How much compensation for a delayed Lufthansa flight?
£220 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
Lufthansa is better than most of the 80 airlines flying at UK airports for 3-hour delays.
Claim firms take a success fee, typically 20-30% plus VAT, and more again if the case has to go legal. On £220 that leaves you about £100 to £165. A claim firm only gets paid if it wins, so lose and you pay nothing.
We earn a fee if you claim through it.
What you're owed
Every Lufthansa route we hold a distance for falls in the same band, so that is the figure. About 25 Lufthansa flights a year cross that line.
What it pays
Pick the airport you flew from
Lufthansa flies from 6 UK airports, so there is no single distance and no single figure. Open the one you flew from and every destination is 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 Lufthansa get delayed a lot?
No, less than most. It's better than most of the 80 airlines flying at UK airports, with about 1 flight in 1,000 landing 3 or more hours late (0.1%).
That works out at about 25 flights a year crossing the 3-hour line, which is the point the airline has to pay.
When is it worst?
January 2026, when Lufthansa flights ran an average of 18.3 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Lufthansa
In the last 12 months, Lufthansa operated 24,888 flights at UK airports, and 0.1% were 3 or more hours late, the threshold where £220 each becomes payable.
Flights are landing on time less often than last year: 70.2% ran on time against 70.7% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 13.3 to 13.1 minutes.
| Lufthansa, last 12 months | Figure | vs year before |
|---|---|---|
| Flights at UK airports | 24,888 | was 26,874 |
| Ran on time (within 15 min) | 70.2% | ▼ was 70.7% |
| Average delay | 13.1 min | ▼ was 13.3 min |
| 3 hours or more late (the line where they pay) | 0.1% | - |
| Cancelled | 3.0% | - |
| Flights 3 hours or more late (a year) | 25 flights/year | - |
The CAA's figures combine arrivals and departures, so this covers both directions of travel.
Lufthansa's delays, month by month
Worst month: January 2026, averaging 18.3 minutes.
Where it flies
Lufthansa at each UK airport
| Airport | Flights | Avg delay | 3 hours or more late | Landed on time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heathrow | 14,032 | 11.9 min | 0.1% | 73.1% |
| Manchester | 4,265 | 15 min | 0.2% | 65.8% |
| Birmingham | 2,783 | 14.7 min | 0.3% | 66.9% |
| Edinburgh | 2,273 | 15.1 min | 0.1% | 63.7% |
| Glasgow | 1,017 | 10.7 min | 0.2% | 76.0% |
| Newcastle | 461 | 14.9 min | 0.2% | 64.6% |
From our own tracking
Recent Lufthansa flights we logged running late
Every Lufthansa arrival we logged running 3 or more hours late, or cancelled, at the airports we sweep since August. Newest first, and only flights UK or EU rules cover. A cancelled row carries no figure because what it pays turns on the notice you were given. The amount is what UK or EU rules pay that passenger, per person on the booking: usually the full rate for the distance, and half of it on the longest flights that landed between 3 and 4 hours late. Airlines can still dispute a claim by proving the cause was outside their control, so check yours to get the real answer.
LH2470
Lufthansa
Munich → London Heathrow Airport
6 Oct · 08:15
LH900
Lufthansa
Frankfurt-am-Main → London Heathrow Airport
6 Oct · 08:40
LH2472
Lufthansa
Munich → London Heathrow Airport
6 Oct · 09:55
LH900
Lufthansa
Frankfurt-am-Main → London Heathrow Airport
4 Oct · 08:40
LH2472
Lufthansa
Munich → London Heathrow Airport
4 Oct · 09:55
LH2476
Lufthansa
Munich → London Heathrow Airport
4 Oct · 15:40
LH2476
Lufthansa
Munich → London Heathrow Airport
8 Sept · 15:40
LH914
Lufthansa
Frankfurt-am-Main → London Heathrow Airport
8 Sept · 16:40
LH2478
Lufthansa
Munich → London Heathrow Airport
8 Sept · 17:05
LH2486
Lufthansa
Munich → London Heathrow Airport
8 Sept · 18:25
LH918
Lufthansa
Frankfurt-am-Main → London Heathrow Airport
8 Sept · 18:40
LH2480
Lufthansa
Munich → London Heathrow Airport
8 Sept · 19:40
LH922
Lufthansa
Frankfurt-am-Main → London Heathrow Airport
8 Sept · 22:10
LH2484
Lufthansa
Munich → London Heathrow Airport
8 Sept · 22:40
LH946
Lufthansa
Frankfurt-am-Main → Manchester Airport
28 Aug · 17:20
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How to claim
Claiming from Lufthansa
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 departed decides everything, not the airline's nationality. Anything leaving a UK airport is covered by UK261 whoever operates it, and anything leaving the EU by EU261. A delay of 3 or more hours on arrival pays £220 each on the distances Lufthansa 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, July 2025 to June 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.