How much compensation for a delayed Vueling Airlines flight from Cardiff Wales?
£220 or £350 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 564
- Landed on time
- 76.6%
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
£220 or £350each if a delay of 3 hours or more hits
It is rare on this one: fewer than 1 in 200 flights land late enough to pay.
What it pays
What Vueling Airlines owes you from Cardiff Wales
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 Vueling Airlines get delayed a lot at Cardiff Wales?
fewer than 1 in 200 flights of Vueling Airlines' 564 flights a year at Cardiff Wales land 3 or more hours late. Rare, but the payout is the same when it happens.
When is it worst?
August 2025, when Vueling Airlines flights at Cardiff Wales ran an average of 18.8 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Vueling Airlines at Cardiff Wales
In the last 12 months, Vueling Airlines operated 564 flights at Cardiff Wales, and fewer than 1 in 200 flights were 3 or more hours late, the threshold where £220 or £350 each becomes payable.
Flights are landing on time less often than last year: 76.6% ran on time against 76.9% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 13 to 11.7 minutes.
| Vueling Airlines at Cardiff Wales, last 12 months | Figure | vs year before |
|---|---|---|
| Flights at Cardiff Wales | 564 | was 483 |
| Ran on time (within 15 min) | 76.6% | ▼ was 76.9% |
| Average delay | 11.7 min | ▼ was 13 min |
| 3 hours or more late (the line where they pay) | <0.5% | - |
| Cancelled | 0.4% | - |
| Flights 3 hours or more late (a year) | rare | - |
The CAA's figures combine arrivals and departures, so this covers traffic both ways, not departures alone.
Vueling Airlines at Cardiff Wales, month by month
Worst month: August 2025, averaging 18.8 minutes.
Route by route
Vueling Airlines' busiest routes at Cardiff Wales
| Destination | Flights | Distance | Avg delay | 3 hours or more late | 3 hours or more pays |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicante | 304 | 1,474 km | 11.3 min | <0.5% | £220each |
| Malaga | 240 | 1,640 km | 11.9 min | <0.5% | £350each |
Your rights
Your rights on this route
Cardiff Wales 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.
Vueling Airlines from other airports
Other airlines at Cardiff Wales
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.