How much compensation for a delayed Ryanair flight from Manchester?
£220 or £350 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 51,379
- Landed on time
- 67.9%
- Land 3 hrs or more late
- 308a year
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
It depends where you were going, and the table below has every destination priced. About 308 flights a year on this one cross the 3-hour line.
What it pays
What Ryanair owes you from Manchester
One airport, so the figure is exact. Find where you were going.
Four of you on one booking is £880 or £1,400.
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How bad is it
Does Ryanair get delayed a lot at Manchester?
0.6% of Ryanair's 51,379 flights a year at Manchester land 3 or more hours late, which works out at about 308 flights a year crossing the line where the airline has to pay.
When is it worst?
July 2025, when Ryanair flights at Manchester ran an average of 25.8 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Ryanair at Manchester
In the last 12 months, Ryanair operated 51,379 flights at Manchester, and 0.6% 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: 67.9% ran on time against 67.1% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 19.9 to 18.3 minutes.
| Ryanair at Manchester, last 12 months | Figure | vs year before |
|---|---|---|
| Flights at Manchester | 51,379 | was 48,164 |
| Ran on time (within 15 min) | 67.9% | ▲ was 67.1% |
| Average delay | 18.3 min | ▼ was 19.9 min |
| 3 hours or more late (the line where they pay) | 0.6% | - |
| Cancelled | 0.2% | - |
| Flights 3 hours or more late (a year) | 308 flights/year | - |
The CAA's figures combine arrivals and departures, so this covers traffic both ways, not departures alone.
Ryanair at Manchester, month by month
Worst month: July 2025, averaging 25.8 minutes.
Route by route
Ryanair's busiest routes at Manchester
| Destination | Flights | Distance | Avg delay | 3 hours or more late | 3 hours or more pays |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dublin | 4,912 | 264 km | 17.4 min | 0.6% | £220each |
| Alicante | 2,345 | 1,681 km | 18.6 min | 0.6% | £350each |
| Charleroi | 1,949 | 562 km | 13.3 min | 0.2% | £220each |
| Rome (Ciampino) | 1,399 | 1,695 km | 9.6 min | 0.1% | £350each |
| Cork | 1,395 | 452 km | 12.1 min | 0.3% | £220each |
| Malaga | 1,371 | 1,862 km | 14.5 min | 0.1% | £350each |
| Palma de Mallorca | 1,313 | 1,581 km | 33.2 min | 2.1% | £350each |
| Barcelona | 1,290 | 1,379 km | 20.3 min | 0.5% | £220each |
From our own tracking
Recent Ryanair flights into Manchester that ran late
Every Ryanair arrival at Manchester we logged running 3 or more hours late, or cancelled, 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. Amounts are per person on the booking (half on the longest flights that landed 3 to 4 hours late). Airlines can still dispute a claim by proving the cause was outside their control, so check yours for the real answer.
Ryanair
Barcelona → Manchester Airport
5 Oct · 13:20 → 16:58
Ryanair
Rzeszów → Manchester Airport
24 Sept · 00:55 → 04:17
Ryanair
Nantes → Manchester Airport
23 Sept · 15:25 → 22:27
Ryanair
London → Manchester Airport
22 Sept · 08:55 → 12:27
Ryanair
Dublin → Manchester Airport
16 Sept · 20:05 → 23:07
Ryanair
Barcelona → Manchester Airport
9 Sept · 18:30 → 23:16
Ryanair
Barcelona → Manchester Airport
9 Sept · 14:10 → 18:44
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Your rights
Your rights on this route
Manchester is a UK airport, so every flight departing from it is covered by UK261, whichever airline you fly with. Delays of 3 or more hours pay £220 to £520 each depending on how far you were flying, and the table above gives the exact figure for each of these routes. See the full breakdown on the 3-hour rule. If the flight is cancelled instead of delayed, broadly the same amounts apply under different conditions. See cancelled flight compensation.
Ryanair from other airports
Other airlines at Manchester
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.