How reliable is East Midlands Airport?
Flights from EMA avoided significant airline-controlled delay in 78% of 54,556 flights in official UK CAA history. Here’s the full picture before you book.
Reliability score
on-time, cancellations & delays
Origin-airport operations
What the airline-controlled delay record at EMA looks like
Avoided 15+ min controlled delay
across 54,556 flights
Source: UK CAA. Origin-grouped, cause-attributed operational history; it is not a direct departure-punctuality measure or a guarantee for any flight.
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Weather by month
Weather history isn’t available for EMA yet
PlaneSane shows month-by-month airport weather once enough historical METAR/IEM observations are loaded for the airport. This does not mean the airport has no weather data forever; it means the current climatology table has no monthly coverage for East Midlands Airport.
The read on EMA
What the numbers say about flying through East Midlands Airport
Across official performance history, flights from East Midlands avoided significant airline-controlled delay about 78% of the time over 54,556 flights. That's a respectable but unspectacular operational record. Pair it with a low cancellation rate of 0.4%, so flights here rarely vanish outright. When a departure does run late, the typical delay is around 13 minutes.
None of this guarantees your specific flight — it’s the backdrop. To turn it into a booking, score real flights to East Midlands, read how we weigh it all in how the PlaneSane Score works, and brush up with how to pick a reliable flight and avoiding weather delays.
Common questions about EMA
- How reliable is East Midlands Airport (EMA)?
- Flights from East Midlands avoided significant airline-controlled delay roughly 78% of the time across 54,556 flights of official history — a respectable but unspectacular operational record. The cancellation rate runs about 0.4%. It's advisory context, not a guarantee for any single flight.
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