How much compensation for a delayed Blue Islands flight?
£220 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
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Blue Islands is one of the 10 worst of the 81 airlines flying at UK airports for 3-hour delays.
- Flights a year
- 3,865
- Landed on time
- 71.9%
- Land 3 hours or more late
- 58 a year
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Every Blue Islands route we hold a distance for falls in the same band, so that is the figure. About 58 Blue Islands flights a year cross that line.
The short answer
Getting compensation from Blue Islands
Blue Islands stopped flying on 14 November 2025 and went into liquidation on 17 November 2025, so there are no flights left to check. A past flight from a UK airport that landed 3 hours or more late was worth £220 each when the cause was within its control, but money from a failed airline is uncertain and we cannot promise a payout.
Which Blue Islands flights were covered?
Flights leaving a UK airport such as Southampton, Bristol or Exeter, because the rules follow the airport the flight leaves from. Jersey and Guernsey are Crown Dependencies, not part of the UK, so we cannot promise fixed compensation on flights leaving them.
How much was a late Blue Islands flight worth?
Every Blue Islands route from the UK was under 1,500 km, so a flight that landed 3 hours or more late was worth £220 each. Children count as passengers too.
What about a flight I had booked with Blue Islands?
All its flights were cancelled on 14 November 2025. The Civil Aviation Authority said customers who booked directly should ask their card provider about a refund, and customers who booked through an agent should contact the agent.
How far back can I claim from Blue Islands?
The legal time limit is six years in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and five years in Scotland. With Blue Islands in liquidation, though, any payment is uncertain.
What it pays
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Blue Islands 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 Blue Islands get delayed a lot?
Yes, more than most. It's one of the 10 worst of the 81 airlines flying at UK airports, with about 1 flight in 65 landing 3 hours or more late (1.5%).
That works out at about 58 flights a year crossing the 3-hour line, which is the point the airline has to pay.
When is it worst?
September 2025, when Blue Islands flights ran an average of 35.1 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Blue Islands
In the last 12 months, Blue Islands operated 3,865 flights at UK airports, and 1.5% were 3 hours or more late, the threshold where £220 each becomes payable.
Flights are landing on time more often than last year: 71.9% ran on time against 64.8% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 25.4 to 19.1 minutes.
| Blue Islands, last 12 months | Figure | vs year before |
|---|---|---|
| Flights at UK airports | 3,865 | was 11,590 |
| Ran on time (within 15 min) | 71.9% | ▲ was 64.8% |
| Average delay | 19.1 min | ▼ was 25.4 min |
| 3 hours or more late (the line where they pay) | 1.5% | - |
| Cancelled | 2.7% | - |
| Flights 3 hours or more late (a year) | 58 flights/year | - |
The CAA's figures combine arrivals and departures, so this covers both directions of travel.
Blue Islands' delays, month by month
Worst month: September 2025, averaging 35.1 minutes.
Where it flies
Blue Islands at each UK airport
| Airport | Flights | Avg delay | 3 hours or more late | Landed on time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jersey | 2,093 | 19 min | 1.5% | 73.3% |
| Southampton | 1,076 | 18.8 min | 1.8% | 70.8% |
How to claim
Claiming from Blue Islands
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 £220 each on the distances Blue Islands 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, August 2025 to July 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.