How much compensation for a delayed Wizz Air flight from Gatwick?
£220 to £520 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 10,721
- Landed on time
- 67.9%
- Land 3 hrs or more late
- 107a 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 107 flights a year on this one cross the 3-hour line.
What it pays
What Wizz Air 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 or £2,080.
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How bad is it
Does Wizz Air get delayed a lot at Gatwick?
1.0% of Wizz Air's 10,721 flights a year at Gatwick land 3 or more hours late, which works out at about 107 flights a year crossing the line where the airline has to pay.
When is it worst?
September 2025, when Wizz Air flights at Gatwick ran an average of 32.9 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Wizz Air at Gatwick
In the last 12 months, Wizz Air operated 10,721 flights at Gatwick, and 1.0% were 3 or more hours late, the threshold where £220 to £520 each becomes payable.
Flights are landing on time more often than last year: 67.9% ran on time against 65.1% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 23.1 to 19.5 minutes.
| Wizz Air at Gatwick, last 12 months | Figure | vs year before |
|---|---|---|
| Flights at Gatwick | 10,721 | was 15,302 |
| Ran on time (within 15 min) | 67.9% | ▲ was 65.1% |
| Average delay | 19.5 min | ▼ was 23.1 min |
| 3 hours or more late (the line where they pay) | 1.0% | - |
| Cancelled | 1.0% | - |
| Flights 3 hours or more late (a year) | 107 flights/year | - |
The CAA's figures combine arrivals and departures, so this covers traffic both ways, not departures alone.
Wizz Air at Gatwick, month by month
Worst month: September 2025, averaging 32.9 minutes.
Route by route
Wizz Air's busiest routes at Gatwick
| Destination | Flights | Distance | Avg delay | 3 hours or more late | 3 hours or more pays |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Krakow | 850 | 1,410 km | 13.3 min | 0.1% | £220each |
| Budapest | 821 | 1,465 km | 23.4 min | 1.0% | £220each |
| Istanbul | 817 | 2,460 km | 17.4 min | 1.0% | £350each |
| Malaga | 724 | 1,645 km | 9.2 min | 0.3% | £350each |
| Faro | 694 | 1,688 km | 19.9 min | 1.0% | £350each |
| Larnaca | 668 | 3,247 km | 16.8 min | 1.0% | £350each |
| Jeddah | 589 | 4,714 km | 30.8 min | 1.5% | £520each |
| Prague | 476 | 1,024 km | 16.2 min | 0.6% | £220each |
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.
Wizz Air 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.