Flights between the UK and Austria: what a delay is worth
Austria isn't one distance from the UK, so what a 3-hour-plus delay pays depends on the route. Find your route below, or check your flight for an exact answer.
| Route | 3h+ delay pays |
|---|---|
| Heathrow → Vienna | £220 |
| Stansted → Vienna | £220 |
| Gatwick → Innsbruck | £220 |
| Gatwick → Salzburg | £220 |
| Manchester → Vienna | £220 |
| Stansted → Salzburg | £220 |
| Edinburgh → Vienna | £350 |
| Gatwick → Vienna | £220 |
| Manchester → Innsbruck | £220 |
| Luton → Vienna | £220 |
| Stansted → Klagenfurt | £220 |
| Stansted → Linz | £220 |
| Manchester → Salzburg | £220 |
| Heathrow → Innsbruck | £220 |
| Birmingham → Innsbruck | £220 |
All 15 tracked UK ↔ Austria routes, sorted by yearly flight volume. Figures are per passenger under UK261; EU261 pays €250 or €400 for the same two bands.
In the last 12 months, 16,253 flights operated between the UK and Austria: 73.6% ran within 15 minutes of schedule, and 0.4% were 3 or more hours late, roughly 65 flights' worth of eligible passengers in a year. The CAA's figures don't separate arrivals from departures, so this covers the route both ways.
Punctuality is up on last year: 73.6% of flights ran on time against 71.6% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 17.3 to 14.7 minutes.
Flights (12mo)
16,253
On time
73.6%
▲ 2.0pts vs last year
Avg delay
14.7 min
▼ 2.6 min vs last year
3h+ delayed
0.4%
Cancelled
0.4%
Austria, month by month
Worst month: July 2025, averaging 23.6 minutes.
Busiest routes between the UK and Austria
| UK airport | Destination | 3h+ delay pays |
|---|---|---|
| Heathrow | Vienna | £220 |
| Stansted | Vienna | £220 |
| Gatwick | Innsbruck | £220 |
| Gatwick | Salzburg | £220 |
| Manchester | Vienna | £220 |
| Stansted | Salzburg | £220 |
| Edinburgh | Vienna | £350 |
| Gatwick | Vienna | £220 |
| Manchester | Innsbruck | £220 |
| Luton | Vienna | £220 |
| Stansted | Klagenfurt | £220 |
| Stansted | Linz | £220 |
| Manchester | Salzburg | £220 |
| Heathrow | Innsbruck | £220 |
| Birmingham | Innsbruck | £220 |
UK airports flying to Austria
| Airport | 3h+ % | On-time % |
|---|---|---|
| Heathrow | 0.1% | 79.1% |
| Stansted | 0.6% | 64.5% |
| Gatwick | 0.5% | 75.9% |
| Manchester | 0.8% | 64.3% |
| Edinburgh | 0.4% | 65.0% |
| Luton | 0.9% | 79.5% |
| Birmingham | 0.5% | 76.9% |
| Bristol | 0.6% | 79.9% |
| Newcastle | 1.0% | 78.0% |
| Liverpool (John Lennon) | 2.2% | 82.2% |
| Glasgow | 1.3% | 76.6% |
| Belfast International | <0.5% | 67.6% |
| Leeds Bradford | <0.5% | 82.7% |
Airlines flying between the UK and Austria
| Airline | 3h+ % | On-time % |
|---|---|---|
| Ryanair | 0.7% | 64.5% |
| British Airways | 0.3% | 81.6% |
| Austrian Airlines | 0.1% | 75.9% |
| easyJet | 0.3% | 81.0% |
| Jet2.com | 0.4% | 68.6% |
| TUI Airways | 0.8% | 67.1% |
| Wizz Air | 1.2% | 67.9% |
| BA CityFlyer | <0.5% | 70.8% |
Your rights on this route
Every flight leaving the UK for Austria is covered by UK261, whichever airline operates it. Flights the other way, landing in the UK from Austria, are covered too if a UK or EU airline operated them; a return flight on a non-UK, non-EU carrier falls outside UK261, though the Montreal Convention and Austria's own rules may still give you a claim. See the full breakdown on the 3-hour rule. Cancelled instead of delayed? Broadly the same amounts apply under different conditions. See cancelled flight compensation.
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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.