ABZ to AMS flight delays
Aberdeen (ABZ) Amsterdam (AMS)
2,311 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · UK Civil Aviation Authority
77.32%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
4.41%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
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When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
12 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Which airline you fly changes the odds here. KLM Cityhopper arrived on time 18.9 points more often than KLM over the same period on the same route — same airports, same weather, same air traffic control. A gap that survives all of that is about how the two airlines are run.
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 4.41% of scheduled flights never operated. A late flight still gets you there. A cancelled one leaves you rebooking, and on a route with few daily departures that can mean losing a day.
The season swings this route hard. In May it ran 30.6 points more punctual than in January — a difference bigger than the one between the best and worst airlines on most routes. If the date is flexible, it is worth more than the carrier.
The Aberdeen to Amsterdam route sits close to the middle of the record — neither notably punctual nor notably late.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over March 2025 – August 2026, KLM Cityhopper arrived on time most often on ABZ to AMS. KLM was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in April and worst in January.
Every airline on ABZ to AMS
Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Avg delay | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KLM Cityhopper | 1,838 | 80.47% | 0% | — | B |
| KLM | 472 | 61.62% | 21.61% | — | F |
| British Airways | 1 | 100% | 0% | — | — |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
AMS to ABZ Amsterdam back to Aberdeen 79.04% on time CCommon questions
Are flights from Aberdeen to Amsterdam usually delayed?
77.32% of flights on the ABZ to AMS route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 2 in every ten arrived late. That is about the same as the average route in this record.
Which airline is most on time from Aberdeen to Amsterdam?
KLM Cityhopper, at 80.47% on time across 1,838 flights. The least punctual on the route was KLM at 61.62%.
How often are ABZ to AMS flights cancelled?
4.41% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 44 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
What is the best month to fly Aberdeen to Amsterdam?
May, when 88.9% of flights arrived on time. The worst was January at 58.3%.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on ABZ to AMS during March 2025 – August 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.
A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.
Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →