{"id":2175,"date":"2026-03-31T13:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/2175\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T13:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:18:12","slug":"two-london-airports-have-been-ranked-among-the-worst-in-the-uk-for-easter-flight-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/2175\/","title":{"rendered":"Two London airports have been ranked among the worst in the UK for Easter flight delays"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t31 March, 2026<\/p>\n

Few things are more exciting and anticipated than a trip<\/a> abroad. Not much beats travelling to new places to see exciting sights and chow down on delicious food \u2013 or just lounge on a sandy beach<\/a>. But then, few things are worse in life than air travel \u2013 especially when your flight gets delayed. And if you\u2019re travelling out of London this Easter<\/a>, you might want to avoid two particular London airports, which were recently ranked among the worst in the UK for Easter flight delays. <\/p>\n

A recent study* looked at flight data for April<\/a> between 2022-2025 to determine which airports had the most delays, tallying up flights with delays of 15 minutes or more. Data from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), encompassing over 650,000 flights across 24 UK airports, revealed that two London airports were among the worst. London\u2019s Stansted<\/a> and Luton airports came in at joint third for the worst Easter flight delays. At both airports, almost a third of flights were delayed over the Easter period. <\/p>\n

However, we\u2019re not the worst! Two UK airports flew to the top of the list, with even more frequent delays. Taking the crown for the worst Easter flight delays in the UK was Birmingham<\/a>. And close behind in second place was Manchester<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Worst airports for Easter flight delays<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re flying somewhere this April, you might want to try to avoid these airports. That\u2019s because they had the most Easter flight delays in April of 2022-2025. <\/p>\n

Birmingham \u2013 29.9% of flights delayed more than 15 minutes<\/p>\n

Manchester \u2013 29.8% of flights delayed more than 15 minutes<\/p>\n

Stansted \u2013 29.7% of flights delayed more than 15 minutes (joint 3rd)<\/p>\n

Luton \u2013 29.7% of flights delayed more than 15 minutes (joint 3rd)<\/p>\n

Edinburgh \u2013 29.2% of flights delayed more than 15 minutes<\/p>\n

Bristol \u2013 29% of flights delayed more than 15 minutes<\/p>\n

Best airports for Easter flight delays<\/p>\n

Wondering which airports had the least delays? These UK airports saw flights taking off on time most frequently:<\/p>\n

Belfast City \u2013 17.6% of flights delayed more than 15 minutes<\/p>\n

East Midlands \u2013 17.8% of flights delayed more than 15 minutes<\/p>\n

London City<\/a> \u2013 18.4% of flights delayed more than 15 minutes<\/p>\n

Exeter \u2013 19.6% of flights delayed more than 15 minutes<\/p>\n

Glasgow \u2013 19.9% of flights delayed more than 15 minutes<\/p>\n

In most cases, the smaller airports had fewer delays than the large ones.<\/p>\n

*Study conducted by Locals Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: muratart, Shutterstock \u00a0\u2013\u00a0 Staff Writer \u00a0\u00b7\u00a0 31 March, 2026 Few things are more exciting and anticipated than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1535,468,27,104,1536],"class_list":{"0":"post-2175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-airports","9":"tag-easter","10":"tag-london","11":"tag-travel","12":"tag-trip-travel"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}