EXT to MAN flight delays
365 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · UK Civil Aviation Authority
77.75%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
2.74%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
—
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
13 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 2.74% 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 season swings this route hard. In June it ran 20.5 points more punctual than in December — 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.
The two directions do not behave alike. MAN to EXT arrives on time 6.4 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.
Only Loganair flies this route in the published record, so there is no choice to weigh — the route's figures and the airline's are the same figures.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over March 2025 – August 2026, Loganair arrived on time most often on EXT to MAN. Flights ran closest to schedule in June and worst in December.
Every airline on EXT 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loganair | 365 | 77.75% | 2.74% | — | C |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
MAN to EXT Manchester back to Exeter 71.35% on time DOther routes from Exeter
- EXT → JER · St. Peter D
- EXT → EDI · Ingliston C
- EXT → NCL · Newcastle upon Tyne B
- EXT → AMS · Amsterdam D
- EXT → BHD · Belfast D
- EXT → GCI · Saint Peter Port F
- EXT → PMI · Palma de Mallorca B
- EXT → ALC · Alicante D
- EXT → DUB · Dublin D
- EXT → AGP · Málaga F
- EXT → ACE · San Bartolomé A
- EXT → TFS · Tenerife B
Common questions
Are flights from Exeter to Manchester usually delayed?
77.75% of flights on the EXT to MAN route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 2 in every ten arrived late. That is about the same as the average route in this record.
Which airlines fly from Exeter to Manchester?
Only Loganair appears in the published record on this route, with 365 flights and 77.75% arriving on time.
How often are EXT to MAN flights cancelled?
2.74% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 27 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
What is the best month to fly Exeter to Manchester?
June, when 84.1% of flights arrived on time. The worst was December at 63.6%.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on EXT to MAN 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 →