Heathrow Airport (LHR) delays today: 59% of the 1,233 flights we have timed operated within 15 minutes of schedule. Arrivals are running 18 min early. 21 of 1,283 tracked flights have been cancelled (1.6%). The busiest arrival hour on today's board is 09:00 local, with 47 flights scheduled to land. The most-served origin today is New York (JFK), with 19 arrivals on the board. Source: official airport boards, METAR weather, Pro Flight Search tracking. Updated 29 October 2026 at 21:23 UTC.
typical arrival delay right now
Departures +14 min, arrivals 18 min early. 21 of 1,283 flights cancelled (1.6%).
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Scheduled arrivals per 15 minutes. The tallest banks are where queues form.
Your aircraft is usually late before it leaves. Origin delay is the strongest single predictor of a late arrival here.
Origins on the current board, busiest first. 162 airports feed this arrivals window.
The busiest arrival hour on today's board is 09:00 local, with 47 flights scheduled to land.
Fri 30 Oct, local date
Forecast: WeatherTomorrow · incl. data from ECMWF (CC BY 4.0, modified) · Based on about 660 departures a day. · Expected values for tomorrow from a forecast model, kept apart from today's measured figures.
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Heathrow Airport (LHR) delays today: 59% of the 1,233 flights we have timed operated within 15 minutes of schedule. Arrivals are running 18 min early. 21 of 1,283 tracked flights have been cancelled (1.6%).
29 of the 671 flights currently on the board are cancelled.
The busiest arrival hour on today's board is 09:00 local, with 47 flights scheduled to land.
The busiest origins on the current board are New York (JFK), Amsterdam (AMS), Dublin (DUB), Munich (MUC), Madrid (MAD). In total 162 airports feed this window.
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