NATS handled 236,539 flights in May, lifting traffic 12.4% from April and 0.8% year on year while keeping punctuality high. The operator said 97.4% of flights saw no NATS-attributable delay, and the 2.6% affected were delayed by an average 11.9 minutes.
Eurocontrol data put NATS at 24.5% of Europe’s May traffic but only 3.8% of total delay. Transatlantic overflights grew 4.1% year on year, offsetting a 2.2% fall in non-transatlantic overflights. During the half-term peak, it handled more than 8,287 flights in a single day.
The pattern points to resilient capacity as summer demand builds.