BHX to BCN flight delays
Birmingham (BHX) Barcelona (BCN)
534 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · UK Civil Aviation Authority
61.73%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
0.19%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
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When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
20 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Which airline you fly changes the odds here. Vueling arrived on time 17.9 points more often than Ryanair 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.
This is a late route. Flights from Birmingham to Barcelona miss their scheduled arrival often enough that a tight connection at the far end is a connection at risk.
The two directions do not behave alike. BCN to BHX arrives on time 11.4 points more 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 route does worse than its own airport. BHX as a whole runs 7.1 points more punctual than these flights, which points at something specific to the route — the time of day it is scheduled, or the aircraft that feed it — rather than the airport.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over January 2025 – August 2026, Vueling arrived on time most often on BHX to BCN. Ryanair was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in February and worst in May.
Every airline on BHX to BCN
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 | 252 | 50.79% | 0% | — | F |
| Vueling | 148 | 68.71% | 0.68% | — | D |
| Jet2 | 69 | 76.81% | 0% | — | — |
| easyJet Europe | 43 | 67.44% | 0% | — | — |
| easyJet | 22 | 81.82% | 0% | — | — |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
BCN to BHX Barcelona back to Birmingham 73.08% on time DOther routes from Birmingham
- BHX → BHD · Belfast D
- BHX → DUB · Dublin D
- BHX → BFS · Belfast C
- BHX → AMS · Amsterdam F
- BHX → EDI · Ingliston C
- BHX → ABZ · Aberdeen C
- BHX → CDG · Paris (Roissy-en-France C
- BHX → PMI · Palma de Mallorca F
- BHX → ALC · Alicante D
- BHX → TFS · Tenerife D
- BHX → FRA · Frankfurt am Main D
- BHX → GLA · Glasgow A
Common questions
Are flights from Birmingham to Barcelona usually delayed?
61.73% of flights on the BHX to BCN route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 4 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.
Which airline is most on time from Birmingham to Barcelona?
Vueling, at 68.71% on time across 148 flights. The least punctual on the route was Ryanair at 50.79%.
How often are BHX to BCN flights cancelled?
0.19% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 2 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.
What is the best month to fly Birmingham to Barcelona?
February, when 73.3% of flights arrived on time. The worst was June at 56.1%.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on BHX to BCN during January 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 →