Flights between the UK and Belgium: what a delay is worth

9,709 flights a year 0.3% delayed 3h+

Every route the CAA tracks between the UK and Belgium falls in the same distance band (1,500 km or less), so a delay of 3 hours or more pays a flat £220 per passenger under UK261 if the flight left the UK (€250 under EU261 if it left Belgium instead and the airline was a UK or EU carrier). Find your route below.

Route	Distance	3h+ delay pays
Heathrow → Brussels	350 km	£220
Manchester → Charleroi	562 km	£220
Manchester → Brussels	536 km	£220
Edinburgh → Charleroi	802 km	£220
Edinburgh → Brussels	765 km	£220
Birmingham → Brussels	463 km	£220
Newcastle → Charleroi	655 km	£220
Glasgow → Charleroi	843 km	£220

All 8 tracked UK ↔ Belgium routes, sorted by yearly flight volume. Figures are per passenger under UK261; EU261 pays €250 for the same band.

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In the last 12 months, 9,709 flights operated between the UK and Belgium: 68.6% ran within 15 minutes of schedule, and 0.3% were 3 or more hours late, roughly 29 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 down on last year: 68.6% of flights ran on time against 70.7% in the twelve months before, and the average delay rose from 14.1 to 15.3 minutes.

Flights (12mo)

9,709

On time

68.6%

▼ 2.1pts vs last year

Avg delay

15.3 min

▲ 1.2 min vs last year

3h+ delayed

0.3%

Cancelled

1.6%

Belgium, month by month

22.1m

18.3m

22m

14.8m

13m

15.9m

16.8m

12.1m

9.7m

9.5m

11.7m

15.2m

JulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

Worst month: July 2025, averaging 22.1 minutes.

Busiest routes between the UK and Belgium

UK airport	Destination	Flights	Distance	Avg delay	3h+ %	3h+ delay pays
Heathrow	Brussels	4,723	350 km	14.9 min	0.2%	£220
Manchester	Charleroi	1,949	562 km	13.3 min	0.2%	£220
Manchester	Brussels	1,251	536 km	17.3 min	0.1%	£220
Edinburgh	Charleroi	917	802 km	19.5 min	0.8%	£220
Edinburgh	Brussels	458	765 km	17.1 min	0.7%	£220
Birmingham	Brussels	172	463 km	17.6 min	<0.5%	£220
Newcastle	Charleroi	142	655 km	6.5 min	<0.5%	£220
Glasgow	Charleroi	68	843 km	1.2 min	<0.5%	£220

UK airports flying to Belgium

Airport	Flights	Avg delay	3h+ %	On-time %
Heathrow	4,723	14.9 min	0.2%	67.9%
Manchester	3,200	14.9 min	0.2%	70.2%
Edinburgh	1,375	18.7 min	0.7%	64.5%
Birmingham	172	17.6 min	<0.5%	61.7%
Newcastle	145	6.4 min	<0.5%	86.9%
Glasgow	81	2.3 min	<0.5%	97.5%

Airlines flying between the UK and Belgium

Airline	Flights	Avg delay	3h+ %	On-time %
Brussels Airlines	4,096	18.1 min	0.2%	61.8%
Ryanair	3,078	14.6 min	0.4%	73.1%
British Airways	2,505	11.5 min	0.1%	74.1%

Your rights on this route

Every flight leaving the UK for Belgium is covered by UK261, whichever airline operates it. Flights the other way, landing in the UK from Belgium, 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 Belgium'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.