How reliable is Farnborough Airport?
Flights from FAB avoided significant airline-controlled delay in 60% of 5 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 FAB looks like
Avoided 15+ min controlled delay
across 5 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 FAB 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 Farnborough Airport.
The read on FAB
What the numbers say about flying through Farnborough Airport
Across official performance history, flights from Farnborough avoided significant airline-controlled delay about 60% of the time over 5 flights. That's a shaky record worth planning around. Pair it with a low cancellation rate of 0.0%, so flights here rarely vanish outright. When a departure does run late, the typical delay is around 18 minutes.
None of this guarantees your specific flight — it’s the backdrop. To turn it into a booking, score real flights to Farnborough, 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 FAB
- How reliable is Farnborough Airport (FAB)?
- Flights from Farnborough avoided significant airline-controlled delay roughly 60% of the time across 5 flights of official history — a shaky record worth planning around. The cancellation rate runs about 0.0%. It's advisory context, not a guarantee for any single flight.
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