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Newcastle Airport (NCL)

Newcastle Airport (NCL, EGNT) serves Newcastle, United Kingdom. Flights leaving NCL left an average of 12.2 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 17th least delayed of 88 busy European airports.

Delays at NCL

Average departure delay per flight: 12.2 min over the twelve months to July 2026. Delays were worst in September (16.7 min) and lightest in March (6.7 min).

Average departure delay per flight from NCL, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
See the figures
MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
August 202513.9 min2,203
September 202516.7 min2,097
October 202512.4 min2,059
November 20259.8 min1,521
December 20259.1 min1,488
January 202614.0 min1,240
February 20267.4 min1,255
March 20266.7 min1,589
April 20267.8 min1,811
May 202612.2 min2,177
June 202615.0 min2,106
July 202616.6 min2,201

Air traffic flow restrictions held 0.4% of arrivals at NCL for more than 15 minutes in the twelve months to August 2026, most often because of air traffic control (100% 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 NCL

  1. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)375,186 passengers
  2. Alicante (ALC)302,911 passengers
  3. Tenerife South (TFS)281,855 passengers
  4. Palma De Mallorca (PMI)269,215 passengers
  5. Dublin (DUB)205,809 passengers
  6. Malaga (AGP)174,683 passengers
  7. Arrecife (ACE)172,254 passengers
  8. Paris (CDG)135,878 passengers
  9. Faro (FAO)124,035 passengers
  10. Gran Canaria (LPA)114,736 passengers

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

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Newcastle (NCL)?
Flights leaving NCL left an average of 12.2 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 17th least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at NCL?
September 2025, when flights left an average of 16.7 minutes late; the lightest month was March 2026 (6.7 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at NCL?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At NCL in the last year the biggest cause was air traffic control (100% of those minutes).

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