Airport delay rankings

These airport delay rankings rank 150 departure airports by the share of flights that reached the compensation threshold in September 2026: three hours late or more at arrival, or cancelled. Catania had the highest rate, at 17.3%. Leipzig had the lowest, at 0.0%.

Which departure airports top the airport delay rankings for September 2026?

Each needs 200 or more observed flights to be ranked. Open any row for its month-by-month record.

Departure airport	Flights	Qualifying	Rate	Change
Catania (CTA)	3,284	568	17.3%	new
London City (LCY)	1,206	51	4.2%	new
Madeira (FNC)	948	39	4.1%	new
Santiago de Compostela (SCQ)	1,085	43	4.0%	new
Brussels Charleroi (CRL)	1,417	49	3.5%	new
Paphos (PFO)	757	21	2.8%	new
Barcelona (BCN)	41,675	1,106	2.6%	−1.7 pts
Aberdeen (ABZ)	683	18	2.6%	new
London Heathrow (LHR)	74,634	1,892	2.5%	+1.4 pts
Corfu (CFU)	1,521	38	2.5%	new
Bodrum Milas (BJV)	240	6	2.5%	new
Montpellier (MPL)	327	8	2.5%	new
Aalborg (AAL)	465	11	2.4%	new
Manchester (MAN)	9,639	227	2.4%	new
Rome Fiumicino (FCO)	44,128	993	2.3%	+1.5 pts
Valencia (VLC)	2,844	64	2.3%	new
Birmingham (BHX)	3,492	77	2.2%	new
Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS)	34,406	741	2.1%	+0.2 pts
Fuerteventura (FUE)	1,794	38	2.1%	new
Ibiza (IBZ)	4,250	89	2.1%	new
Milan (MXP)	17,203	357	2.1%	new
Milan (LIN)	4,078	83	2.0%	new
Lanzarote (ACE)	2,181	44	2.0%	new
Dubrovnik (DBV)	1,284	26	2.0%	new
Basel Mulhouse (BSL)	1,710	34	2.0%	new
Tel Aviv Ben Gurion (TLV)	4,407	85	1.9%	new
Marseille (MRS)	2,455	47	1.9%	new
Lyon (LYS)	3,312	62	1.9%	new
London Gatwick (LGW)	14,687	271	1.8%	new
Venice (VCE)	2,342	43	1.8%	new
Edinburgh (EDI)	5,511	97	1.8%	new
London Stansted (STN)	8,578	149	1.7%	new
East Midlands (EMA)	990	17	1.7%	new
Newcastle (NCL)	928	16	1.7%	new
Verona (VRN)	757	13	1.7%	new
Sharm el-Sheikh (SSH)	350	6	1.7%	new
Kos (KGS)	941	16	1.7%	new
Geneva (GVA)	7,665	126	1.6%	new
Berlin (BER)	7,029	115	1.6%	new
Alicante (ALC)	4,825	79	1.6%	new
Porto (OPO)	3,107	51	1.6%	new
Larnaca (LCA)	1,954	32	1.6%	new
Menorca (MAH)	1,737	28	1.6%	new
Palermo (PMO)	2,013	31	1.5%	new
Bristol (BRS)	1,776	27	1.5%	new
Glasgow (GLA)	1,479	22	1.5%	new
Malta (MLA)	2,036	30	1.5%	new
Liverpool (LPL)	1,018	15	1.5%	new
Montreal Trudeau (YUL)	1,370	20	1.5%	new
Pula (PUY)	205	3	1.5%	new
Seville (SVQ)	2,353	34	1.4%	new
Bergen (BGO)	1,886	27	1.4%	new
Istanbul (IST)	6,683	94	1.4%	new
Rhodes (RHO)	2,005	28	1.4%	new
Bordeaux (BOD)	1,143	16	1.4%	new
Reykjavik (KEF)	1,263	17	1.4%	new
Venice Treviso (TSF)	444	6	1.4%	new
Brussels (BRU)	16,613	223	1.3%	new
Gothenburg (GOT)	1,198	16	1.3%	new
Helsinki (HEL)	12,359	164	1.3%	new
Salzburg (SZG)	226	3	1.3%	new
Bilbao (BIO)	2,748	36	1.3%	new
Belfast (BFS)	1,223	16	1.3%	new
Timisoara (TSR)	229	3	1.3%	new
Tenerife South (TFS)	2,311	30	1.3%	new
Pisa (PSA)	1,078	14	1.3%	new
Palma (PMI)	18,270	234	1.3%	new
Ponta Delgada (PDL)	863	11	1.3%	new
Hurghada (HRG)	709	9	1.3%	new
Turin (TRN)	1,047	13	1.2%	new
Stavanger (SVG)	966	12	1.2%	new
Hamburg (HAM)	2,801	34	1.2%	new
Dublin (DUB)	14,275	172	1.2%	+1.2 pts
Santorini (JTR)	689	8	1.2%	new
Toronto Pearson (YYZ)	4,893	56	1.1%	new
Leeds Bradford (LBA)	974	11	1.1%	new
Nice (NCE)	2,994	33	1.1%	new
Bologna (BLQ)	1,913	21	1.1%	new
Paris Beauvais (BVA)	816	9	1.1%	new
Copenhagen (CPH)	12,737	137	1.1%	new
Malaga (AGP)	11,403	122	1.1%	−3.7 pts
Faro (FAO)	1,889	20	1.1%	new
Stuttgart (STR)	1,790	19	1.1%	new
Luxembourg (LUX)	1,349	14	1.0%	new
Bucharest (OTP)	3,977	41	1.0%	new
Dusseldorf (DUS)	3,875	40	1.0%	new
Gran Canaria (LPA)	5,369	54	1.0%	new
Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG)	71,566	704	1.0%	+0.4 pts
Prague (PRG)	4,856	47	1.0%	new
Nantes (NTE)	1,240	12	1.0%	new
Paris (ORY)	12,282	118	1.0%	−4.0 pts
Lille (LIL)	314	3	1.0%	new
Budapest (BUD)	3,472	33	0.9%	new
Milan Bergamo (BGY)	2,740	26	0.9%	new
Stockholm (ARN)	5,620	53	0.9%	new
Cluj-Napoca (CLJ)	530	5	0.9%	new
Lisbon (LIS)	17,763	163	0.9%	new
Zurich (ZRH)	17,458	157	0.9%	new
Oslo (OSL)	9,232	82	0.9%	new
Izmir Adnan Menderes (ADB)	680	6	0.9%	new
Zadar (ZAD)	454	4	0.9%	new
Bari (BRI)	1,511	13	0.9%	new
Heraklion (HER)	2,391	20	0.8%	new
Toulouse (TLS)	1,461	12	0.8%	new
Burgas (BOJ)	365	3	0.8%	new
Nuremberg (NUE)	881	7	0.8%	new
Chania (CHQ)	1,215	9	0.7%	new
Strasbourg (SXB)	269	2	0.7%	new
Tallinn (TLL)	959	7	0.7%	new
Wroclaw (WRO)	957	7	0.7%	new
Eindhoven (EIN)	966	7	0.7%	new
Split (SPU)	986	7	0.7%	new
Mykonos (JMK)	563	4	0.7%	new
Frankfurt (FRA)	59,458	416	0.7%	−0.8 pts
Trondheim (TRD)	1,293	9	0.7%	new
Vienna (VIE)	20,790	136	0.7%	−1.2 pts
Munich (MUC)	13,011	83	0.6%	−1.2 pts
Athens (ATH)	14,920	94	0.6%	−0.3 pts
London (LTN)	4,887	30	0.6%	new
Naples (NAP)	2,702	16	0.6%	new
Cairo (CAI)	511	3	0.6%	new
Southampton (SOU)	507	3	0.6%	new
Cologne (CGN)	2,241	13	0.6%	new
Thessaloniki (SKG)	1,909	11	0.6%	new
Zagreb (ZAG)	1,393	8	0.6%	new
Olbia (OLB)	1,096	6	0.5%	new
Gdansk (GDN)	1,233	6	0.5%	new
Antalya (AYT)	4,825	23	0.5%	new
Cagliari (CAG)	1,049	5	0.5%	new
Krakow (KRK)	3,844	18	0.5%	new
Poznan (POZ)	443	2	0.4%	new
Vancouver (YVR)	229	1	0.4%	new
Ljubljana (LJU)	468	2	0.4%	new
Memmingen (FMM)	466	2	0.4%	new
Graz (GRZ)	232	1	0.4%	new
Madrid Barajas (MAD)	54,235	227	0.4%	−0.3 pts
Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen (SAW)	1,193	5	0.4%	new
Billund (BLL)	710	3	0.4%	new
Katowice (KTW)	1,020	4	0.4%	new
Vilnius (VNO)	805	3	0.4%	new
Iasi (IAS)	270	1	0.4%	new
Riga (RIX)	3,590	13	0.4%	new
Tromso (TOS)	827	3	0.4%	new
Bratislava (BTS)	676	2	0.3%	new
Sofia (SOF)	1,403	4	0.3%	new
Varna (VAR)	352	1	0.3%	new
Hannover (HAJ)	1,116	3	0.3%	new
Warsaw (WAW)	8,031	19	0.2%	new
Warsaw Modlin (WMI)	454	1	0.2%	new
Leipzig (LEJ)	879	0	0.0%	new

The change column compares each rate with the month before, in percentage points.

How should you read the September 2026 ranking?

A rate is the share of an airport's observed flights that reached the threshold, so a small airport and a large one compare fairly. These airport delay statistics count delays and cancellations together; the CSV in each monthly release splits them. Airport cancellation rates move with strikes and storms, so one bad month says less than a run of them. Open any row to see the months before.

How is the ranking made?

We record the scheduled and actual times of passenger flights at a panel of monitored airports. A flight qualifies when it arrived three hours or more late, or was cancelled; the airline can still refuse for extraordinary circumstances. The panel is a sample, so read the rates, not the totals. Each month is frozen in the monthly release, and the figures come from Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 thresholds. Check your own flight with the compensation calculator, or start a claim.

How can you cite the airport ranking?

Quote any figure freely. Attribute it to FlightCompensations, link to https://flightcompensations.com/data/airports, and name the month. Press questions go to support@flightcompensations.com; Jaacov Sonenblick is available for comment.