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🇫🇷 Marseille, France

Marseille Provence Airport (MRS)

Marseille Provence Airport (MRS, LFML) serves Marseille, France. Flights leaving MRS left an average of 17.9 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 69th least delayed of 88 busy European airports. 11.1 million passengers used it in the twelve months to February 2026, most often flying to or from Paris.

Delays at MRS

Average departure delay per flight: 17.9 min over the twelve months to July 2026. Delays were worst in July (23.9 min) and lightest in March (11.5 min).

Average departure delay per flight from MRS, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
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MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
August 202522.4 min4,801
September 202521.5 min4,449
October 202518.5 min4,379
November 202516.3 min3,356
December 202515.8 min3,483
January 202616.6 min3,153
February 202614.8 min3,079
March 202611.5 min3,670
April 202614.2 min4,304
May 202615.0 min4,409
June 202620.0 min4,819
July 202623.9 min4,926

Air traffic flow restrictions held 3.2% of arrivals at MRS for more than 15 minutes in the twelve months to August 2026, most often because of air traffic control (59% 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 MRS

11,102,649 passengers used MRS in the twelve months to February 2026, on 84,065 commercial flights.

Passengers by month at MRS, arrivals and departures together.
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MonthPassengersFlights
March 2025780,0216,406
April 20251,035,9487,603
May 20251,073,5548,012
June 20251,078,5237,981
July 20251,113,2158,115
August 20251,189,0198,341
September 2025986,4537,734
October 20251,001,7207,640
November 2025731,2155,747
December 2025768,9315,961
January 2026665,8035,334
February 2026678,2475,191

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

Busiest routes from MRS

  1. Paris (CDG)739,735 passengers
  2. Nantes Atlantique (NTE)403,201 passengers
  3. Paris-Orly (ORY)379,783 passengers
  4. Bordeaux-Mérignac (BOD)357,454 passengers
  5. Algier (ALG)329,658 passengers
  6. Bastia-Poretta (BIA)310,785 passengers
  7. Ajaccio-Napoléon Bonaparte (AJA)297,634 passengers
  8. London Heathrow (LHR)275,549 passengers
  9. Tunis Carthage (TUN)270,581 passengers
  10. Madrid (MAD)261,181 passengers

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

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Marseille (MRS)?
Flights leaving MRS left an average of 17.9 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 69th least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at MRS?
July 2026, when flights left an average of 23.9 minutes late; the lightest month was March 2026 (11.5 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at MRS?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At MRS in the last year the biggest cause was air traffic control (59% of those minutes), then other causes (37%).

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