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Orlando (MCO) takes 41% of the airport's US traffic, followed by New York (JFK) (906), Tampa (TPA) (625), Boston (BOS) (311) and Los Angeles (LAX) (168). Among them the CAA record runs from 82.9% on time to Boston (BOS) down to 73.1% to Orlando (MCO), 10 points apart; the destination matters as much as the departure airport.

Flights: DOT international report, both directions, July 2025 to June 2026. A route needs 100 flights for a page. Punctuality columns: CAA departures from London Gatwick, September 2025 to August 2026.

British Airways flew 51% of the airport's US flights, with Norse Atlantic UK at 1,380, JetBlue Airways at 311, Delta Air Lines at 136 and TUI Airways at 113. Five carriers in all is a competitive market by transatlantic standards, and the route pages show that the gaps between them are not small.

• British Airways2,054 flights · 51%
• Norse Atlantic UK1,380 flights · 35%
• JetBlue Airways311 flights · 8%
• Delta Air Lines136 flights · 3%
• TUI Airways113 flights · 3%

Over the seven days to 21 October 2026, 64.9% of departures and 71.1% of arrivals were within 15 minutes, 4 points worse than the year to date. 96.5% of scheduled flights have operated this year, the remainder cancelled or never filed. Air traffic flow management delay charged to the airport, the minutes the network held flights on the ground elsewhere to protect it, averaged 1.5 per arrival this year and 1.6 over the last week. These are whole-airport figures from EUROCONTROL's Network Manager, published daily and refreshed here with each build; the long-haul bank usually runs a little better than the airport average because wide-body schedules carry more slack.

The CAA matched 1,745 departures from London Gatwick to the United States between September 2025 and August 2026; 74.0% left within 15 minutes, 4 points ahead of the airport's 70.2% across all 128,198 departures to every destination. 0.88% of transatlantic departures left three hours or more late and 1.9% were cancelled; a year earlier the same months ran at 67.1% on time.

Every departure from London Gatwick is covered by UK261, whichever airline operates it: a flight arriving in the United States three hours or more late for a reason within the airline's control owes each passenger £520 on these distances, halved if the arrival was under four hours late, plus care and rebooking. Flights back from the United States are covered only on UK and EU carriers.

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For a transatlantic trip from London Gatwick, the route page is the place to decide: the UK routes carry a full departure record by carrier and month, each shows who flies the pair, how often, and what the airport at each end does to a schedule. Leave at least two hours for any onward connection in the United States; immigration is cleared at the first point of entry, before the connecting flight.

• LGW to MCO, Orlando (MCO)73.1%
• LGW to JFK, New York (JFK)73.5%
• LGW to TPA, Tampa (TPA)73.5%
• LGW to BOS, Boston (BOS)82.9%
• LGW to LAX, Los Angeles (LAX)64.5%
• LGW to MIA, Miami (MIA)66.7%
• Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
• John F. Kennedy International (JFK) delay statistics
• Tampa International (TPA) delay statistics
• London Heathrow (LHR), also in United Kingdom
• Edinburgh (EDI), also in United Kingdom
• Manchester (MAN), also in United Kingdom
• Glasgow (GLA), also in United Kingdom
• Every Europe-to-US route and airport