Which airlines are the worst for delays and cancellations in Europe in 2025?
The company
Flightright
, which publishes information related to flight disruptions and compensation in Europe, has released its ranking of the airlines with the most delays, based on the first few months of 2025.
The company focused on the 20 airlines with the highest number of departures from European airports. Then, the company ranked airlines based on the highest number of delays (meaning at least 15 minutes late upon arrival).
Overall, they found that all 20 airlines had at least 10 percent of their flights delayed by this metric.
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Here is their ranking, from the highest number of delays to the lowest.
TAP Portugal (37.14 percent of flights were delayed at least 15 minutes)
Air France (22.65 percent)
Swiss International (22.42 percent)
Finnair (20.95 percent)
Ryanair (20.73 percent)
Easyjet (20.63 percent)
KLM (19.68 percent)
Buzz (17.41 percent)
British Airways (16.91 percent)
Vueling (16.71 percent)
Norwegian Air Shuttle (16.61 percent)
Aegean Airlines (16.54 percent)
ITA Airways (15.71 percent)
Eurowings (14.59 percent)
Lufthansa (12.68 percent)
SAS (12.38 percent)
Aer Lingus (11.44 percent)
Iberia (10.78 percent)
Austrian (10.75 percent)
Wizz Air (10.23 percent)
As for cancellations, the company also ranked airlines from worst to best. While none of the airlines saw more than four percent of their flights cancelled, Finnair performed the worst with 3.35 percent of its flights cancelled.
After that, KLM had 2.04 percent of its flights cancelled, and British Airways took third place with 1.58 percent of its flights cancelled. All other airlines had less than two percent of flights cancelled.
Thanks to EU regulation, passengers are entitled to compensation for delayed flights and cancellations, which are proportional to the flight distance, as long as the delay or cancellation was not due to 'extraordinary circumstances'.
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