London Luton: flights 3+ hours late or cancelled, by route

Of 102,814 scheduled flights to and from London Luton in 2025, 0.9% were cancelled or at least 3 hours late (95% range 0.89%–1.01%). Among its 68 busy routes (500+ flights), the worst was Suceava (3.1%) and the best Belfast City (0.0%). 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

0.9%3+ hours late or cancelled

102,814scheduled flights 2025

68routes with 500+ flights

Routes with 500+ flights, worst first

Route	3h+ late or cancelled	Flights	km	UK261
Suceava	3.1%	1,302	1,962	£350
Poznań	2.7%	780	1,172	£220
Nice	2.7%	928	1,074	£220
Tel Aviv	2.6%	2,058	3,601	£520
Bacău	2.1%	1,095	2,056	£350
Hurghada	2.1%	628	3,952	£520
Tirana	2.0%	2,375	1,914	£350
Prague	1.7%	1,826	1,041	£220
Kraków	1.6%	1,658	1,420	£220
Keflavik	1.5%	516	1,862	£350
Varna	1.5%	540	2,305	£350
Sharm El Sheikh	1.5%	616	3,916	£520
Athens	1.4%	995	2,443	£350
Glasgow *	1.3%	1,966	518	£220
Craiova	1.3%	849	1,975	£350
Palma de Mallorca	1.3%	2,528	1,391	£220
Inverness	1.2%	1,070	673	£220
Chișinău	1.2%	1,468	2,174	£350
Dalaman	1.1%	623	2,837	£350
Milan (Malpensa)	1.1%	717	961	£220
Istanbul	1.1%	824	2,494	£350
Edinburgh *	1.0%	2,091	494	£220
Iași	1.0%	1,458	2,072	£350
Enfidha-Hammamet	1.0%	505	1,953	£350
Sphinx (Giza)	1.0%	625	3,521	£520
Málaga	1.0%	2,293	1,721	£350
Amsterdam	0.9%	3,293	354	£220
Bratislava	0.9%	653	1,318	£220
Belgrade	0.9%	685	1,710	£350
Paris (Charles de Gaulle)	0.9%	2,405	380	£220
Wrocław	0.8%	715	1,195	£220
Katowice	0.8%	1,284	1,361	£220
Dublin	0.7%	2,427	433	£220
Belfast International	0.7%	2,299	497	£220
Naples	0.7%	817	1,654	£350
Cluj-Napoca	0.7%	1,263	1,823	£350
Geneva	0.7%	2,155	784	£220
Lublin	0.6%	1,252	1,591	£350
Lisbon	0.6%	1,757	1,606	£350
Warsaw	0.6%	2,125	1,455	£220
Alicante	0.6%	2,307	1,511	£350
Larnaca	0.6%	1,031	3,288	£350
Jersey	0.6%	688	323	£220
Cork	0.6%	518	558	£220
Gdańsk	0.6%	1,413	1,283	£220
Timișoara	0.6%	719	1,717	£350
Malta	0.5%	555	2,135	£350
Las Palmas	0.5%	745	2,941	£350
Vilnius	0.5%	1,205	1,724	£350
Faro	0.5%	2,261	1,757	£350
Antalya	0.5%	1,254	2,949	£350
Fuerteventura	0.4%	679	2,835	£350
Sibiu	0.4%	684	1,903	£350
Barcelona	0.4%	1,832	1,191	£220
Bucharest (Otopeni)	0.4%	2,738	2,108	£350
Brașov	0.4%	508	2,004	£350
Kerry	0.4%	780	627	£220
Pristina	0.3%	614	1,908	£350
Tenerife South	0.3%	1,417	2,973	£350
Kaunas	0.3%	1,439	1,647	£350
Lanzarote	0.2%	842	2,775	£350
Budapest	0.2%	2,160	1,492	£220
Ireland West (Knock)	0.2%	1,042	610	£220
Zurich	0.2%	535	807	£220
Split	0.1%	871	1,548	£350
Sofia	0.1%	1,161	2,050	£350
Lyon	0.0%	592	791	£220
Belfast City	0.0%	572	476	£220

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

At Luton, the month you fly in matters little; the route matters far more. The CAA has no monthly figures for delays and cancellations, only the 2025 total, and by month you can see only how often weather disrupted arrivals.

August and weather

Between January 2018 and September 2026, EUROCONTROL imposed weather restrictions on arrivals at Luton on 7% of August days; July is quieter still (6%), October is the worst (21%). Such days come cheap: an average of 0.28 minutes of waiting per arriving flight, and it rarely goes as far as a cancellation. All months: weather at Luton.

Eastbound routes

In 2025, 0.9% of the airport's flights were disrupted, against 1.6% nationally, but the longer eastern routes fare worse. On Suceava 3.1% of 1,302 flights, on Tel Aviv 2.6%, on Tirana 2.0%, on Amsterdam 0.9%. Tel Aviv is beyond 3,500 km, so compensation depends on how late you arrive: £260 for 3–4 hours, £520 for more than 4 hours. easyJet UK disrupted 0.8% of 43,784 flights, Wizz Air UK 1.7%.

Airlines at this airport

Airline	Scheduled flights	3h+ late or cancelled	95% range	Cancelled
easyJet UK	43,784	0.8%	0.76%–0.93%	197
Wizz Air UK	18,803	1.7%	1.50%–1.86%	96
Ryanair	14,331	0.6%	0.45%–0.70%	11
Wizz Air	11,449	0.6%	0.48%–0.76%	20
Wizz Air Malta	8,751	0.8%	0.61%–0.98%	15
Jet2	2,179	1.0%	0.6%–1.5%	4
El Al	964	0.3%	0.1%–0.9%	1
easyJet Europe	872	2.9%	1.9%–4.2%	16
Israir	599	3.0%	1.9%–4.7%	6

Airlines with at least 500 scheduled flights here in 2025.

Airline pages for this airport: easyJet · Wizz Air · Ryanair · Jet2 · El Al

How often weather restricts arrivals at London Luton, 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.