How much compensation for a delayed Air Algérie flight?
£350 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
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Air Algérie is one of the 10 worst of the 80 airlines flying at UK airports for 3-hour delays.
- Flights a year
- 1,071
- Landed on time
- 66.3%
- Land 3 hours or more late
- 20 a year
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Every Air Algérie route we hold a distance for falls in the same band, so that is the figure. About 20 Air Algérie flights a year cross that line.
The short answer
Getting compensation from Air Algérie
If your Air Algérie flight from the UK landed 3 hours or more late, or was cancelled with less than 2 weeks' notice, everyone on the booking may be owed £350 each when the cause was within the airline's control. Air Algérie is not a UK or EU airline, so only flights leaving the UK or the EU are covered, not flights from Algiers into the UK.
Is my flight from Algiers to London covered?
No. UK and EU rules only cover an airline from outside Europe on flights leaving the UK or the EU. A late Air Algérie flight into London does not pay fixed compensation.
How much is a late Air Algérie flight worth?
Flights from the UK to Algiers are between 1,500 and 3,500 km (London to Algiers is about 1,700 km), so a delay of 3 hours or more pays £350 each. Flights from Paris to Algiers are under 1,500 km, so they pay about £215 each (€250). Count from when you land, not when you take off.
What if I missed my connection in Algiers?
If the whole trip was one booking that started in the UK or the EU, what counts is how late you reached your final destination. Land 3 hours or more late there and the amount is set by the full distance, which can be more than £350 each, even if the first flight was only a little late.
Does a cancelled Air Algérie flight count?
Yes, if you were told less than 2 weeks before the flight. You are owed the same as a long delay unless Air Algérie offered a replacement close to your original times, or the cause was outside its control. You can also choose a full refund instead of a new flight.
What it pays
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Air Algérie flies from 2 of the UK airports we cover, so there is no single distance and no single figure. Open the one you flew from to see its busiest routes priced.
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How bad is it
Does Air Algérie get delayed a lot?
Yes, more than most. It's one of the 10 worst of the 80 airlines flying at UK airports, with about 1 flight in 55 landing 3 hours or more late (1.9%).
That works out at about 20 flights a year crossing the 3-hour line, which is the point the airline has to pay.
When is it worst?
September 2025, when Air Algérie flights ran an average of 62.2 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Air Algérie
In the last 12 months, Air Algérie operated 1,071 flights at UK airports, and 1.9% were 3 hours or more late, the threshold where £350 each becomes payable.
Flights are landing on time more often than last year: 66.3% ran on time against 48.1% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 32.3 to 22.1 minutes.
| Air Algérie, last 12 months | Figure | vs year before |
|---|---|---|
| Flights at UK airports | 1,071 | was 654 |
| Ran on time (within 15 min) | 66.3% | ▲ was 48.1% |
| Average delay | 22.1 min | ▼ was 32.3 min |
| 3 hours or more late (the line where they pay) | 1.9% | - |
| Cancelled | 0.2% | - |
| Flights 3 hours or more late (a year) | 20 flights/year | - |
The CAA's figures combine arrivals and departures, so this covers both directions of travel.
Air Algérie's delays, month by month
Worst month: September 2025, averaging 62.2 minutes.
Where it flies
Air Algérie at each UK airport
How to claim
Claiming from Air Algérie
Airlines rarely pay compensation on their own. Nothing happens until someone claims, and plenty of first claims come back refused when the airline blames something outside its control.
The rules do not change with the airline. What decides your claim is where the flight took off and how late it landed, not whose aircraft it was.
Your rights
What the rules turn on
Where the flight leaves from matters most. Anything leaving a UK airport is covered by the UK rules whoever operates it, and anything leaving the EU by the EU's. A flight into the UK or the EU is covered too when a UK or EU airline flies it. A delay of 3 hours or more on arrival pays £350 each on the distances Air Algérie flies, when the cause was within the airline's control, which covers technical faults, crew shortages and the knock-on from a late inbound aircraft. It pays nothing when the cause was genuinely extraordinary, though airlines stretch that word further than the case law supports, so a refusal on those grounds is worth testing rather than accepting.
Other airlines
Source: UK Civil Aviation Authority punctuality statistics, September 2025 to August 2026. Analysis by CheckFlightCompensation; the CAA is credited as the data source as its publication conditions require. Figures cover the 25 largest UK airports. Methodology and limitations.