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NCE to MAN flight delays

Nice (NCE) Manchester (MAN)

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

37.53%

Arrived on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

0.67%

Cancelled

Share of scheduled flights

When late, late by

Average across delayed arrivals

42 min

Delay per flight

Averaged over every flight flown

What the record says about this route

Which airline you fly changes the odds here. easyJet arrived on time 24.1 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.

The season swings this route hard. In March it ran 73.2 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 Nice to Manchester 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. MAN to NCE arrives on time 22.2 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 should you fly on this route?

Over March 2025 – August 2026, easyJet arrived on time most often on NCE to MAN. Jet2 was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in November and worst in July.

Every airline on NCE to MAN

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 279 42.24% 0.72% F
Jet2 127 18.11% 0% F
easyJet Europe 42 65.85% 2.38%

Month by month

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

Jan 2025 peak 91 Jun 2026
On-time arrival rate, %

Common questions

Are flights from Nice to Manchester usually delayed?

37.53% of flights on the NCE to MAN route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 6 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.

Which airline is most on time from Nice to Manchester?

easyJet, at 42.24% on time across 279 flights. The least punctual on the route was Jet2 at 18.11%.

How often are NCE to MAN flights cancelled?

0.67% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 7 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.

What is the best month to fly Nice to Manchester?

March, when 79.3% of flights arrived on time. The worst was July at 6.1%.

What these figures do and do not tell you

Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on NCE to MAN 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 →