"After spending months anticipating a holiday, a week spent packing and doing last minute admin, and several stressful hours going through check-in and security at the airport, the very last thing you want to hear is that your flight has been axed. Cancelled flights are far more common in some UK airports than others. And now, flight compensation site AirAdvisor has looked at data from the Civil Aviation Authority to reveal the cancellation rates across 20 of the UK's biggest airports in 2025. It also compared it to their rates in 2024 to figure out where cancellations are easing, and where they're getting worse."
"Luton Airport ranked second in the UK for the fewest cancellations in 2025. Only 0.34 percent of its flights were cancelled in the period analysed, which is far less than the national average of 1.09 percent and a slight decrease compared to its 2024 rate of 0.5 percent. Just below in third place was Stansted Airport with a cancellation rate of just 0.41 percent in 2025. That's less than one in every 200 scheduled flights that were called off. Such a stellar track record is especially good news for Stansted, which is currently undergoing a huge expansion project with ambitions to overtake Gatwick (which had a cancellation rate of 0.8 percent) as the UK's second busiest airport."
AirAdvisor analysed Civil Aviation Authority data for 20 major UK airports to calculate 2025 cancellation rates and compare them to 2024. The national cancellation rate in the analysed period was 1.09 percent. Luton recorded a 0.34 percent cancellation rate in 2025, down from 0.5 percent in 2024, ranking second-lowest in the UK. Stansted recorded a 0.41 percent cancellation rate, placing third. Gatwick had a 0.8 percent cancellation rate. Cancellation rates fell across most London hubs; Heathrow slightly improved by 0.29 percent while London City, despite one of the higher rates, improved by 1.42 percent year-on-year.
Read at Time Out London
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