EDI to LSI flight delays
350 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · UK Civil Aviation Authority
82.06%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
2.86%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
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When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
10 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 29.4 points more punctual than in June — 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: 2.86% 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 route has been getting worse. The later months run 12.4 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. LSI to EDI arrives on time 7.1 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.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over January 2025 – August 2026, Loganair arrived on time most often on EDI to LSI. Flights ran closest to schedule in March and worst in January.
Every airline on EDI to LSI
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loganair | 350 | 82.06% | 2.86% | — | C |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
LSI to EDI Lerwick back to Ingliston 75% on time DCommon questions
Are flights from Ingliston to Lerwick usually delayed?
82.06% of flights on the EDI to LSI route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 2 in every ten arrived late. That is better than the average route in this record.
Which airlines fly from Ingliston to Lerwick?
Only Loganair appears in the published record on this route, with 350 flights and 82.06% arriving on time.
How often are EDI to LSI flights cancelled?
2.86% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 29 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 Lerwick?
March, when 96.1% of flights arrived on time. The worst was June at 66.7%.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on EDI to LSI 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 →