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Manchester delays on Sunday, 3 November 2024

Eurocontrol logged 318 minutes of air-traffic arrival delay at Manchester that day across 9 arrivals held 15 minutes or more out of 283 (3% of the day's arrivals), with 100% of the delay attributed to aerodrome capacity. That makes it the 199th worst day at Manchester since January 2019.

Eurocontrol record · EGCC · 2024-11-03

ATFM arrival delay318 min
Arrivals held 15+ min9 of 283
Aerodrome capacity318 min · 100%
Weather observed (METAR)CLEAR
Lowest visibility · max gust6,003 m · none

Delay codes are Eurocontrol's IATA-standard causes. None of this day's delay sits in the categories airlines usually plead as extraordinary.

Were you on a flight that day?

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.

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 aerodrome capacity, 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

Barcelona20,406 minWeather
Nice Côte d’Azur1,981 minATC staffing
Eindhoven1,825 minWeather
Athens1,763 minATC capacity
Palma de Mallorca1,592 minAerodrome capacity
Porto1,361 minATC equipment
Amsterdam Schiphol1,278 minAerodrome capacity
Málaga1,099 minATC capacity
Paris Orly735 minAerodrome capacity
Geneva659 minAerodrome capacity

Other bad days at Manchester

27 December 202412,423 minWeather
7 January 20259,609 minWeather
15 December 20258,802 minAerodrome capacity
28 December 20246,065 minWeather
12 October 20255,546 minWeather
26 December 20244,335 minWeather
9 January 20254,157 minWeather
20 February 20264,155 minAerodrome capacity

Questions

My flight from Manchester on 3 November 2024 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 Manchester disruption on 3 November 2024 caused by weather?

No. Eurocontrol logged no weather-coded delay at Manchester on this day; the delay was attributed to aerodrome capacity.

Does a bad day at Manchester 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 Manchester.

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 Manchester delay days.