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London City Airport (LCY)

London City Airport (LCY, EGLC) serves London, United Kingdom. Flights leaving LCY left an average of 15.1 min late in the twelve months to June 2026, the 43rd least delayed of 88 busy European airports.

Delays at LCY

Average departure delay per flight: 15.1 min over the twelve months to June 2026. Delays were worst in June (22.7 min) and lightest in November (9.8 min).

Average departure delay per flight from LCY, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
See the figures
MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
July 202521.0 min2,201
August 202516.6 min2,059
September 202521.2 min2,295
October 202513.3 min2,353
November 20259.8 min2,123
December 202515.2 min2,026
January 202611.1 min1,754
February 202611.1 min1,897
March 202613.3 min2,219
April 20269.9 min2,052
May 202614.6 min2,043
June 202622.7 min2,124

Air traffic flow restrictions held 0.8% of arrivals at LCY for more than 15 minutes in the twelve months to August 2026, most often because of weather (96% 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 LCY

  1. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)566,258 passengers
  2. Dublin (DUB)267,760 passengers
  3. Milano Linate (LIN)262,062 passengers
  4. Frankfurt am Main (FRA)234,834 passengers
  5. Berlin Brandenburg (BER)198,503 passengers
  6. Luxemburg (LUX)162,587 passengers
  7. Florence (FLR)125,617 passengers
  8. Rotterdam The Hague (RTM)118,538 passengers
  9. Ibiza (IBZ)98,050 passengers
  10. Rome (FCO)86,906 passengers

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

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at London (LCY)?
Flights leaving LCY left an average of 15.1 min late in the twelve months to June 2026, the 43rd least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at LCY?
June 2026, when flights left an average of 22.7 minutes late; the lightest month was November 2025 (9.8 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at LCY?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At LCY in the last year the biggest cause was weather (96% of those minutes), then airport capacity (4%).

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