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Edinburgh Airport (EDI)

Edinburgh Airport (EDI, EGPH) serves Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Flights leaving EDI left an average of 16.5 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 52nd least delayed of 88 busy European airports.

Delays at EDI

Average departure delay per flight: 16.5 min over the twelve months to July 2026. Delays were worst in June (22.7 min) and lightest in April (10.1 min).

Average departure delay per flight from EDI, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
See the figures
MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
August 202521.8 min6,138
September 202520.0 min5,912
October 202517.0 min5,718
November 202513.0 min4,405
December 202516.6 min4,479
January 202614.0 min3,858
February 202611.3 min3,926
March 202613.4 min4,823
April 202610.1 min5,432
May 202612.7 min6,032
June 202622.7 min6,104
July 202620.0 min6,385

Air traffic flow restrictions held 0.8% of arrivals at EDI for more than 15 minutes in the twelve months to August 2026, most often because of air traffic control (86% 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.

Busiest routes from EDI

  1. Dublin (DUB)739,476 passengers
  2. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)685,566 passengers
  3. Paris (CDG)453,664 passengers
  4. Tenerife South (TFS)349,531 passengers
  5. Copenhagen Kastrup (CPH)273,196 passengers
  6. Frankfurt am Main (FRA)256,274 passengers
  7. Alicante (ALC)250,273 passengers
  8. Madrid (MAD)221,112 passengers
  9. Berlin Brandenburg (BER)211,766 passengers
  10. Barcelona (BCN)211,203 passengers

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

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Edinburgh (EDI)?
Flights leaving EDI left an average of 16.5 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 52nd least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at EDI?
June 2026, when flights left an average of 22.7 minutes late; the lightest month was April 2026 (10.1 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at EDI?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At EDI in the last year the biggest cause was air traffic control (86% of those minutes), then airport capacity (7%).

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