DLM to MAN flight delays
Dalaman (DLM) Manchester (MAN)
616 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · UK Civil Aviation Authority
67.75%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
0.32%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
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When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
18 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 32.4 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. MAN to DLM arrives on time 11.5 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 a late route. Flights from Dalaman to Manchester miss their scheduled arrival often enough that a tight connection at the far end is a connection at risk.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over January 2025 – August 2026, SunExpress arrived on time most often on DLM to MAN. easyJet was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in March and worst in January.
Every airline on DLM to MAN
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| easyJet | 224 | 51.8% | 0.89% | — | F |
| SunExpress | 165 | 84.24% | 0% | — | B |
| Jet2 | 157 | 68.79% | 0% | — | D |
| TUI Airways | 70 | 77.14% | 0% | — | — |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
MAN to DLM Manchester back to Dalaman 56.2% on time FOther routes from Dalaman
Common questions
Are flights from Dalaman to Manchester usually delayed?
67.75% of flights on the DLM to MAN 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 Manchester?
SunExpress, at 84.24% on time across 165 flights. The least punctual on the route was easyJet at 51.8%.
How often are DLM to MAN flights cancelled?
0.32% 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 MAN 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 →