Nice Côte d’Azur delays on Saturday, 20 July 2024
Eurocontrol logged 3,692 minutes of air-traffic arrival delay at Nice Côte d’Azur that day across 81 arrivals held 15 minutes or more out of 290 (28% of the day's arrivals), with 68% of the delay attributed to special event. That makes it the 20th worst day at Nice Côte d’Azur since January 2019.
Eurocontrol record · LFMN · 2024-07-20
Delay codes are Eurocontrol's IATA-standard causes. 1% 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 special event, 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
| Antalya | 6,698 min | Aerodrome capacity |
| Venice | 3,228 min | Other |
| Heraklion | 2,256 min | Aerodrome capacity |
| Khania Souda | 2,179 min | ATC capacity |
| Amsterdam Schiphol | 1,982 min | Aerodrome capacity |
| Lisbon | 1,883 min | ATC capacity |
| Athens | 1,834 min | ATC capacity |
| London Gatwick | 1,461 min | Aerodrome capacity |
| Corfu | 1,263 min | Aerodrome capacity |
Other bad days at Nice Côte d’Azur
| 25 September 2025 | 11,299 min | ATC capacity |
| 1 September 2025 | 10,134 min | Weather |
| 26 September 2025 | 9,685 min | ATC capacity |
| 28 August 2025 | 8,525 min | Weather |
| 22 June 2026 | 7,351 min | ATC capacity |
| 5 July 2025 | 6,649 min | ATC capacity |
| 10 July 2025 | 5,865 min | ATC capacity |
| 22 June 2025 | 5,672 min | ATC capacity |
Questions
My flight from Nice Côte d’Azur on 20 July 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 Nice Côte d’Azur disruption on 20 July 2024 caused by weather?
No. Eurocontrol logged no weather-coded delay at Nice Côte d’Azur on this day; the delay was attributed to special event.
Does a bad day at Nice Côte d’Azur 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 Nice Côte d’Azur.
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 Nice Côte d’Azur delay days.