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LPL to ALC flight delays

Liverpool (LPL) Alicante (ALC)

1,681 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · UK Civil Aviation Authority

89.57%

Arrived on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

0.18%

Cancelled

Share of scheduled flights

When late, late by

Average across delayed arrivals

8 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 29.9 points more punctual than in January — 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. Jet2 arrived on time 6.6 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.

The two directions do not behave alike. ALC to LPL arrives on time 10.4 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.

Flights from Liverpool to Alicante are among the most dependable in the record. A route this punctual is usually a short hop between airports with slots to spare.

Which airline should you fly on this route?

Over March 2025 – August 2026, Jet2 arrived on time most often on LPL to ALC. Ryanair was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in November and worst in May.

Every airline on LPL to ALC

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
Ryanair 718 87.87% 0.14% A
easyJet 696 89.63% 0.29% A
Jet2 253 94.47% 0% A
easyJet Europe 14 85.71% 0%

Month by month

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

Jan 2025 peak 98 Jun 2026
On-time arrival rate, %

Common questions

Are flights from Liverpool to Alicante usually delayed?

89.57% of flights on the LPL to ALC route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 1 in every ten arrived late. That is better than the average route in this record.

Which airline is most on time from Liverpool to Alicante?

Jet2, at 94.47% on time across 253 flights. The least punctual on the route was Ryanair at 87.87%.

How often are LPL to ALC flights cancelled?

0.18% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 2 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.

What is the best month to fly Liverpool to Alicante?

March, when 98.9% of flights arrived on time. The worst was January at 69%.

What these figures do and do not tell you

Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on LPL to ALC 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 →