Paris Charles de Gaulle delays on Saturday, 25 October 2025
Eurocontrol logged 2,648 minutes of air-traffic arrival delay at Paris Charles de Gaulle that day across 65 arrivals held 15 minutes or more out of 645 (10% of the day's arrivals), with 89% of the delay attributed to aerodrome capacity. That makes it the 43rd worst day at Paris Charles de Gaulle since January 2019.
Eurocontrol record · LFPG · 2025-10-25
Delay codes are Eurocontrol's IATA-standard causes. 11% 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 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
| Amsterdam Schiphol | 7,292 min | Weather |
| Palma de Mallorca | 3,332 min | Weather |
| Antalya | 1,498 min | Aerodrome capacity |
| Vienna | 1,037 min | ATC staffing |
| Lisbon | 1,007 min | Weather |
| Athens | 930 min | ATC capacity |
| Naples | 623 min | Environmental issues |
| Brussels | 596 min | Aerodrome capacity |
| Heraklion | 455 min | Aerodrome capacity |
Other bad days at Paris Charles de Gaulle
| 5 December 2025 | 14,675 min | Weather |
| 7 January 2026 | 12,325 min | Weather |
| 22 November 2025 | 12,305 min | Weather |
| 5 January 2026 | 11,363 min | Weather |
| 2 July 2022 | 10,799 min | Industrial action (non-ATC) |
| 9 November 2025 | 9,665 min | Weather |
| 7 June 2019 | 9,431 min | Weather |
| 5 December 2019 | 9,055 min | Industrial action (non-ATC) |
Questions
My flight from Paris Charles de Gaulle on 25 October 2025 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 Paris Charles de Gaulle disruption on 25 October 2025 caused by weather?
Partly or wholly: 11% of the 2,648 logged minutes were coded as weather. The airport's own weather observations that day show no significant phenomena, lowest visibility 7998 m and strongest gust none reported kt.
Does a bad day at Paris Charles de Gaulle 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 Paris Charles de Gaulle.
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 Paris Charles de Gaulle delay days.