LGW→MLB

TUI Airways is the only carrier the DOT report shows on LGW to MLB, with 113 flights and an average of 224 passengers aboard each. A single-carrier route gives a delayed passenger no same-day alternative on the same ticket, which is worth knowing before booking a tight onward connection.

Flights are scheduled departures in the CAA file, operated plus cancelled; on time is within 15 minutes of the planned off-block time. The DOT count below includes the return direction and may differ.

The DOT's international report puts 18 flights on the pair in July 2025, the busiest month of the window, and 0 in February 2026, the thinnest. A summer-to-winter swing of that size means the winter schedule is a different operation: fewer frequencies, so a cancellation leaves a longer wait for the next seat.

Coming the other way, 82.0% of arrivals from Melbourne Orlando International into London Gatwick reached the gate within 15 minutes of schedule, across 61 flights. 33% arrived more than 15 minutes early, which is normal for an eastbound crossing with the jet stream behind it and a schedule padded for the days it is not. 0.00% of those arrivals were three hours or more late, the figure that decides a compensation claim on the return trip, and 0.0% were cancelled.

EUROCONTROL's figures for London Gatwick as a whole, every airline and every destination: 69.2% of departures and 71.9% of arrivals within 15 minutes of schedule from 1 January to 21 October 2026, with 96.5% of scheduled flights operated. The last seven days ran at 64.9% for departures, 4 points worse than the year so far. Air traffic flow management delay attributed to the airport averaged 1.5 minutes per arriving flight this year, 1.6 over the last week.

Every US route from London Gatwick, and its full punctuality record

Melbourne Orlando International is scored on this site from the DOT's domestic data: 84.0% of its 2,871 domestic departures arrived on time over the last twelve months, and 2.06% were cancelled. Those are domestic flights, not this route, but an arriving transatlantic flight shares the same runways, the same weather and the same ground delay programmes, so a bad day at MLB reaches a flight from LGW just as surely. The airport flies too little domestic traffic for a page of its own here.

Every flight that departs London Gatwick falls under UK261, the retained version of the EU regulation, whichever airline flies it and wherever it lands. If it arrives at Melbourne Orlando International three hours or more late, or is cancelled with under 14 days' notice, and the cause was within the airline's control, each passenger is owed £520 (£260 if the airline got you there under four hours late), on top of rebooking and care. Weather, air traffic control restrictions and strikes outside the airline are the usual exemptions. The return flight from MLB is covered only when the carrier is UK or EU based. The sector is about 4,333 miles, 6,972 km, which puts it in the top distance band.

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Booked blind, LGW to MLB is a C+ route by the departure record, and there is no carrier choice to make. Leave at least two hours for any onward connection at MLB: 5% of departures were an hour or more late, and immigration comes before the connecting flight.

• London Gatwick (LGW): every US route
• LGW to MCO, Orlando (MCO)1,625 flights
• LGW to JFK, New York (JFK)906 flights
• LGW to TPA, Tampa (TPA)625 flights
• LGW to BOS, Boston (BOS)311 flights
• MAN to MLB, from Manchester121 flights
• Every Europe-to-US route and airport

The departure record is the CAA's, measured at London Gatwick; the arrival record for the return leg is also measured at London Gatwick. Nothing here is measured at MLB, where the DOT keeps no record of international flights.