LSI to ABZ flight delays
1,920 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · UK Civil Aviation Authority
72.28%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
3.8%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
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When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
20 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 43.2 points more punctual than in November — 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.
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 3.8% 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 route has been getting worse. The later months run 16.1 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.
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 LSI to ABZ. Flights ran closest to schedule in August and worst in November.
Every airline on LSI to ABZ
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 | 1,919 | 72.26% | 3.8% | — | D |
| KLM Cityhopper | 1 | 100% | 0% | — | — |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
ABZ to LSI Aberdeen back to Lerwick 76.47% on time COther routes from Lerwick
Common questions
Are flights from Lerwick to Aberdeen usually delayed?
72.28% of flights on the LSI to ABZ 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 airlines fly from Lerwick to Aberdeen?
Only Loganair appears in the published record on this route, with 1,919 flights and 72.26% arriving on time.
How often are LSI to ABZ flights cancelled?
3.8% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 38 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
What is the best month to fly Lerwick to Aberdeen?
April, when 91.7% of flights arrived on time. The worst was November at 48.5%.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on LSI to ABZ 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 →