How much compensation for a delayed Swiss Airlines flight?
£220 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
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Swiss Airlines is better than most of the 80 airlines flying at UK airports for 3-hour delays.
- Flights a year
- 14,502
- Landed on time
- 66.7%
- Land 3 hrs or more late
- 15a year
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Every Swiss Airlines route we hold a distance for falls in the same band, so that is the figure. About 15 Swiss Airlines flights a year cross that line.
What it pays
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Swiss Airlines flies from 5 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 Swiss Airlines 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 15 flights a year crossing the 3-hour line, which is the point the airline has to pay.
When is it worst?
July 2025, when Swiss Airlines flights ran an average of 24.4 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Swiss Airlines
In the last 12 months, Swiss Airlines operated 14,502 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 more often than last year: 66.7% ran on time against 62.4% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 17 to 14.5 minutes.
| Swiss Airlines, last 12 months | Figure | vs year before |
|---|---|---|
| Flights at UK airports | 14,502 | was 14,028 |
| Ran on time (within 15 min) | 66.7% | ▲ was 62.4% |
| Average delay | 14.5 min | ▼ was 17 min |
| 3 hours or more late (the line where they pay) | 0.1% | - |
| Cancelled | 1.1% | - |
| Flights 3 hours or more late (a year) | 15 flights/year | - |
The CAA's figures combine arrivals and departures, so this covers both directions of travel.
Swiss Airlines' delays, month by month
Worst month: July 2025, averaging 24.4 minutes.
Where it flies
Swiss Airlines at each UK airport
| Airport | Flights | Avg delay | 3 hours or more late | Landed on time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heathrow | 8,617 | 12.5 min | <0.5% | 72.0% |
| London City | 2,325 | 16.3 min | <0.5% | 61.0% |
| Manchester | 1,726 | 18.6 min | 0.1% | 55.6% |
| Gatwick | 1,023 | 15.2 min | <0.5% | 65.8% |
| Birmingham | 806 | 19.5 min | 0.2% | 51.9% |
How to claim
Claiming from Swiss Airlines
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 Swiss Airlines 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.