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ALC to BHX flight delays

Alicante (ALC) Birmingham (BHX)

1,804 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · UK Civil Aviation Authority

71.67%

Arrived on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

0.22%

Cancelled

Share of scheduled flights

When late, late by

Average across delayed arrivals

17 min

Delay per flight

Averaged over every flight flown

What the record says about this route

Which airline you fly changes the odds here. easyJet arrived on time 22 points more often than TUI Airways 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.

The season swings this route hard. In February it ran 34 points more punctual than in June — 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.

Flights from Alicante to Birmingham run late more often than the average route, though not severely.

Which airline should you fly on this route?

Over March 2025 – August 2026, easyJet arrived on time most often on ALC to BHX. TUI Airways was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in February and worst in July.

Every airline on ALC to BHX

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
Ryanair 906 73.12% 0.22% C
Jet2 527 66.73% 0.19% D
easyJet 244 81.07% 0.41% B
TUI Airways 110 59.09% 0% D
easyJet Europe 17 94.12% 0%

Month by month

Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.

Jan 2025 peak 88 Jun 2026
On-time arrival rate, %

Common questions

Are flights from Alicante to Birmingham usually delayed?

71.67% of flights on the ALC to BHX route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 3 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.

Which airline is most on time from Alicante to Birmingham?

easyJet, at 81.07% on time across 244 flights. The least punctual on the route was TUI Airways at 59.09%.

How often are ALC to BHX flights cancelled?

0.22% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 2 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.

What is the best month to fly Alicante to Birmingham?

February, when 88.6% of flights arrived on time. The worst was June at 54.6%.

What these figures do and do not tell you

Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on ALC to BHX 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 →