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London Traffic Grows, but Delays Grow Twice as Fast

Written by Aviation Advocacy on . Posted in Air traffic management

The UK CAA has reported traffic stats for August 2015. The five London airports handled more than 96,000 arrivals and departures, an increase of 4.8% over August 2014.  Well done, you might think. But, more than 30,000 of these flights were delayed by 15 minutes or more.  This is an increase of more than 11% on the number of flights delayed in August 2014.  Not so well done, then. This demonstrates a rule of thumb for constrained airports: every new flight scheduled into a constrained airport will be delayed; and it will, in turn, delay at least one existing flight that had previously been operating on time.

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