Manchester (MAN) departure delays
134,335 departures · 206 routes · March 2025 – August 2026
66.07%
Left on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
0.93%
Cancelled
Share of departures
—
When late, late by
Average delayed departure
#122
Rank
Among graded US airports
What the record says about MAN
MAN is one of the later-running airports in the record. When an airport is this congested the cause is usually structural — runway capacity, airspace, or a hub airline scheduling more departures into a peak than the field can clear — and no airline flying from it escapes entirely.
The airlines flying from here are not equally affected. Ethiopian Airlines left on time 61.4 points more often than Aegean Airlines from the same airport — which is the clearest evidence available that a delayed departure is not purely the airport's fault.
With 40 routes in the record, MAN is a hub, and hubs carry a particular risk: a delay early in the day propagates through every aircraft that was due to fly on afterwards. Morning departures from a hub are reliably better than evening ones.
Which airlines run best out of MAN
| Airline | Departures | On time |
|---|---|---|
| Ethiopian Airlines | 494 | 87.8% |
| Virgin Atlantic | 1,810 | 82.2% |
| Icelandair | 458 | 81.6% |
| Emerald Airlines UK | 1,860 | 76.7% |
| Ryanair UK | 6,784 | 76.2% |
| Gulf Air | 342 | 73% |
| Loganair | 6,863 | 72% |
| British Airways | 7,744 | 71.7% |
| Air Transat | 268 | 71.3% |
| Eurowings | 1,515 | 70.3% |
| SAS | 2,212 | 70.2% |
| Ryanair | 31,316 | 70.1% |
| easyJet | 29,714 | 69.7% |
| Etihad Airways | 1,015 | 69.4% |
| Finnair | 947 | 69.1% |
| easyJet Europe | 3,075 | 68% |
| Aer Lingus | 5,774 | 66.6% |
| Qatar Airways | 1,722 | 66.1% |
| Kuwait Airways | 234 | 65.3% |
| Lufthansa | 2,358 | 65.1% |
| Aurigny | 931 | 64.3% |
| Turkish Airlines | 1,957 | 64.1% |
| Singapore Airlines | 460 | 63.5% |
| Corendon Airlines | 224 | 60.3% |
| Emirates | 1,609 | 58.8% |
| SunExpress | 1,597 | 57.7% |
| TUI Airways | 8,881 | 57.3% |
| Vueling | 778 | 56.4% |
| Air France | 1,815 | 56.3% |
| Brussels Airlines | 943 | 56.2% |
| KLM | 3,069 | 54.4% |
| Jet2 | 16,053 | 53.4% |
| Swiss International Air Lines | 1,255 | 47.9% |
| Royal Air Maroc | 263 | 44.3% |
| Aegean Airlines | 237 | 26.4% |