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Where to fly or avoid for delays
France's best and worst airports for delays have been revealed with the busiest two – Paris Orly and Paris Charles-de-Gaulle – facing 3.9% and 3.5% of their flights delayed for more than an hour.
Little Chambéry, however, sees nearly one in five flights either delayed or cancelled.
Of the larger airports, Biarritz, Brest, Rennes, Marseille and Strasbourg have the most flights delayed by more than three hours – the time limit for flight compensation. The compensation site Flightright saying these long delays hit 0.2% to 0.4% of the flights from them.
The airports least hit by long delays are Corsica’s Bastia and Ajaccio, Paris CDG, Nice and Paris Beauvais.
Brest is the heaviest hit for flight cancellations with 1.8% cancelled. Rennes, Marseille and Strasbourg have 1.6% of flights cancelled while Bordeaux has 1.5% and Lyon 1.4%.
Across Europe, Stansted is the least hit by long delays, then Dublin. Luton is in fifth place. Munich is worst, then Lyon, Orly, Brussels and Frankfurt.
