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DLM to BHX flight delays

Dalaman (DLM) Birmingham (BHX)

335 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · UK Civil Aviation Authority

69.76%

Arrived on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

0.3%

Cancelled

Share of scheduled flights

When late, late by

Average across delayed arrivals

14 min

Delay per flight

Averaged over every flight flown

What the record says about this route

Which airline you fly changes the odds here. SunExpress arrived on time 34.3 points more often than Jet2 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. BHX to DLM arrives on time 15.8 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.

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

This is a thin route — 335 flights across the whole period. On a route this infrequent a cancellation is far more costly than the rate suggests, because the next departure may not be the same day.

Which airline should you fly on this route?

Over January 2025 – August 2026, SunExpress arrived on time most often on DLM to BHX. Jet2 was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in March and worst in June.

Every airline on DLM 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
SunExpress 120 92.5% 0% A
Jet2 111 58.18% 0.9% F
TUI Airways 57 54.39% 0%
easyJet 47 57.45% 0%

Month by month

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

Mar 2025 peak 100 Jun 2026
On-time arrival rate, %

Common questions

Are flights from Dalaman to Birmingham usually delayed?

69.76% of flights on the DLM 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 Dalaman to Birmingham?

SunExpress, at 92.5% on time across 120 flights. The least punctual on the route was Jet2 at 58.18%.

How often are DLM to BHX flights cancelled?

0.3% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 3 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.

What these figures do and do not tell you

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