Christmas flight delays and how likely delays of your flight are

If you’re planning on hitting the slopes to reenact the Last Christmas music video, or escaping the cold for a bit of winter sun, then you might want to check out our Christmas Flight Delays gadget. More than a third (36%) of all flights from UK airports were delayed by at least 15 minutes last December, according to punctuality data from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). One route, however, can claim to be the most regularly delayed out of the country, when limiting it to those with at least 10 flights.

All of the 23 Egypt Air flights from Manchester to Cairo last December were delayed by at least 15 minutes. The route had an average delay of one hour and seven minutes. The Tunisair route from Heathrow to Tunis was the next-least reliable, with 92% of flights delayed by 15 minutes or more last December.



The route had an average delay of two hours. If you’re heading away this December, you can search for your route in our gadget to see how likely it was to be delayed last year: Manchester to Cairo - Egypt Air: 100% Gatwick to Addis Ababa - Ethiopian Airlines: 92% Heathrow to Tunis - Tunisair: 92% Heathrow to Seoul (Incheon) - Asiana Airlines: 91% Heathrow to Almaty - Air Astana: 88% Glasgow to Dubai - Emirates: 87% Heathrow to Taipei - Eva Air: 87% Heathrow to Colombo - Srilankan Airlines: 85% Manchester to Kuwait - Kuwait Airways: 85% Heathrow to Accra - British Airways Plc: 84% Heathrow to Delhi - Tata Sia Airlines Ltd (Vistara): 84% Heathrow to Vancouver - British Airways Plc: 84% Gatwick to Jeddah - Saudi Arabian Airlines: 83% Glasgow to Krakow - Ryanair: 83% Manchester to Bologna - Ryanair: 83% Birmingham to Montego Bay - Tui Airways Ltd: 82% Gatwick to Banjul - Titan Airways Ltd: 82% Gatwick to Bridgetown - Tui Airways Ltd: 82% Manchester to Vienna - Ryanair: 82% Edinburgh to Bale Mulhouse - Easyjet Switzerland: 81% Edinburgh to Helsinki - Finnair: 81% Birmingham to Bucharest (Otopeni) - Wizz Air Malta: 81% Heathrow to Islamabad International Airport - British Airways Plc: 149 mins Heathrow to Tunis - Tunisair: 120 mins Heathrow to Santiago De Chile - British Airways Plc: 95 mins Birmingham to Barcelona - Vueling Airlines: 89 mins Gatwick to Amritsar - Air India: 77 mins Manchester to Dhakha - Biman Bangladesh Airlines: 75 mins Gatwick to Cochin - Air India: 73 mins Heathrow to Delhi - Air India: 71 mins Aberdeen to Southampton - Loganair Ltd: 69 mins Heathrow to Almaty - Air Astana: 67 mins Manchester to Cairo - Egypt Air: 67 mins Manchester to Kuwait - Kuwait Airways: 66 mins Heathrow to Miami International - British Airways Plc: 66 mins Birmingham to Krakow - Wizz Air: 64 mins Heathrow to Dhakha - Biman Bangladesh Airlines: 64 mins Heathrow to Colombo - Srilankan Airlines: 62 mins Aberdeen to Dublin - Loganair Ltd: 58 mins Bristol to Madrid - Ryanair: 58 mins Glasgow to Amsterdam - Easyjet Uk Ltd: 58 mins Manchester to Venice - Easyjet Europe: 57 mins.