EDI to FRA flight delays
Ingliston (EDI) Frankfurt am Main (FRA)
1,255 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · UK Civil Aviation Authority
67.63%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
3.03%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
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When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
15 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
The season swings this route hard. In March it ran 39.5 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.
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 3.03% of scheduled flights never operated. A late flight still gets you there. A cancelled one leaves you rebooking, and on a route with few daily departures that can mean losing a day.
The two directions do not behave alike. FRA to EDI arrives on time 5.9 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 is a late route. Flights from Ingliston to Frankfurt am Main 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 March 2025 – August 2026, Lufthansa arrived on time most often on EDI to FRA. Flights ran closest to schedule in March and worst in July.
Every airline on EDI to FRA
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lufthansa | 1,255 | 67.63% | 3.03% | — | D |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
Common questions
Are flights from Ingliston to Frankfurt am Main usually delayed?
67.63% of flights on the EDI to FRA 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 airlines fly from Ingliston to Frankfurt am Main?
Only Lufthansa appears in the published record on this route, with 1,255 flights and 67.63% arriving on time.
How often are EDI to FRA flights cancelled?
3.03% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 30 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
What is the best month to fly Ingliston to Frankfurt am Main?
March, when 88.4% of flights arrived on time. The worst was July at 48.9%.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on EDI to FRA 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 →