How much compensation for a delayed Ryanair flight?
£220 or £350 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
Ryanair is about average for the 80 airlines flying at UK airports for 3-hour delays.
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What you're owed
The exact figure depends on how far you were flying, and the checker works it out from your route. About 1,741 Ryanair flights a year cross that line.
What it pays
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Ryanair flies from 18 UK airports, so there is no single distance and no single figure. Open the one you flew from and every destination is priced.
Busiest 8 shown. Ryanair flies from 10 more UK airports, all listed further down this page.
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How bad is it
Does Ryanair get delayed a lot?
Not especially. It's about average for the 80 airlines flying at UK airports, with about 1 flight in 200 landing 3 or more hours late (0.5%).
That works out at about 1,741 flights a year crossing the 3-hour line, which is the point the airline has to pay.
When is it worst?
July 2025, when Ryanair flights ran an average of 24.9 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Ryanair
In the last 12 months, Ryanair operated 348,181 flights at UK airports, and 0.5% were 3 or more hours late, the threshold where £220 or £350 each becomes payable.
Flights are landing on time more often than last year: 71.1% ran on time against 67.4% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 18.7 to 16.3 minutes.
| Ryanair, last 12 months | Figure | vs year before |
|---|---|---|
| Flights at UK airports | 348,181 | was 330,739 |
| Ran on time (within 15 min) | 71.1% | ▲ was 67.4% |
| Average delay | 16.3 min | ▼ was 18.7 min |
| 3 hours or more late (the line where they pay) | 0.5% | - |
| Cancelled | 0.2% | - |
| Flights 3 hours or more late (a year) | 1,741 flights/year | - |
The CAA's figures combine arrivals and departures, so this covers both directions of travel.
Ryanair's delays, month by month
Worst month: July 2025, averaging 24.9 minutes.
Where it flies
Ryanair at each UK airport
| Airport | Flights | Avg delay | 3 hours or more late | Landed on time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stansted | 143,628 | 16.6 min | 0.5% | 70.4% |
| Manchester | 51,379 | 18.3 min | 0.6% | 67.9% |
| Edinburgh | 30,224 | 17.4 min | 0.5% | 67.8% |
| Birmingham | 21,775 | 17.5 min | 0.5% | 68.7% |
| Luton | 15,101 | 16.8 min | 0.5% | 70.6% |
| Bristol | 14,824 | 14.4 min | 0.5% | 74.8% |
| Liverpool (John Lennon) | 14,148 | 10.5 min | 0.4% | 80.9% |
| East Midlands International | 10,602 | 14.8 min | 0.5% | 74.3% |
| Leeds Bradford | 9,522 | 14 min | 0.6% | 76.5% |
| Gatwick | 8,273 | 14.7 min | 0.4% | 73.1% |
| Belfast International | 7,819 | 13.5 min | 0.6% | 79.1% |
| Newcastle | 7,172 | 12.4 min | 0.4% | 77.8% |
| Bournemouth | 5,458 | 17.3 min | 0.4% | 68.8% |
| Glasgow | 4,184 | 12.4 min | 0.3% | 77.0% |
| Cardiff Wales | 1,535 | 13.3 min | 0.5% | 74.9% |
| Aberdeen | 929 | 9.4 min | 0.6% | 86.2% |
| Exeter | 804 | 18.7 min | 1.6% | 69.6% |
| Teesside International Airport | 804 | 13.8 min | 0.6% | 74.9% |
From our own tracking
Recent Ryanair flights we logged running late
Every Ryanair 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.
FR532
Ryanair
Gdańsk → London Stansted Airport
8 Oct · 10:15
FR532
Ryanair
Gdańsk → London Stansted Airport
7 Oct · 08:05
FR587
Ryanair
Pisa → London Stansted Airport
7 Oct · 15:00
FR1659
Ryanair
Budapest → London Stansted Airport
7 Oct · 15:45
FR532
Ryanair
Gdańsk → London Stansted Airport
6 Oct · 10:45
FR3265
Ryanair
Pisa → Edinburgh Airport
6 Oct · 11:35
FR520
Ryanair
Porto → London Stansted Airport
6 Oct · 11:55
FR1412
Ryanair
Pisa → London Stansted Airport
5 Oct · 15:00
FR8650
Ryanair
Gdańsk → London Stansted Airport
5 Oct · 17:40
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How to claim
Claiming from Ryanair
Ryanair does not pay compensation automatically. 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.
Checked against Ryanair's own site on 12 August 2026.
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 or £350 each on the distances Ryanair 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.