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Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)

Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS, LFLL) serves Lyon, France. Flights leaving LYS left an average of 16.9 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 60th least delayed of 88 busy European airports. 10.7 million passengers used it in the twelve months to February 2026, most often flying to or from Paris.

Delays at LYS

Average departure delay per flight: 16.9 min over the twelve months to July 2026. Delays were worst in July (23.4 min) and lightest in March (11.7 min).

Average departure delay per flight from LYS, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
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MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
August 202520.2 min3,831
September 202519.1 min4,198
October 202515.6 min4,260
November 202512.4 min3,398
December 202517.6 min3,832
January 202619.8 min3,531
February 202615.2 min3,439
March 202611.7 min3,827
April 202614.4 min3,878
May 202614.3 min3,901
June 202618.5 min4,069
July 202623.4 min4,071

Air traffic flow restrictions held 0.0% of arrivals at LYS for more than 15 minutes in the twelve months to August 2026, most often because of air traffic control (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.

Passengers at LYS

10,665,502 passengers used LYS in the twelve months to February 2026, on 87,053 commercial flights.

Passengers by month at LYS, arrivals and departures together.
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MonthPassengersFlights
March 2025852,1027,232
April 2025926,3357,337
May 2025969,0967,636
June 2025981,1847,949
July 2025985,6487,793
August 20251,009,8797,211
September 2025922,8807,953
October 2025975,0778,008
November 2025723,1676,353
December 2025817,4496,950
January 2026751,1106,434
February 2026751,5756,197

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

Busiest routes from LYS

  1. Paris (CDG)559,818 passengers
  2. Bordeaux-Mérignac (BOD)369,273 passengers
  3. Nantes Atlantique (NTE)332,435 passengers
  4. Lisbon (LIS)318,780 passengers
  5. Frankfurt am Main (FRA)312,513 passengers
  6. Porto (OPO)301,345 passengers
  7. London Gatwick (LGW)297,849 passengers
  8. Tunis Carthage (TUN)296,773 passengers
  9. Barcelona (BCN)279,342 passengers
  10. Rome (FCO)272,402 passengers

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

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Lyon (LYS)?
Flights leaving LYS left an average of 16.9 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 60th least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at LYS?
July 2026, when flights left an average of 23.4 minutes late; the lightest month was March 2026 (11.7 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at LYS?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At LYS in the last year the biggest cause was air traffic control (96% of those minutes), then airport capacity (4%).

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