Airport reliability report

Stansted Airport reliability report

CAA punctuality and traffic figures for Stansted, covering Jan 2025 to Mar 2025.

Higher disruption risk

Labels compare airports on the same rolling window; they never predict an individual flight.

How we work this out

Each airport's rolling 12-month on-time percentage (departures early to 15 minutes late, matched flights only) is ranked against all UK reporting airports over the same window. The top third is labelled Usually reliable, the middle third Mixed reliability, and the bottom third Higher disruption risk. Airports with fewer than 1,000 matched flights in the window, or too few peers to compare, show Insufficient public data instead of a label. This comparison used 22 airports.

Last 12 reported months

On time (within 15 min)
75.5%
Average delay
13 min
Cancelled
0.3%
Matched flights
38 624

How delayed do flights get?

Share of flights over the same window, including cancellations, so the bands total roughly 100%.

  • On time (early to 15 min) 75.3%
  • 16 to 30 min late 11.3%
  • 31 to 60 min late 8.3%
  • 1 to 3 hours late 4.0%
  • 3 to 6 hours late 0.4%
  • Over 6 hours late 0.1%
  • Cancelled 0.3%

Passenger volume

Passengers (2025)
29 758 490
Share of UK passengers
9.9%
Change vs 2020
+294.8%
Passengers (2020)
7 536 869

The comparison year 2020 was heavily affected by pandemic travel restrictions, which inflates the change figure.

Month by month

Month On time Average delay Cancelled Matched flights
Jan 2025 68.0% 19 min 0.6% 11 819
Feb 2025 76.2% 12 min 0.3% 12 562
Mar 2025 81.1% 9 min 0.1% 14 243

Airlines at this airport

Share of matched flights over the same window.

Airline Share of flights On time
Ryanair 74.8% 74.8%
Ryanair Uk Ltd 9.1% 75.0%
Jet2.Com Ltd 3.9% 76.3%
Easyjet Uk Ltd 3.7% 83.7%
Pegasus Airlines 3.0% 83.0%
Ajet Hava Tasimaciligi Anonim Sirketi 1.1% 80.1%
Emirates 0.9% 84.5%
Easyjet Europe 0.6% 78.0%
Tui Airways Ltd 0.6% 64.0%
Sunexpress 0.5% 78.3%
Fly Play Hf 0.4% 80.7%
Hisky 0.3% 59.8%

Busiest routes from this airport

Destination Matched flights On time
Dublin 1 400 76.3%
Istanbul (Sabiha Gokcen) 1 173 82.0%
Edinburgh 1 084 79.7%
Belfast International 936 79.0%
Rome (Ciampino) 871 81.1%
Barcelona 775 67.7%
Tenerife (Surreina Sofia) 771 79.4%
Bergamo 763 62.7%
Madrid 758 69.8%
Bucharest (Otopeni) 637 79.8%
Budapest 617 79.3%
Berlin Brandenburg 595 75.5%
All 194 routes from Stansted

London transport — line status snapshot

No recent snapshot available. The last recorded snapshot is older than 48 hours, so no line status is shown. Check TfL directly for current status.

Sources and caveats

Period covered comes from the data itself; the load date is when that data reached this service. The two are shown separately on purpose.

CAA UK flight punctuality statistics

Covers Jan 2025 to Mar 2025 · Grain: airline, route, airport and month

Loaded 05 Aug 2026

CAA UK airport data

Covers 2025 · Grain: airport and year

Loaded 05 Aug 2026

  • Punctuality figures cover flights the CAA matched between schedule and operation; unmatched flights are excluded.