Recent flight disruptions
This list of recent flight disruptions shows seven days of confirmed delays of three hours or more, and every cancellation, on the flights we track. A row is a fact, not a verdict: whether the airline owes money turns on the cause. If your flight is here, checking what you are owed takes about two minutes.
Flight status as reported by our data provider, for the flights we track. Whether compensation is due depends on the cause of the disruption, the notice given and your own itinerary.
What do flight delays this week show that a single day does not?
This page holds seven days at once, where the daily hubs hold one. That width is the point of it. A single bad afternoon at one airport looks like noise on the day and like a pattern across a week, and the pattern is what tells you whether your own delay was part of something larger.
Cancelled flights this week sit in the same table as the delays, because the question they raise is the same one. Read it alongside today’s delays and today’s cancellations when you want the last few hours instead.
| List | Window | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Recent flight disruptions | 7 days | Delays of 3 hours or more, and cancellations |
| Delayed flights today | Today | Delays of 3 hours or more |
| Cancelled flights today | Today | Cancellations |
Why does last week's flight still pay?
Nothing about a claim expires in a week. Airlines sometimes suggest otherwise, and their own complaint forms often close after twenty-eight days, but that is the airline’s process and not the law. The legal window runs for years, and it is set by the country you flew from.
What does fade is your evidence. Boarding passes get thrown away, apps drop old bookings, and the text explaining the delay is deleted with the rest of the thread. Save those now, even if you claim later. Our deadline checker gives you the limit for your route.
How do you turn a row of recent flight disruptions into a claim?
Find your flight, open its page and read what we hold on it. If the arrival was three hours or more behind schedule, or the flight never operated, there is a claim to test. The flight check does the testing.
The amount comes from the distance, so a short hop and a long haul on the same bad day are worth very different sums. The delay guide and the EU261 guide set out the bands and the exceptions in full.
What do passengers ask about recent disruptions?
How far back does this week's list go?
Seven days, counted from today. Anything older drops off the page, which is a display choice rather than a legal one. The right to claim outlives the list by years, so a flight that has scrolled off is worth checking exactly as much as one still on it.
Is a flight on this list automatically a valid claim?
No. The list says a flight was late or cancelled, which is the fact we can see. Whether the airline owes money turns on the cause, and the cause is not in the arrival data. A storm and a crew shortage produce the identical row and opposite outcomes.
How old can a disrupted flight be and still pay?
Far older than a week. EU261 sets no deadline itself, so each country applies its own limit: one year in Poland, three in Germany, five in France and Spain, and six in the United Kingdom. Flights from several years ago are routinely still claimable. The EU261 reform approved in July 2026 will replace these national limits with one 9-month deadline across the EU, expected from the second half of 2027; until then the national limits apply.
Several flights on my booking were disrupted. Do I claim once or twice?
It depends on the booking, not the number of flights. One booking through to a final destination is judged by how late you arrived at the end of it, and pays once. Separate bookings are separate journeys, and each one is its own claim.
Sources
- Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 — the regulation itself, in every EU language
- UK Civil Aviation Authority — passenger rights — the UK regulator's own guidance and complaint route