How much compensation for a delayed El Al flight?
£520 each, if you land 4 hours or more late (£260 each at 3 to 4 hours)
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El Al is about average for the 81 airlines flying at UK airports for 3-hour delays.
- Flights a year
- 1,940
- Landed on time
- 66.0%
- Land 3 hours or more late
- 10 a year
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Every El Al route we hold a distance for falls in the same band, so that is the figure. About 10 El Al flights a year cross that line.
The short answer
Getting compensation from El Al
If your El Al 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 up to £520 each when the cause was within the airline's control. El Al is an Israeli airline, so only flights leaving the UK or the EU are covered, not flights from Tel Aviv into the UK.
Is my flight from Tel Aviv 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 El Al flight into London does not pay fixed compensation.
How much is a late El Al flight from London worth?
London to Tel Aviv is about 3,600 km, which is over the 3,500 km line, so a delay of 4 hours or more pays £520 each, and a delay of 3 to 4 hours pays half, £260 each. Children count as passengers too.
What if my flight from the UK was cancelled because of closed airspace?
Closed airspace or a security alert is usually outside the airline's control, so fixed compensation is unlikely. El Al must still offer a refund or a new flight, and give you food, drink and a hotel if you are stuck overnight. A technical fault or a crew shortage still counts.
Does a cancelled El Al flight count?
Yes, if you were told less than 2 weeks before the flight. You are owed the same as a long delay unless El Al 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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El Al 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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If it lands 3 hours or more late we email you what you're owed.
How bad is it
Does El Al get delayed a lot?
Not especially. It's about average for the 81 airlines flying at UK airports, with about 1 flight in 200 landing 3 hours or more late (0.5%).
That works out at about 10 flights a year crossing the 3-hour line, which is the point the airline has to pay.
When is it worst?
June 2026, when El Al flights ran an average of 29.9 minutes late.
See all the numbers for El Al
In the last 12 months, El Al operated 1,940 flights at UK airports, and 0.5% were 3 hours or more late, the threshold where £260 each becomes payable, rising to £520 each from 4 hours late.
Flights are landing on time more often than last year: 66.0% ran on time against 63.3% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 17.7 to 16.3 minutes.
| El Al, last 12 months | Figure | vs year before |
|---|---|---|
| Flights at UK airports | 1,940 | was 2,222 |
| Ran on time (within 15 min) | 66.0% | ▲ was 63.3% |
| Average delay | 16.3 min | ▼ was 17.7 min |
| 3 hours or more late (the line where they pay) | 0.5% | - |
| Cancelled | 3.1% | - |
| Flights 3 hours or more late (a year) | 10 flights/year | - |
The CAA's figures combine arrivals and departures, so this covers both directions of travel.
El Al's delays, month by month
Worst month: June 2026, averaging 29.9 minutes.
Where it flies
El Al at each UK airport
How to claim
Claiming from El Al
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 4 hours or more on arrival pays £520 each (£260 each at 3 to 4 hours) on the distances El Al 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.