Barcelona delays on Thursday, 2 November 2023
Eurocontrol logged 1,237 minutes of air-traffic arrival delay at Barcelona that day across 20 arrivals held 15 minutes or more out of 433 (5% of the day's arrivals), with 40% of the delay attributed to environmental issues. That makes it the 192nd worst day at Barcelona since January 2019.
Eurocontrol record · LEBL · 2023-11-02
Delay codes are Eurocontrol's IATA-standard causes. 59% of this day's delay sits in categories airlines usually plead as extraordinary circumstances.
Were you on a flight that day?
What this means if your flight was late
Under UK261 and EU261 you are owed £220, £350 or £520 (or €250, €400, €600) per passenger for arriving three hours or more late, unless the airline proves extraordinary circumstances that could not have been avoided even with all reasonable measures. Airport-wide records like this one are the airline's favourite evidence, and they cut both ways.
- The usual defences have little behind them on this day. The logged cause was environmental issues, which is arguable at best. A refusal citing weather or air traffic control should be answered with this record.
- Cancelled that day? Compensation depends on notice: under 14 days and no close re-routing means it is due, subject to the same extraordinary-circumstances test. You are always owed a refund or re-routing and care while you wait.
- Delayed under three hours? No fixed compensation, but food, drink and communications were owed after two hours on a short flight, and reasonable expenses are recoverable.
The free check pulls your flight's own record (actual arrival time against schedule) and pairs it with this day's data, so the verdict and the letter are specific to your flight, not to the airport.
Other airports the same day
| Oslo Gardermoen | 6,289 min | Weather |
| Istanbul | 5,953 min | Weather |
| London Heathrow | 2,990 min | Weather |
| Lanzarote | 2,182 min | Industrial action (ATC) |
| Vienna | 2,012 min | Weather |
| Málaga | 1,767 min | Special event |
| Lisbon | 1,722 min | Aerodrome capacity |
| London Stansted | 1,403 min | Weather |
| Paris Charles de Gaulle | 1,200 min | Weather |
Other bad days at Barcelona
| 29 September 2026 | 20,508 min | Weather |
| 3 November 2024 | 20,406 min | Weather |
| 21 September 2019 | 20,057 min | Weather |
| 4 November 2024 | 19,847 min | Weather |
| 4 September 2024 | 15,618 min | Weather |
| 21 September 2025 | 14,993 min | Weather |
| 28 August 2025 | 12,750 min | Weather |
| 27 August 2023 | 12,422 min | Weather |
Questions
My flight from Barcelona on 2 November 2023 was delayed. Can I claim compensation?
If you arrived at your final destination 3 hours or more late, the starting position is £220 to £520 per passenger depending on distance. The airline can refuse only by proving extraordinary circumstances that affected your specific flight. Eurocontrol's record for this day does not show the kind of cause airlines usually plead, so a refusal on those grounds would be weak. Run the free check on your flight number for the verified answer.
Was the Barcelona disruption on 2 November 2023 caused by weather?
Partly or wholly: 27% of the 1,237 logged minutes were coded as weather. The airport's own weather observations that day show no significant phenomena, lowest visibility 9994 m and strongest gust 33 kt.
Does a bad day at Barcelona mean every delayed flight is exempt from compensation?
No. Air-traffic delay attributed to an airport explains some of the day's lateness, not all of it, and it is the airline that must prove your flight's delay was caused by it and could not have been avoided with reasonable measures such as schedule buffers and spare aircraft. Flights delayed by a technical fault, crew shortage or a late inbound aircraft from an unaffected airport are compensable regardless of what happened at Barcelona.
Sources: Eurocontrol Performance Review Unit, airport arrival ATFM delay by cause (daily); METAR observations via the Iowa Environmental Mesonet archive. This page describes the airport's day; your flight's own record decides your claim. All Barcelona delay days.