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Liège flight delays: the record, day by day

Eurocontrol attributes air-traffic delay to Liège on the days it happens, with the cause. On its 25 worst days since 2019 the airport lost 8,949 minutes of arrival delay, mostly to weather and other. Days with nothing logged are a strong point for any passenger whose flight was late for another reason.

Was your Liège flight 3 hours late?

The day the flight was due to leave, in local time where it left. For an overnight flight, that is the evening you set off.

Same flight number twice that day? Add the departure code

Free. No account. The airline is not contacted.

Worst days on record

DateDelay minLateCause
22 January 20231,0772Weather
4 November 20258018Other
5 November 20256876Other
23 November 202153615Weather
25 January 202252113Weather
20 January 202045714Weather
22 January 202044313Weather
10 January 201941714Weather
10 November 202041410Weather
12 June 202038510Weather
8 February 201938411ATC staffing
15 July 202137111Weather
23 January 202033211Weather
4 December 20192507Weather
21 January 20202445Weather

Most recent days with delay logged

DateDelay minLateCause
23 September 202650Aerodrome capacity
22 September 202620Aerodrome capacity
2 June 2026931Industrial action (ATC)
5 November 20256876Other
4 November 20258018Other
5 November 2024271Weather
22 January 20231,0772Weather
26 January 2022150Weather
25 January 202252113Weather
17 January 2022922Weather
15 January 202270Weather
14 January 20221373Weather
12 January 2022641Weather
10 January 20222406Weather
25 November 20212034Weather

Data to 30 September 2026. Eurocontrol publishes about a month in arrears.

What usually goes wrong at Liège

Weather78%
Other16%
ATC staffing5%
Industrial action (ATC)1%

Share of logged delay minutes across the worst and most recent days shown above. Weather, ATC staffing, ATC capacity and equipment failures are the causes airlines most often plead as extraordinary; airport capacity and unspecified delay are arguable.

Questions

Is a delay at Liège caused by weather always an extraordinary circumstance?

No. The airline must show that the weather actually affected your flight and that it took all reasonable measures. Eurocontrol logs weather delay at Liège on specific days; if your day is not one of them, the weather defence has nothing behind it. If it is, the airline still has to connect it to your flight.

How do I find out if my Liège flight was delayed 3 hours?

Enter the flight number and date in the checker above. It pulls the recorded arrival time, works out the delay against the schedule, and shows what Eurocontrol and the airport weather logged for Liège that day.

Which airlines' passengers can claim after a Liège delay?

Any airline departing Liège is covered by EU261 regardless of nationality. Arrivals are covered when the airline is a UK or EU carrier.

Source: Eurocontrol Performance Review Unit, airport arrival ATFM delay by cause, daily. See also your rights and the compensation calculator.