How much compensation for a delayed Scandinavian Airlines Ireland flight?
£220 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
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Scandinavian Airlines Ireland is better than most of the 80 airlines flying at UK airports for 3-hour delays.
- Flights a year
- 2,114
- Landed on time
- 83.6%
- Land 3 hrs or more late
- 2a year
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Every Scandinavian Airlines Ireland route we hold a distance for falls in the same band, so that is the figure. About 2 Scandinavian Airlines Ireland flights a year cross that line.
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How bad is it
Does Scandinavian Airlines Ireland 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 2 flights a year crossing the 3-hour line, which is the point the airline has to pay.
When is it worst?
September 2025, when Scandinavian Airlines Ireland flights ran an average of 15.4 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Scandinavian Airlines Ireland
In the last 12 months, Scandinavian Airlines Ireland operated 2,114 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: 83.6% ran on time against 83.7% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 8.5 to 8.2 minutes.
| Scandinavian Airlines Ireland, last 12 months | Figure | vs year before |
|---|---|---|
| Flights at UK airports | 2,114 | was 1,764 |
| Ran on time (within 15 min) | 83.6% | ▼ was 83.7% |
| Average delay | 8.2 min | ▼ was 8.5 min |
| 3 hours or more late (the line where they pay) | 0.1% | - |
| Cancelled | 0.0% | - |
| Flights 3 hours or more late (a year) | 2 flights/year | - |
The CAA's figures combine arrivals and departures, so this covers both directions of travel.
Scandinavian Airlines Ireland's delays, month by month
Worst month: September 2025, averaging 15.4 minutes.
Where it flies
Scandinavian Airlines Ireland at each UK airport
| Airport | Flights | Avg delay | 3 hours or more late | Landed on time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heathrow | 2,114 | 8.2 min | 0.1% | 83.6% |
How to claim
Claiming from Scandinavian Airlines Ireland
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 Scandinavian Airlines Ireland 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.
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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.