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🇧🇪 Charleroi, Belgium

Brussels South Charleroi Airport (CRL)

Brussels South Charleroi Airport (CRL, EBCI) serves Charleroi, Belgium. Flights leaving CRL left an average of 12.9 min late in the twelve months to May 2026, the 22nd least delayed of 88 busy European airports. 11.4 million passengers used it in the twelve months to February 2026, most often flying to or from Bucharest.

Delays at CRL

Average departure delay per flight: 12.9 min over the twelve months to May 2026. Delays were worst in July (22.1 min) and lightest in April (6.9 min).

Average departure delay per flight from CRL, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
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MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
June 202515.3 min3,057
July 202522.1 min3,319
August 202514.6 min3,368
September 202515.3 min3,181
October 202514.2 min3,270
November 202510.5 min2,716
December 202510.4 min2,871
January 202617.6 min2,484
February 202611.2 min2,607
March 20267.9 min2,900
April 20266.9 min3,428
May 20268.9 min3,464

Air traffic flow restrictions held 0.1% of arrivals at CRL for more than 15 minutes in the twelve months to August 2026, most often because of air traffic control (72% 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 CRL

11,359,448 passengers used CRL in the twelve months to February 2026, on 67,057 commercial flights.

Passengers by month at CRL, arrivals and departures together.
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MonthPassengersFlights
March 2025840,2185,041
April 2025988,0535,735
May 20251,057,0896,190
June 2025976,9345,730
July 20251,060,1986,209
August 20251,110,5566,333
September 20251,005,2605,968
October 20251,035,1706,065
November 2025838,2525,013
December 2025899,3315,376
January 2026739,3674,546
February 2026809,0204,851

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

Busiest routes from CRL

  1. Bucharest (OTP)343,858 passengers
  2. Tirana (TIA)319,433 passengers
  3. Bergamo (BGY)311,152 passengers
  4. Budapest Liszt Ferenc (BUD)301,684 passengers
  5. Manchester (MAN)271,714 passengers
  6. Istanbul (SAW)261,457 passengers
  7. Alicante (ALC)256,830 passengers
  8. Treviso-Sant'Angelo (TSF)247,785 passengers
  9. Lisbon (LIS)230,946 passengers
  10. Marseille Provence (MRS)218,052 passengers

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

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Charleroi (CRL)?
Flights leaving CRL left an average of 12.9 min late in the twelve months to May 2026, the 22nd least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at CRL?
July 2025, when flights left an average of 22.1 minutes late; the lightest month was April 2026 (6.9 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at CRL?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At CRL in the last year the biggest cause was air traffic control (72% of those minutes), then other causes (22%).

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