VL18 Frankfurt am MainFRA · 13:00 HamburgHAM · 14:05
VL18 by Lufthansa City Airlines flies from Frankfurt am Main (FRA) to Hamburg (HAM).
scheduled from FRA
The route today
live boardsWeather lens
Weather-conditioned outlook for this flight right now
Measured, 90-day sampleDriven mainly by HAM (Hamburg), currently flying MVFR (marginal visual). These figures come from both airports' records under conditions like today's, over the last 90 days.
Pro Flight Search tracking, 90 days · the weather × delay correlation study → · live weather risk by airport →
Tomorrow on this route
ForecastFrankfurt am Main to Hamburg with Lufthansa City Airlines · Sun 1 Nov, local date
- Chance a departure is cancelled
- 1.7%0.9× usual
- Chance a departure leaves 60+ min late
- 5.4%0.9× usual
Forecast: WeatherTomorrow · incl. data from ECMWF (CC BY 4.0, modified) · Fewer than one departure a day on this route with this airline, so read it as a rough guide. · Expected values for tomorrow from a forecast model, kept apart from today's measured figures.
When it flies
scheduled departuresEach mark is a scheduled departure at its origin-local time. Today is highlighted.
Other Frankfurt am Main to Hamburg flights today
same route · Lufthansa City AirlinesIf VL18 is cancelled, these are the other Lufthansa City Airlines nonstop flights from Frankfurt am Main to Hamburg on the same day, with scheduled departure times in FRA local time. Most flights that show a delay still operate. Rebooking usually helps only when that delay is very large. Every airline on this route →
How VL18 actually runs
Pro Flight Search has tracked every published board update for VL18 across the FRA and HAM boards: schedule changes, gate pushes and actual clocks. Early read: no clear pattern yet. Only 2 completed legs so far: landed +25 min. Not enough to call it.
The verdict above is that record speaking, so it reflects how VL18 operates rather than what the timetable promises. Numbers refresh as new flights operate.
How this operation is measured
Board log
scheduled → actual, per operationAircraft
Recent tails: DAIJA.
Board clocks recorded as FRA and HAM published them.
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Pro Flight Search: VL18 Frankfurt am Main to Hamburg on-time performance, measured from the FRA and HAM airport boards.
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