How much compensation for a delayed Vueling Airlines flight from Gatwick?
£220 or £350 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 15,913
- Landed on time
- 74.5%
- Land 3 hrs or more late
- 64a 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 64 flights a year on this one cross the 3-hour line.
What it pays
What Vueling Airlines owes you from Gatwick
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 Gatwick?
0.4% of Vueling Airlines' 15,913 flights a year at Gatwick land 3 or more hours late, which works out at about 64 flights a year crossing the line where the airline has to pay.
When is it worst?
July 2025, when Vueling Airlines flights at Gatwick ran an average of 26 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Vueling Airlines at Gatwick
In the last 12 months, Vueling Airlines operated 15,913 flights at Gatwick, and 0.4% 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: 74.5% ran on time against 71.7% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 15.1 to 13.7 minutes.
| Vueling Airlines at Gatwick, last 12 months | Figure | vs year before |
|---|---|---|
| Flights at Gatwick | 15,913 | was 18,350 |
| Ran on time (within 15 min) | 74.5% | ▲ was 71.7% |
| Average delay | 13.7 min | ▼ was 15.1 min |
| 3 hours or more late (the line where they pay) | 0.4% | - |
| Cancelled | 0.8% | - |
| Flights 3 hours or more late (a year) | 64 flights/year | - |
The CAA's figures combine arrivals and departures, so this covers traffic both ways, not departures alone.
Vueling Airlines at Gatwick, month by month
Worst month: July 2025, averaging 26 minutes.
Route by route
Vueling Airlines' busiest routes at Gatwick
| Destination | Flights | Distance | Avg delay | 3 hours or more late | 3 hours or more pays |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barcelona | 5,129 | 1,109 km | 15.7 min | 0.6% | £220each |
| Bilbao | 2,054 | 896 km | 8.2 min | 0.1% | £220each |
| Malaga | 1,868 | 1,645 km | 13.8 min | 0.4% | £350each |
| Florence | 1,528 | 1,180 km | 14.4 min | 0.5% | £220each |
| Seville | 1,116 | 1,592 km | 8.7 min | 0.1% | £350each |
| Paris (Orly) | 1,050 | 325 km | 8.6 min | <0.5% | £220each |
| Alicante | 882 | 1,431 km | 18.1 min | 0.5% | £220each |
| Rome (Fiumicino) | 602 | 1,406 km | 25.5 min | 0.2% | £220each |
From our own tracking
Recent Vueling Airlines flights into Gatwick that ran late
Every Vueling Airlines arrival at Gatwick 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.
Vueling
Barcelona → London Gatwick Airport
29 Sept · 12:15
Vueling
Barcelona → London Gatwick Airport
10 Sept · 14:45 → 23:58
Vueling
Santiago de Compostela → London Gatwick Airport
10 Sept · 22:25
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Your rights
Your rights on this route
Gatwick 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 Gatwick
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.