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MLA to GLA flight delays

Valletta (MLA) Glasgow (GLA)

238 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · UK Civil Aviation Authority

69.62%

Arrived on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

0.42%

Cancelled

Share of scheduled flights

When late, late by

Average across delayed arrivals

12 min

Delay per flight

Averaged over every flight flown

What the record says about this route

Which airline you fly changes the odds here. Ryanair arrived on time 27 points more often than Jet2 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.

Flights from Valletta to Glasgow run late more often than the average route, though not severely.

This is a thin route — 238 flights across the whole period. On a route this infrequent a cancellation is far more costly than the rate suggests, because the next departure may not be the same day.

Which airline should you fly on this route?

Over March 2025 – August 2026, Ryanair arrived on time most often on MLA to GLA. Jet2 was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in December and worst in July.

Every airline on MLA to GLA

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 131 81.68% 0% B
Jet2 107 54.72% 0.93% F

Month by month

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

Feb 2025 peak 100 Jun 2026
On-time arrival rate, %

Common questions

Are flights from Valletta to Glasgow usually delayed?

69.62% of flights on the MLA to GLA 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 Valletta to Glasgow?

Ryanair, at 81.68% on time across 131 flights. The least punctual on the route was Jet2 at 54.72%.

How often are MLA to GLA flights cancelled?

0.42% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 4 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.

What these figures do and do not tell you

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