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🇪🇸 Arrecife, Spain

Lanzarote Airport (ACE)

Lanzarote Airport (ACE, GCRR) serves Arrecife, Spain. Flights leaving ACE left an average of 16.5 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 53rd least delayed of 88 busy European airports. 8.9 million passengers used it in the twelve months to March 2026, most often flying to or from Gran Canaria.

Delays at ACE

Average departure delay per flight: 16.5 min over the twelve months to July 2026. Delays were worst in March (22.3 min) and lightest in April (12.9 min).

Average departure delay per flight from ACE, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
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MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
August 202516.5 min3,178
September 202515.7 min2,885
October 202514.6 min2,997
November 202519.6 min3,030
December 202518.7 min3,100
January 202617.7 min2,877
February 202614.0 min2,748
March 202622.3 min3,138
April 202612.9 min2,796
May 202613.6 min2,774
June 202614.0 min2,802
July 202616.8 min3,113

Air traffic flow restrictions held 2.2% of arrivals at ACE for more than 15 minutes in the twelve months to August 2026, most often because of weather (74% of those delay minutes).

Departure delay counts every cause, from the airline to air traffic control, and is measured against the scheduled time. Source: EUROCONTROL Aviation Intelligence Portal, summarised by TripStow. EUROCONTROL does not endorse TripStow.

Passengers at ACE

8,895,966 passengers used ACE in the twelve months to March 2026, on 70,631 commercial flights.

Passengers by month at ACE, arrivals and departures together.
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MonthPassengersFlights
April 2025742,8055,822
May 2025686,6485,636
June 2025712,4225,522
July 2025796,3946,167
August 2025823,0646,336
September 2025706,4605,722
October 2025759,6925,859
November 2025748,7215,990
December 2025717,3316,147
January 2026702,0985,708
February 2026707,8075,465
March 2026792,5246,257

Eurostat publishes airport figures a few months behind. Source: Eurostat (CC BY 4.0), summarised by TripStow.

Busiest routes from ACE

  1. Gran Canaria (LPA)851,589 passengers
  2. Madrid (MAD)645,396 passengers
  3. Manchester (MAN)552,440 passengers
  4. London Gatwick (LGW)500,257 passengers
  5. Dublin (DUB)476,266 passengers
  6. Tenerife Norte (TFN)427,136 passengers
  7. London Stansted (STN)281,531 passengers
  8. Barcelona (BCN)274,737 passengers
  9. Birmingham (BHX)265,518 passengers
  10. Bristol (BRS)265,251 passengers

Passengers in 2024, both directions together. Source: Eurostat (CC BY 4.0), summarised by TripStow.

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Arrecife (ACE)?
Flights leaving ACE left an average of 16.5 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 53rd least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at ACE?
March 2026, when flights left an average of 22.3 minutes late; the lightest month was April 2026 (12.9 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at ACE?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At ACE in the last year the biggest cause was weather (74% of those minutes), then air traffic control (24%).

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