Data from the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority found that Stansted was the worst UK airport for delays in 2018, with passengers at the country’s fourth-busiest hub experiencing an average delay of 25 minutes.
The data revealed that Belfast City Airport had the best on-time performance, with an average delay of eight minutes, followed closely by Liverpool at ten minutes. Doncaster Sheffield, Exeter and Bournemouth all had delays of 12 minutes. Birmingham and Luton were the joint second-worst hubs with average delays of 19 minutes.
Flights across all the airports listed in the CAA data suffered delays with an overall average of 16 minutes.