LEAGUE TABLE · JULY 2026

Delay league — departures from London Heathrow

London Heathrow → New York Newark was the most disruption-prone route in this ranking in July 2026: 1.8% of its flights arrived 3 or more hours late and 5% were cancelled, across 267 flights in official UK CAA data.

The 42 tracked London Heathrow routes, ranked by disruption rate in July 2026.

HOW A ROUTE QUALIFIES

Ranked across 11,432 departures from LHR in the month's CAA file. Full methodology →

Ranked by disruption rate

#	Route	Flights	3h+ late	Cancelled	Avg delay
1	LHR → EWRLondon Heathrow → New York Newark	267	1.8%	5%	19 min
2	LHR → HKGLondon Heathrow → Hong Kong	182	1.6%	4.2%	22 min
3	LHR → ORDLondon Heathrow → Chicago O'Hare	264	0.4%	5%	17 min
4	LHR → JFKLondon Heathrow → New York JFK	614	0.8%	4.5%	18 min
5	LHR → IADLondon Heathrow → Washington Dulles	180	1.1%	3.2%	15 min
6	LHR → BOMLondon Heathrow → Mumbai	237	0.4%	3.7%	19 min
7	LHR → YYZLondon Heathrow → Toronto Pearson	204	1.4%	1.9%	21 min
8	LHR → BOSLondon Heathrow → Boston	242	0%	2.8%	16 min
9	LHR → OSLLondon Heathrow → Oslo	213	0%	2.7%	7 min
10	LHR → LINLondon Heathrow → Milan Linate	189	0%	2.6%	11 min
11	LHR → AMSLondon Heathrow → Amsterdam	430	0.2%	2.3%	9 min
12	LHR → DELLondon Heathrow → Delhi	255	0.4%	1.9%	18 min
13	LHR → LAXLondon Heathrow → Los Angeles	264	0.8%	1.1%	13 min
14	LHR → GLALondon Heathrow → Glasgow	279	0.4%	1.4%	13 min
15	LHR → CDGLondon Heathrow → Paris CDG	371	0.5%	1.3%	11 min
16	LHR → SFOLondon Heathrow → San Francisco	216	0.9%	0.9%	16 min
17	LHR → WAWLondon Heathrow → Warsaw Chopin	173	0.6%	1.1%	15 min
18	LHR → MADLondon Heathrow → Madrid	369	0%	1.6%	13 min
19	LHR → ARNLondon Heathrow → Stockholm Arlanda	238	0.4%	1.2%	9 min
20	LHR → BCNLondon Heathrow → Barcelona	291	0%	1.4%	13 min
21	LHR → DOHLondon Heathrow → Doha	213	0.5%	0.9%	23 min
22	LHR → MUCLondon Heathrow → Munich	379	0%	1.3%	13 min
23	LHR → DUBLondon Heathrow → Dublin	557	0%	1.2%	9 min
24	LHR → BHDLondon Heathrow → Belfast City	177	0%	1.1%	14 min
25	LHR → CPHLondon Heathrow → Copenhagen	277	0.4%	0.7%	8 min
26	LHR → EDILondon Heathrow → Edinburgh	309	0.6%	0.3%	15 min
27	LHR → ZRHLondon Heathrow → Zurich	330	0%	0.9%	16 min
28	LHR → ATHLondon Heathrow → Athens	290	0%	0.7%	16 min
29	LHR → FCOLondon Heathrow → Rome Fiumicino	303	0%	0.7%	15 min
30	LHR → GVALondon Heathrow → Geneva	360	0%	0.6%	15 min
31	LHR → LISLondon Heathrow → Lisbon	325	0.6%	0%	16 min
32	LHR → HNDLondon Heathrow → Tokyo Haneda	155	0.6%	0%	14 min
33	LHR → BERLondon Heathrow → Berlin	196	0%	0.5%	10 min
34	LHR → DXBLondon Heathrow → Dubai	186	0.5%	0%	29 min
35	LHR → FRALondon Heathrow → Frankfurt	395	0%	0.5%	12 min
36	LHR → HAMLondon Heathrow → Hamburg	184	0%	0.5%	15 min
37	LHR → MANLondon Heathrow → Manchester	194	0%	0.5%	11 min
38	LHR → VIELondon Heathrow → Vienna	216	0.5%	0%	13 min
39	LHR → NCELondon Heathrow → Nice	230	0%	0.4%	15 min
40	LHR → BRULondon Heathrow → Brussels	174	0%	0%	15 min
41	LHR → DUSLondon Heathrow → Düsseldorf	233	0%	0%	12 min
42	LHR → ISTLondon Heathrow → Istanbul	271	0%	0%	11 min

Delay statistics derived from UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) punctuality data. UK CAA flight punctuality statistics · July 2026. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the CAA. How we calculate these figures →

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