Toulouse Blagnac delays on Wednesday, 18 October 2023
Eurocontrol logged 2,424 minutes of air-traffic arrival delay at Toulouse Blagnac that day across 37 arrivals held 15 minutes or more out of 92 (40% of the day's arrivals), with 73% of the delay attributed to other. That makes it the 1st worst day at Toulouse Blagnac since January 2019.
Eurocontrol record · LFBO · 2023-10-18
Delay codes are Eurocontrol's IATA-standard causes. 27% of this day's delay sits in categories airlines usually plead as extraordinary circumstances.
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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 other, which is not an extraordinary circumstance. 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
| London Heathrow | 3,966 min | Weather |
| Lisbon | 2,484 min | Airspace management |
| London Gatwick | 1,640 min | Aerodrome capacity |
| Amsterdam Schiphol | 974 min | Aerodrome capacity |
| Istanbul | 716 min | Weather |
| Dusseldorf | 566 min | Aerodrome capacity |
| Tel Aviv Ben Gurion International | 565 min | ATC capacity |
| Firenze Peretola | 532 min | ATC equipment |
| Cologne Bonn | 446 min | Aerodrome capacity |
Other bad days at Toulouse Blagnac
| 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 |
| 29 May 2019 | 1,149 min | Special event |
| 19 December 2025 | 1,098 min | ATC capacity |
Questions
My flight from Toulouse Blagnac on 18 October 2023 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 18 October 2023 caused by weather?
No. Eurocontrol logged no weather-coded delay at Toulouse Blagnac on this day; the delay was attributed to other.
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.