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Orlando (MCO) takes 39% of the airport's US traffic, followed by New York (JFK) (965), Atlanta (ATL) (628), Las Vegas (LAS) (162) and Melbourne (MLB) (121). Among them the CAA record runs from 87.3% on time to Atlanta (ATL) down to 58.8% to Melbourne (MLB), 29 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 Manchester, September 2025 to August 2026.

Virgin Atlantic flew 73% of the airport's US flights, with Aer Lingus at 706 and TUI Airways at 121. Three carriers in all: the choice on most routes from here is the airline or the date, not the airline and the date.

• Virgin Atlantic2,257 flights · 73%
• Aer Lingus706 flights · 23%
• TUI Airways121 flights · 4%

Over the seven days to 21 October 2026, 62.4% of departures and 68.4% of arrivals were within 15 minutes, about a point worse than the year to date. 96.2% 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 0.9 per arrival this year and 0.4 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 1,492 departures from Manchester to the United States between September 2025 and August 2026; 76.1% left within 15 minutes, 15 points ahead of the airport's 61.4% across all 99,303 departures to every destination. 0.44% of transatlantic departures left three hours or more late and 2.9% were cancelled; a year earlier the same months ran at 77.7% on time.

Every departure from Manchester 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 Manchester, 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.

• MAN to MCO, Orlando (MCO)70.9%
• MAN to JFK, New York (JFK)77.9%
• MAN to ATL, Atlanta (ATL)87.3%
• MAN to LAS, Las Vegas (LAS)75.3%
• MAN to MLB, Melbourne (MLB)58.8%
• Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
• John F. Kennedy International (JFK) delay statistics
• Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) delay statistics
• London Heathrow (LHR), also in United Kingdom
• Edinburgh (EDI), also in United Kingdom
• London Gatwick (LGW), also in United Kingdom
• Glasgow (GLA), also in United Kingdom
• Every Europe-to-US route and airport