Daily Airport Arrival ATFM Delay

Daily airport arrival ATFM delay at the main European airports, by cause, compared with the previous year.

Updated daily Daily data Data to November 4, 2026 Source dashboard

Operational data, updated every day up to yesterday. Recent days may be revised; Polaris keeps every day it has received, so history continues past the end of each year.

Data and Resources

API

Daily arrival ATFM delay, main airports

API name: daily-atfm-delay-airports--main-airports

First 5 rows · Download all rows: CSV · TSV · JSON · XML

Code examples

curl

curl 'https://polaris.goens.dev/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=daily-atfm-delay-airports--main-airports&limit=5'

Python

import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv('https://polaris.goens.dev/datastore/dump/daily-atfm-delay-airports--main-airports?format=csv')

R

df <- read.csv('https://polaris.goens.dev/datastore/dump/daily-atfm-delay-airports--main-airports?format=csv')

Daily arrival ATFM delay, top airports

API name: daily-atfm-delay-airports--top-airports

First 5 rows · Download all rows: CSV · TSV · JSON · XML

Code examples

curl

curl 'https://polaris.goens.dev/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=daily-atfm-delay-airports--top-airports&limit=5'

Python

import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv('https://polaris.goens.dev/datastore/dump/daily-atfm-delay-airports--top-airports?format=csv')

R

df <- read.csv('https://polaris.goens.dev/datastore/dump/daily-atfm-delay-airports--top-airports?format=csv')

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Cite this data

Source: EUROCONTROL Aviation Intelligence Unit. Daily Airport Arrival ATFM Delay. https://polaris.goens.dev/dataset/daily-atfm-delay-airports

May be copied in whole or in part, provided that EUROCONTROL is mentioned as the source and it is not used for commercial purposes. Full disclaimer

About this data

Arrivals, minutes of arrival ATFM delay and delay per arrival for each airport, with the split by cause. The main airports table matches the dashboard's download. The top airports table is the wider set the dashboard uses for its breakdowns, keyed by ICAO code because a few rows have no airport name.

Data sources

Published by
EUROCONTROL Aviation Intelligence Unit
Underlying data
Network Manager

The table view shows where each column comes from, under Data Dictionary.

Additional Info

Field Value
Update frequency Daily
Time resolution Daily
Data from 2024-03-02
Data to 2026-11-04
Data description
Methodology
Source page https://www.eurocontrol.int/Economics/DailyDelay-Airports.html