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BER to LCY flight delays

Berlin (BER) London (LCY)

1,466 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · UK Civil Aviation Authority

78.67%

Arrived on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

1.84%

Cancelled

Share of scheduled flights

When late, late by

Average across delayed arrivals

11 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 40.6 points more punctual than in February — 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 route has been getting worse. The later months run 8.9 points less punctual than the earlier ones. A drift of that size is rarely weather; it is more often an airline adding frequencies faster than the airports can absorb them.

The two directions do not behave alike. LCY to BER arrives on time 5.4 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.

Only BA CityFlyer flies this route in the published record, so there is no choice to weigh — the route's figures and the airline's are the same figures.

Which airline should you fly on this route?

Over March 2025 – August 2026, BA CityFlyer arrived on time most often on BER to LCY. Flights ran closest to schedule in April and worst in February.

Every airline on BER to LCY

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
BA CityFlyer 1,466 78.67% 1.84% C

Month by month

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

Jan 2025 peak 92 Jun 2026
On-time arrival rate, %

Common questions

Are flights from Berlin to London usually delayed?

78.67% of flights on the BER to LCY 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 airlines fly from Berlin to London?

Only BA CityFlyer appears in the published record on this route, with 1,466 flights and 78.67% arriving on time.

How often are BER to LCY flights cancelled?

1.84% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 18 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.

What is the best month to fly Berlin to London?

April, when 92.1% of flights arrived on time. The worst was February at 51.5%.

What these figures do and do not tell you

Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on BER to LCY 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 →