BCN to LGW flight delays
5,401 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · UK Civil Aviation Authority
78.72%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
0.81%
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
The season swings this route hard. In April it ran 29.6 points more punctual than in July — 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.
Which airline you fly changes the odds here. Vueling arrived on time 6.5 points more often than easyJet 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 two directions do not behave alike. LGW to BCN arrives on time 10.5 points less often than the outbound. Delay accumulates through the flying day, so whichever direction is scheduled later tends to carry the worse record — which is an argument for booking the morning departure if the choice exists.
This is one of the heavily flown routes in the record — 5,401 flights in the period. Frequency is itself a form of insurance: when a flight goes wrong there is another one within hours, which is not true of the thin routes elsewhere on this site.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over March 2025 – August 2026, Vueling arrived on time most often on BCN to LGW. easyJet was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in April and worst in July.
Every airline on BCN to LGW
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vueling | 3,509 | 81.47% | 0.8% | — | B |
| easyJet | 1,838 | 74.96% | 0.27% | — | C |
| TUI Airways | 29 | 10.34% | 0% | — | — |
| easyJet Europe | 11 | — | 100% | — | — |
| BA Euroflyer | 11 | 9.09% | 0% | — | — |
| Loganair | 1 | 100% | 0% | — | — |
| Turkish Airlines | 1 | 100% | 0% | — | — |
| Brussels Airlines | 1 | 100% | 0% | — | — |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
LGW to BCN London back to Barcelona 68.23% on time DOther routes from Barcelona
Common questions
Are flights from Barcelona to London usually delayed?
78.72% of flights on the BCN to LGW 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 Barcelona to London?
Vueling, at 81.47% on time across 3,509 flights. The least punctual on the route was easyJet at 74.96%.
How often are BCN to LGW flights cancelled?
0.81% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 8 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.
What is the best month to fly Barcelona to London?
April, when 91.4% of flights arrived on time. The worst was July at 61.8%.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on BCN to LGW 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 →