"Travel insurance company Go.Compare looked at data from the Civil Aviation Authority for 25 major UK airports between April 2024 and March 2025. It discovered that one in every 10 flights from Gatwick (12 percent) were delayed between 31 minutes to an hour in that period. For comparison, the average delay time for flights across the UK in that time was 16.9 minutes."
"As for cancelled flights, CAA data shows that around 4,050 were called off at Gatwick between April 2024 and March 2025 (1.5 per cent of all flights). Gatwick has been named the UK's worst airport for flight delays for the last two years. Across all of 2024, its average delay time was 23.6 minutes and in 2023 it was 27 minutes. The long delays can partly be put down to the staff shortages it faced at its control tower during summer 2024."
Civil Aviation Authority data for 25 major UK airports shows one in ten flights from Gatwick (12%) were delayed between 31 and 60 minutes between April 2024 and March 2025. The UK average delay across that period was 16.9 minutes. Gatwick recorded about 4,050 cancellations in that year (1.5% of flights). Gatwick has been the UK's worst airport for delays for two consecutive years, with average delays of 23.6 minutes in 2024 and 27 minutes in 2023. Long delays were partly attributed to control-tower staff shortages during summer 2024. June data showed 24,359 flights, 225 cancellations, and a 19.9-minute average delay.
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