	1.9%	7,515	321	£220
Munich	1.7%	1,191	1,060	£220
Corfu	1.3%	554	2,184	£350
Kraków	1.2%	1,064	1,515	£350
Frankfurt	1.2%	2,482	766	£220
Paris (Charles de Gaulle)	1.2%	3,157	488	£220
Glasgow *	1.1%	1,231	418	£220
Antalya	1.1%	2,071	3,060	£350
Düsseldorf	1.1%	1,189	598	£220
Doha	1.1%	736	5,352	£520
Palma de Mallorca	1.1%	2,219	1,475	£220
Marrakesh	1.1%	650	2,374	£350
Rhodes	1.0%	770	2,931	£350
Edinburgh	1.0%	2,129	403	£220
Zurich	1.0%	877	921	£220
Geneva	1.0%	813	894	£220
Bucharest (Otopeni)	1.0%	1,034	2,213	£350
Tenerife South	0.8%	1,945	2,978	£350
Dubai	0.8%	1,472	5,604	£520
Istanbul	0.8%	1,603	2,602	£350
Berlin Brandenburg	0.8%	640	1,033	£220
Alicante	0.8%	2,439	1,579	£350
Istanbul (Sabiha Gokcen)	0.7%	551	2,666	£350
Dalaman	0.7%	1,441	2,950	£350
Málaga	0.7%	2,050	1,767	£350
Barcelona	0.6%	1,725	1,274	£220
Ibiza	0.5%	578	1,529	£350
Budapest	0.5%	781	1,597	£350
Beauvais	0.5%	643	429	£220
Malta	0.4%	793	2,245	£350
Faro	0.4%	1,642	1,784	£350
Rome (Fiumicino)	0.4%	546	1,583	£350
Lanzarote	0.4%	1,115	2,790	£350
Fuerteventura	0.2%	951	2,850	£350
Verona	0.2%	514	1,209	£220
Las Palmas	0.1%	829	2,951	£350

* Domestic route measured at the other airport (both airports report the same flights; we show the larger one's figures).

In Birmingham in 2025, the airline and the route decided a flight's fate; weather barely got involved. The airport as a whole is slightly more reliable than the national average (1.6%), but the spread within it is wide: from fractions of a per cent among the low-cost carriers to 7.3% for Air India.

Which airline and which route

Ryanair had 0.6% of flights disrupted and Jet2 0.7%. At the other end sits Aer Lingus: 258 cancellations out of 7,587 flights, 4.0%, with regional carrier Loganair close behind (3.9%). The short routes fare worst: Belfast City 4.9%, Guernsey 4.4%. The busiest route, Dublin, comes in at 1.9% across 7,515 flights, while Las Palmas is just 0.1%. UK261 compensation in the route table: £220 on routes up to 1,500 km and £350 to Las Palmas (2,951 km).

Why weather has almost nothing to do with it

Between January 2018 and September 2026, EUROCONTROL imposed weather restrictions on arrivals at Birmingham on just 13 days out of 3,195 (0.4%). That figure excludes cancellations and covers only restrictions on arrivals, but even so it is clear that disruptions here are rarely down to the weather.

Airlines at this airport

Airline	Scheduled flights	3h+ late or cancelled	95% range	Cancelled
Ryanair	20,130	0.6%	0.47%–0.68%	21
Jet2	15,734	0.7%	0.57%–0.83%	31
easyJet UK	12,155	1.5%	1.3%–1.8%	126
Aer Lingus	7,587	4.0%	3.6%–4.5%	258
KLM	3,405	2.2%	1.8%–2.7%	63
Lufthansa	2,786	1.3%	0.9%–1.7%	31
Air France	2,402	1.0%	0.7%–1.5%	24
Loganair	2,207	3.9%	3.2%–4.8%	81
TUI Airways	2,135	1.1%	0.8%–1.7%	3
easyJet Europe	1,740	2.5%	1.9%–3.4%	30
Turkish Airlines	1,603	0.8%	0.5%–1.4%	11
SunExpress	1,496	0.7%	0.4%–1.3%	6
Emirates	1,473	0.8%	0.5%–1.4%	11
Eurowings	1,225	1.1%	0.6%–1.8%	11
Wizz Air Malta	984	1.9%	1.2%–3.0%	8
Swiss	877	1.0%	0.5%–1.9%	8
Lufthansa City Airlines	790	1.9%	1.2%–3.1%	14
Qatar Airways	736	1.1%	0.5%–2.1%	6
Aurigny	697	4.4%	3.1%–6.2%	21
Air India	631	7.3%	5.6%–9.6%	30
easyJet Switzerland	585	0.9%	0.4%–2.0%	2
Pegasus	551	0.7%	0.3%–1.8%	3
SAS	521	3.8%	2.5%–5.8%	18

Airlines with at least 500 scheduled flights here in 2025.

Airline pages for this airport: Ryanair · Jet2 · easyJet · Aer Lingus · Lufthansa · KLM · Air France · Loganair · TUI · Turkish Airlines · SunExpress · Emirates · Eurowings · Wizz Air · Swiss · Qatar Airways · Aurigny · Air India · Pegasus · SAS

How often weather restricts arrivals at Birmingham, by month

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.