FRA to BHX flight delays
Frankfurt am Main (FRA) Birmingham (BHX)
688 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · UK Civil Aviation Authority
83.06%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
1.31%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
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When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
7 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
The route has been getting worse. The later months run 9.9 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. BHX to FRA arrives on time 9.9 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 Lufthansa 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.
Flights from Frankfurt am Main to Birmingham keep to schedule more reliably than most. On a route this punctual the day you fly matters more than the airline you pick.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over January 2025 – August 2026, Lufthansa arrived on time most often on FRA to BHX. Flights ran closest to schedule in April and worst in June.
Every airline on FRA 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lufthansa | 687 | 83.19% | 1.31% | — | B |
| Smartwings | 1 | 0% | 0% | — | — |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
Common questions
Are flights from Frankfurt am Main to Birmingham usually delayed?
83.06% of flights on the FRA to BHX 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 Frankfurt am Main to Birmingham?
Only Lufthansa appears in the published record on this route, with 687 flights and 83.19% arriving on time.
How often are FRA to BHX flights cancelled?
1.31% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 13 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.
What is the best month to fly Frankfurt am Main to Birmingham?
April, when 90.8% of flights arrived on time. The worst was June at 74.2%.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on FRA 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 →