Toulouse Blagnac delays on Wednesday, 29 May 2019
Eurocontrol logged 1,149 minutes of air-traffic arrival delay at Toulouse Blagnac that day across 27 arrivals held 15 minutes or more out of 153 (18% of the day's arrivals), with 100% of the delay attributed to special event. That makes it the 6th worst day at Toulouse Blagnac since January 2019.
Eurocontrol record · LFBO · 2019-05-29
Delay codes are Eurocontrol's IATA-standard causes. None of this day's delay sits in the categories airlines usually plead as extraordinary.
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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
| Amsterdam Schiphol | 3,782 min | Aerodrome capacity |
| Lisbon | 1,690 min | ATC staffing |
| London Gatwick | 898 min | Weather |
| London Luton | 765 min | Weather |
| Paris Orly | 754 min | Aerodrome capacity |
| Warszawa Chopina | 704 min | Aerodrome capacity |
| Zürich | 682 min | Aerodrome capacity |
| Geneva | 481 min | Aerodrome capacity |
| Brussels | 450 min | Weather |
Other bad days at Toulouse Blagnac
| 18 October 2023 | 2,424 min | Other |
| 27 October 2021 | 2,130 min | Weather |
| 28 April 2025 | 1,343 min | Weather |
| 21 October 2025 | 1,267 min | ATC staffing |
| 21 September 2024 | 1,252 min | ATC staffing |
| 19 December 2025 | 1,098 min | ATC capacity |
Questions
My flight from Toulouse Blagnac on 29 May 2019 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 Toulouse Blagnac disruption on 29 May 2019 caused by weather?
No. Eurocontrol logged no weather-coded delay at Toulouse Blagnac on this day; the delay was attributed to special event.
Does a bad day at Toulouse Blagnac 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 Toulouse Blagnac.
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 Toulouse Blagnac delay days.