{"id":104075,"date":"2025-05-15T17:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T17:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/104075\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T17:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T17:29:08","slug":"the-european-destination-where-your-flight-is-most-likely-to-be-delayed-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/104075\/","title":{"rendered":"The European destination where your flight is most likely to be delayed | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the summer season<\/a> almost here, Brits<\/a> have already begun to plan their holidays, and the most common destinations are European cities. However, there are a few hotspots where the travellers are likely to face travel delays<\/a>, a latest analysis has revealed.<\/p>\n

An analysis of the new Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) that took account of the flight delays in 2024 found that those travelling to Greece and Turkey are most likely to face travel disruptions.\u00a0 The data covers the average delays to flights to destinations from all UK airports in 2024. According to the CAA, in 2024, the average delay to all flights in the UK stood at 19 minutes.<\/p>\n

In 2024, UK flights to popular Greek destinations experienced notable delays, with arrivals and departures to Rhodes averaging 34 minutes and Kos 33 minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Crete\u2019s main airports, Chania and Heraklion, saw delays of 33 and 27 minutes, respectively, while Thessaloniki recorded an average delay of 26 minutes.<\/p>\n

Similarly, flights to Turkey faced disruptions, with delays exceeding 25 minutes for Antalya (31 minutes), Bodrum (28 minutes), and Dalaman (26 minutes).<\/p>\n

In contrast, flights to Spain\u2019s Canary Islands had shorter delays, with Tenerife, Fuerteventura, and Lanzarote all averaging under 20 minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The same was true for key European capitals, including Paris (17 minutes), Madrid (16 minutes), and Prague (18 minutes).<\/p>\n

Anton Radchenko, CEO at AirAdvisor<\/a>, who crunched the numbers, explains: \u201cUnfortunately for travellers to Greece and Turkey, there is a clear pattern emerging in terms of the destinations where Brits are most likely to experience delays to their holiday flights.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd with Greece in particular, the situation could be about to get even more complicated due to ongoing industrial action from air traffic control workers, that in February and early April caused Greek airspace to close completely for multiple days.<\/p>\n

\u201cSimilarly, air traffic controllers, baggage handlers and air crew in Italy have gone on strike numerous times this year – with more strikes planned in May.<\/p>\n

\u201cBased on the CAA\u2019s data, if you are looking for a popular holiday destination where you are less likely to be affected by delays to your journey, the Canary Islands of Tenerife, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote all had low average delay times.”<\/p>\n

Full list of average delays on flights in 2024 to all UK airports to\/from popular destinations :<\/p>\n

Rhodes, Greece – 34 minute<\/p>\n

Chania, Greece – 33 mins<\/p>\n

Kos, Greece – 33 mins<\/p>\n

Antalya, Turkey- 31 min<\/p>\n

Bodrum, Turkey – 28 mins<\/p>\n

Heraklion, Greece – 27 mins<\/p>\n

Palma de Mallorca, Spain – 26 mins<\/p>\n

Dalaman, Turkey – 26 mins<\/p>\n

Salonica\/Thessaloniki, Greece – 26 mins<\/p>\n

Larnaca – 25 mins – Cyprus<\/p>\n

Pisa, Italy – 25 mins<\/p>\n

Naples, Italy – 25 mins<\/p>\n

Skiathos, Greece – 24 mins<\/p>\n

Marseille, France – 24 mins<\/p>\n

Dubrovnik, Croatia – 24 mins<\/p>\n

Paphos, Cyprus – 23 mins<\/p>\n

Nice, France – 23 mins<\/p>\n

Milan (Malpensa), Italy – 23 mins<\/p>\n

Lisbon, Portugal – 23 mins<\/p>\n

Athens, Greece – 22 mins<\/p>\n

Sofia, Bulgaria – 22 mins<\/p>\n

Palermo, Italy – 22 mins<\/p>\n

Toulouse, France – 21 mins<\/p>\n

Izmir, Turkey – 21 mins<\/p>\n

Bordeaux, France – 21 mins<\/p>\n

Ibiza, Spain – 21 mins<\/p>\n

Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain – 20 mins<\/p>\n

Rome Fiumicino, Italy – 20 mins<\/p>\n

Funchal, Portugal – 20 mins<\/p>\n

Arrecife (Lanzarote), Spain – 19 mins<\/p>\n

Malta – 19 mins<\/p>\n

Malaga, Spain – 19 mins<\/p>\n

Barcelona, Spain- 19 mins<\/p>\n

Istanbul, Turkey – 18 mins<\/p>\n

Seville, Spain – 18 mins<\/p>\n

Prague, Czechia – 18 mins<\/p>\n

Paris (Charles De Gaulle), France – 17 mins<\/p>\n

Madrid, Spain – 16 mins<\/p>\n

Fuerteventura, Spain – 17 mins<\/p>\n

Tenerife, Spain – 16 mins<\/p>\n

Faro, Portugal – 15 mins<\/p>\n

Alicante, Spain – 17 mins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the summer season almost here, Brits have already begun to plan their holidays, and the most common…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[4328,5719,2000,299,5187,2592,1450,104,461],"class_list":{"0":"post-104075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-airports","9":"tag-cities","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-flights","14":"tag-greece","15":"tag-spain","16":"tag-turkey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114513036110689371","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}