How much compensation for a delayed Vueling Airlines flight?
£220 or £350 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
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Vueling Airlines is about average for the 81 airlines flying at UK airports for 3-hour delays.
- Flights a year
- 21,926
- Landed on time
- 76.5%
- Land 3 hours or more late
- 66 a year
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
The exact figure depends on how far you were flying, and the checker works it out from your route. About 66 Vueling Airlines flights a year cross that line.
The short answer
Getting compensation from Vueling Airlines
If your Vueling flight landed 3 hours or more late, or was cancelled with less than 2 weeks' notice, everyone on the booking may be owed £220 or £350 each from the UK, or about £215 (€250) or £345 (€400) each from Spain, set by distance. Vueling is a Spanish airline, so flights into the UK and the EU are covered as well as flights out, when the cause was within its control.
Is my flight home from Spain covered?
Yes. A flight leaving Spain is covered whichever airline flies it, and pays in euros: about £215 each (€250) for flights up to 1,500 km, such as Barcelona to London, and about £345 each (€400) for flights of 1,500 to 3,500 km, such as Malaga to London.
What if I missed my connection in Barcelona?
If both flights were on one booking, what counts is how late you reached your final destination. Land 3 hours or more late there and the amount is set by the distance of the whole journey, even if the first flight was only a little late.
Does a cancelled Vueling flight count?
Yes, if you were told less than 2 weeks before the flight. You are owed the same as a long delay unless Vueling offered a replacement close to your original times, or the cause was outside its control. You can also choose a full refund instead of a new flight.
How long does a Vueling claim take?
Airlines usually reply within a few weeks. If Vueling refuses or does not answer within eight weeks, you can take the claim further for free, through an approved dispute resolution scheme or the regulator for the country the flight left from.
What it pays
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Vueling Airlines flies from 6 of the UK airports we cover, so there is no single distance and no single figure. Open the one you flew from to see its busiest routes 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 Vueling Airlines get delayed a lot?
Not especially. It's about average for the 81 airlines flying at UK airports, with about 1 flight in 330 landing 3 hours or more late (0.3%).
That works out at about 66 flights a year crossing the 3-hour line, which is the point the airline has to pay.
When is it worst?
September 2025, when Vueling Airlines flights ran an average of 21.8 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Vueling Airlines
In the last 12 months, Vueling Airlines operated 21,926 flights at UK airports, and 0.3% were 3 hours or more late, the threshold where £220 or £350 each becomes payable.
Flights are landing on time more often than last year: 76.5% ran on time against 70.1% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 15.9 to 12.5 minutes.
| Vueling Airlines, last 12 months | Figure | vs year before |
|---|---|---|
| Flights at UK airports | 21,926 | was 23,243 |
| Ran on time (within 15 min) | 76.5% | ▲ was 70.1% |
| Average delay | 12.5 min | ▼ was 15.9 min |
| 3 hours or more late (the line where they pay) | 0.3% | - |
| Cancelled | 0.5% | - |
| Flights 3 hours or more late (a year) | 66 flights/year | - |
The CAA's figures combine arrivals and departures, so this covers both directions of travel.
Vueling Airlines' delays, month by month
Worst month: September 2025, averaging 21.8 minutes.
Where it flies
Vueling Airlines at each UK airport
| Airport | Flights | Avg delay | 3 hours or more late | Landed on time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gatwick | 15,650 | 12.5 min | 0.3% | 76.5% |
| Heathrow | 3,774 | 10.9 min | 0.2% | 79.4% |
| Manchester | 1,088 | 18.4 min | 0.7% | 64.6% |
| Cardiff Wales | 546 | 12.3 min | 0.4% | 77.8% |
| Edinburgh | 444 | 12.1 min | 0.2% | 76.6% |
| Birmingham | 424 | 10.3 min | <0.1% | 79.2% |
From our own tracking
Recent Vueling Airlines flights we logged running late
Every Vueling Airlines flight we logged running 3 hours or more 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. 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. We earn a fee if you claim through a Claim link.
Vueling
Barcelona → Birmingham Airport
13 Oct · due 11:30, landed 15:11
Vueling
Barcelona → Birmingham Airport
5 Oct · due 11:30, landed 14:34
Vueling
Bilbao → London Gatwick Airport
5 Oct · due 12:15
Vueling
Barcelona → London Gatwick Airport
5 Oct · due 13:50
Vueling
Barcelona → London Heathrow Airport
4 Oct · due 09:10
Vueling
Barcelona → Manchester Airport
4 Oct · due 09:10
Vueling
Barcelona → Birmingham Airport
4 Oct · due 09:25
Vueling
Barcelona → London Heathrow Airport
29 Sept · due 09:10
Vueling
Barcelona → London Gatwick Airport
29 Sept · due 12:15
Vueling
Florence → London Gatwick Airport
28 Sept · due 19:10
Vueling
Barcelona → Manchester Airport
27 Sept · due 09:10
Vueling
Barcelona → London Heathrow Airport
17 Sept · due 09:10
Vueling
Alicante → London Gatwick Airport
17 Sept · due 12:20
Vueling
Barcelona → London Gatwick Airport
10 Sept · due 14:45, landed 23:58
Vueling
Santiago de Compostela → London Gatwick Airport
10 Sept · due 22:25
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The daily log
Vueling Airlines delays, day by day
How to claim
Claiming from Vueling 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 leaves from matters most. Anything leaving a UK airport is covered by the UK rules whoever operates it, and anything leaving the EU by the EU's. A flight into the UK or the EU is covered too when a UK or EU airline flies it. A delay of 3 hours or more on arrival pays £220 or £350 each on the distances Vueling 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, August 2025 to July 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.