With the end of the winter season EUclaim, the leader in the airline consumer rights movement, reveals the top seven delays at each of London’s key airports. London Heathrow and London Gatwick top the leader board with each airport having flight delays of over 21.00 hours. The worst reported delay of the season was at London Gatwick when a Thomson Airways flight on the 24 January from Montego Bay, Jamaica to Gatwick was delayed for 38.31 hours. Delayed flights from London Luton ranged between an 08.08 hour delay on a Ryanair flight to Malta with the longest delay, 11.49 hours, with carrier Wizz Air en route to Riga in Latvia. London Stansted delays ranged from 08.30 hours with a Ryanair flight from Pisa to Stansted and a 19.56 hour delay, again with Ryanair, on a flight from Fuerteventura to London Stansted. London City airport had the shortest delays ranging from 02.25 hours to 4.50 hours.
”EUclaim is the only company in Europe dealing with flight compensation that has access to the proprietary database of Lennoc Flight Intelligence, containing historical flight information. This data is collected by from commercial and public sources which includes governments, airports, airlines and news media. Added to that the signals from commercial airlines (ACARS and ADS-B) are also gathered.” Explained Hendrik Noorderhaven, CEO EUclaim “So when delayed passengers come to us with a potential claim against an airline they can be assured that EUclaim will analyse our flight data and promptly and honestly confirm whether the passengers claim against an airline under EU Regulation 261/2004 is worth pursuing or not.”