How much compensation for a delayed UK to Austria flight?
£220 or £350 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
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Flights between the UK and Austria are better than most of the 71 countries the UK flies to most for 3-hour delays.
- Flights a year
- 16,253
- Routes tracked
- 15
- Land 3 hrs or more late
- 65a year
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
£220 or £350each if you land 3 hours or more late
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 | 3 hours or more pays |
|---|---|
| Heathrow → Vienna | £220each |
| Stansted → Vienna | £220each |
| Gatwick → Innsbruck | £220each |
| Gatwick → Salzburg | £220each |
| Manchester → Vienna | £220each |
| Stansted → Salzburg | £220each |
| Edinburgh → Vienna | £350each |
| Gatwick → Vienna | £220each |
| Manchester → Innsbruck | £220each |
| Luton → Vienna | £220each |
| Stansted → Klagenfurt | £220each |
| Stansted → Linz | £220each |
| Manchester → Salzburg | £220each |
| Heathrow → Innsbruck | £220each |
| Birmingham → Innsbruck | £220each |
All 15 tracked UK ↔ Austria routes, sorted by yearly flight volume. Figures are each; the EU version of the law pays €250 or €400 for the same two bands.
The figure is payable only when the delay was within the airline's control. A technical fault, a crew shortage or a late inbound aircraft all count; genuinely extraordinary circumstances such as severe weather or an air traffic control restriction do not.
How bad is it
Do flights between the UK and Austria get delayed a lot?
No, less than most. They're better than most of the 71 countries the UK flies to most, with 0.4% of flights landing 3 or more hours late.
That works out at about 65 flights a year crossing the 3-hour line, which is the point the airline has to pay.
Flying home rather than out?
Coming back from Austria it's €250 or €400 rather than £220 or £350, because departures from there fall under the EU version of the rules.
When is it worst?
July 2025, when flights between the UK and Austria ran an average of 23.6 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Austria
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 corridor both ways.
Flights are landing on time more often than last year: 73.6% 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
3 hours or more late
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 | 3 hours or more pays |
|---|---|---|
| Heathrow | Vienna | £220each |
| Stansted | Vienna | £220each |
| Gatwick | Innsbruck | £220each |
| Gatwick | Salzburg | £220each |
| Manchester | Vienna | £220each |
| Stansted | Salzburg | £220each |
| Edinburgh | Vienna | £350each |
| Gatwick | Vienna | £220each |
| Manchester | Innsbruck | £220each |
| Luton | Vienna | £220each |
| Stansted | Klagenfurt | £220each |
| Stansted | Linz | £220each |
| Manchester | Salzburg | £220each |
| Heathrow | Innsbruck | £220each |
| Birmingham | Innsbruck | £220each |
Where you fly from
UK airports flying to Austria
| Airport | 3 hours or more late | Landed 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% |
Who flies there
Airlines flying between the UK and Austria
| Airline | 3 hours or more late | Landed 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
Your rights on this corridor
Every flight leaving the UK for Austria is covered by UK law, 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 it, 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.
From our own tracking
Recent flights from Austria that ran late
Every arrival into the airports we sweep that departed Austria and ran 3 or more hours late, or was 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.
Austrian Airlines
Vienna → London Heathrow Airport
6 Oct · 08:20 → 11:23
British Airways
Vienna → London Heathrow Airport
4 Oct · 09:00 → 12:32
TUI Airways
Vienna → London Gatwick Airport
21 Sept · 14:40
British Airways
Salzburg → London Gatwick Airport
14 Sept · 13:25
British Airways
Vienna → London Heathrow Airport
9 Sept · 09:15
Austrian Airlines
Vienna → London Heathrow Airport
8 Sept · 18:40
Austrian Airlines
Vienna → London Heathrow Airport
8 Sept · 21:40
Austrian Airlines
Vienna → John F. Kennedy International Airport
31 Aug · 20:05 → 00:06
Ryanair
Vienna → London Stansted Airport
13 Aug · 16:05 → 19:08
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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. Methodology and limitations.