SOU to BCN flight delays
Southampton (SOU) Barcelona (BCN)
10 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · UK Civil Aviation Authority
This route flew fewer than 50 times in the period, which is too few for an on-time rate to mean anything. The figures below are shown as recorded, but the route is not graded.
44.44%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
10%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
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When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
27 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 10% 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.
Flights from Southampton to Barcelona 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.
This route does worse than its own airport. SOU as a whole runs 32.1 points more punctual than these flights, which points at something specific to the route — the time of day it is scheduled, or the aircraft that feed it — rather than the airport.
The two directions do not behave alike. BCN to SOU arrives on time 11.1 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.
Every airline on SOU to BCN
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 | 10 | 44.44% | 10% | — | — |
The return leg
BCN to SOU Barcelona back to Southampton 55.56% on time —Other routes from Southampton
Common questions
Are flights from Southampton to Barcelona usually delayed?
44.44% of flights on the SOU to BCN 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.
How often are SOU to BCN flights cancelled?
10% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 100 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on SOU to BCN during January 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 →