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GLA to AMS flight delays

Glasgow (GLA) Amsterdam (AMS)

2,016 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · UK Civil Aviation Authority

69.97%

Arrived on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

2.38%

Cancelled

Share of scheduled flights

When late, late by

Average across delayed arrivals

16 min

Delay per flight

Averaged over every flight flown

What the record says about this route

The season swings this route hard. In February it ran 38.7 points more punctual than in September — 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.

Which airline you fly changes the odds here. easyJet arrived on time 8.3 points more often than KLM Cityhopper 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.

This route does worse than its own airport. GLA as a whole runs 10 points more punctual than these flights, which points at something specific to the route — the time of day it is scheduled, or the aircraft that feed it — rather than the airport.

The two directions do not behave alike. AMS to GLA arrives on time 5.6 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.

Which airline should you fly on this route?

Over March 2025 – August 2026, easyJet arrived on time most often on GLA to AMS. KLM Cityhopper was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in February and worst in September.

Every airline on GLA to AMS

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
KLM 1,254 69.63% 3.11% D
KLM Cityhopper 469 67.38% 0% D
easyJet 288 75.7% 1.39% C
easyJet Europe 5 100%

Month by month

Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.

Jan 2025 peak 89 Jun 2026
On-time arrival rate, %

Common questions

Are flights from Glasgow to Amsterdam usually delayed?

69.97% of flights on the GLA to AMS 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 Glasgow to Amsterdam?

easyJet, at 75.7% on time across 288 flights. The least punctual on the route was KLM Cityhopper at 67.38%.

How often are GLA to AMS flights cancelled?

2.38% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 24 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.

What is the best month to fly Glasgow to Amsterdam?

February, when 89.6% of flights arrived on time. The worst was September at 50.9%.

What these figures do and do not tell you

Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on GLA to AMS 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 →