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MLA to NCL flight delays

Valletta (MLA) Newcastle upon Tyne (NCL)

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

69.91%

Arrived on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

0%

Cancelled

Share of scheduled flights

When late, late by

Average across delayed arrivals

15 min

Delay per flight

Averaged over every flight flown

What the record says about this route

The two directions do not behave alike. NCL to MLA arrives on time 10.6 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.

Only Jet2 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.

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

This is a thin route — 226 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, Jet2 arrived on time most often on MLA to NCL. Flights ran closest to schedule in January and worst in October.

Every airline on MLA to NCL

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
Jet2 100 60% 0% D
Ryanair 84 78.57% 0%
easyJet 41 75.61% 0%
TUI Airways 1 100% 0%

Month by month

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

Feb 2025 peak 88 Jun 2026
On-time arrival rate, %

Common questions

Are flights from Valletta to Newcastle upon Tyne usually delayed?

69.91% of flights on the MLA to NCL 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 Valletta to Newcastle upon Tyne?

Only Jet2 appears in the published record on this route, with 100 flights and 60% arriving on time.

How often are MLA to NCL flights cancelled?

0% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 1 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 NCL 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 →