LIS to EDI flight delays
439 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · UK Civil Aviation Authority
51.83%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
0.23%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
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When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
25 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
The season swings this route hard. In April it ran 42.6 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.
Flights from Lisbon to Ingliston arrive late more often than they arrive on time. At this rate lateness is the normal outcome, not the exception, and the schedule is better read as an aspiration than a plan.
The two directions do not behave alike. EDI to LIS arrives on time 22.9 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.
Which airline you fly changes the odds here. easyJet arrived on time 6.8 points more often than Ryanair 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.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over March 2025 – August 2026, easyJet arrived on time most often on LIS to EDI. Ryanair was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in January and worst in July.
Every airline on LIS to EDI
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| easyJet | 219 | 54.13% | 0.46% | — | F |
| Ryanair | 209 | 47.37% | 0% | — | F |
| easyJet Europe | 11 | 90.91% | 0% | — | — |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
EDI to LIS Ingliston back to Lisbon 74.72% on time CCommon questions
Are flights from Lisbon to Ingliston usually delayed?
51.83% of flights on the LIS to EDI route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 5 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.
Which airline is most on time from Lisbon to Ingliston?
easyJet, at 54.13% on time across 219 flights. The least punctual on the route was Ryanair at 47.37%.
How often are LIS to EDI flights cancelled?
0.23% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 2 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.
What is the best month to fly Lisbon to Ingliston?
April, when 72.2% of flights arrived on time. The worst was July at 29.6%.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on LIS to EDI 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 →