How much compensation for a delayed Isles of Scilly Skybus flight?
£220 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
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Isles of Scilly Skybus is one of the 10 worst of the 81 airlines flying at UK airports for 3-hour delays.
- Flights a year
- 1,138
- Landed on time
- 68.6%
- Land 3 hours or more late
- 17 a year
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Every Isles of Scilly Skybus route we hold a distance for falls in the same band, so that is the figure. About 17 Isles of Scilly Skybus flights a year cross that line.
The short answer
Getting compensation from Isles of Scilly Skybus
If your Skybus flight landed 3 hours or more late, or was cancelled with less than 2 weeks' notice, everyone on the booking may be owed £220 each, because every route to the Isles of Scilly is far under 1,500 km. Skybus is a UK airline, so flights are covered in both directions when the cause was within its control, such as a technical fault or a crew shortage.
What if fog stops my Skybus flight?
Fog and low cloud are common on the islands, and genuinely severe weather means no fixed payout. Skybus must still look after you while you wait, with food, drink and a hotel if you are stuck overnight, and a technical fault or a crew shortage still counts, whatever the weather.
Is such a short flight really covered?
Yes. The shortest distance band is anything up to 1,500 km, so a flight from a UK airport such as Land's End that lands 3 hours or more late pays £220 each, however brief the journey.
Does a cancelled Skybus flight count?
Yes, if you were told less than 2 weeks before the flight. You are owed the same as a long delay unless Skybus 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.
How long does a Skybus claim take?
Airlines usually reply within a few weeks. If Skybus refuses or does not answer within eight weeks, you can take the claim further for free, through an approved dispute resolution scheme or the regulator for the country the flight left from.
What it pays
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Isles of Scilly Skybus 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 Isles of Scilly Skybus 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 17 flights a year crossing the 3-hour line, which is the point the airline has to pay.
When is it worst?
February 2026, when Isles of Scilly Skybus flights ran an average of 39.5 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Isles of Scilly Skybus
In the last 12 months, Isles of Scilly Skybus operated 1,138 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 less often than last year: 68.6% ran on time against 68.7% in the twelve months before, and the average delay rose from 13.5 to 18.4 minutes.
| Isles of Scilly Skybus, last 12 months | Figure | vs year before |
|---|---|---|
| Flights at UK airports | 1,138 | was 611 |
| Ran on time (within 15 min) | 68.6% | ▼ was 68.7% |
| Average delay | 18.4 min | ▲ was 13.5 min |
| 3 hours or more late (the line where they pay) | 1.5% | - |
| Cancelled | 18.2% | - |
| Flights 3 hours or more late (a year) | 17 flights/year | - |
The CAA's figures combine arrivals and departures, so this covers both directions of travel.
Isles of Scilly Skybus' delays, month by month
Worst month: February 2026, averaging 39.5 minutes.
Where it flies
Isles of Scilly Skybus at each UK airport
| Airport | Flights | Avg delay | 3 hours or more late | Landed on time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southampton | 509 | 23 min | 1.0% | 63.2% |
| Exeter | 331 | 8.4 min | 0.3% | 69.5% |
How to claim
Claiming from Isles of Scilly Skybus
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 Isles of Scilly Skybus 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.