Flights between the UK and Croatia: what a delay is worth
Croatia 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 |
|---|---|
| Gatwick → Dubrovnik | £350 |
| Gatwick → Split | £220 |
| Stansted → Zagreb | £220 |
| Luton → Split | £350 |
| Stansted → Dubrovnik | £350 |
| Heathrow → Zagreb | £220 |
| Manchester → Dubrovnik | £350 |
| Heathrow → Split | £350 |
| Manchester → Split | £350 |
| Bristol → Split | £350 |
| Heathrow → Dubrovnik | £350 |
| Bristol → Dubrovnik | £350 |
| Stansted → Zadar | £220 |
| Gatwick → Pula | £220 |
| Birmingham → Dubrovnik | £350 |
All 15 tracked UK ↔ Croatia 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, 13,111 flights operated between the UK and Croatia: 69.7% ran within 15 minutes of schedule, and 0.6% were 3 or more hours late, roughly 79 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: 69.7% of flights ran on time against 63.1% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 21.7 to 17.1 minutes.
Flights (12mo)
13,111
On time
69.7%
▲ 6.6pts vs last year
Avg delay
17.1 min
▼ 4.6 min vs last year
3h+ delayed
0.6%
Cancelled
0.4%
Croatia, month by month
Worst month: July 2025, averaging 21.4 minutes.
Busiest routes between the UK and Croatia
| UK airport | Destination | 3h+ delay pays |
|---|---|---|
| Gatwick | Dubrovnik | £350 |
| Gatwick | Split | £220 |
| Stansted | Zagreb | £220 |
| Luton | Split | £350 |
| Stansted | Dubrovnik | £350 |
| Heathrow | Zagreb | £220 |
| Manchester | Dubrovnik | £350 |
| Heathrow | Split | £350 |
| Manchester | Split | £350 |
| Bristol | Split | £350 |
| Heathrow | Dubrovnik | £350 |
| Bristol | Dubrovnik | £350 |
| Stansted | Zadar | £220 |
| Gatwick | Pula | £220 |
| Birmingham | Dubrovnik | £350 |
UK airports flying to Croatia
| Airport | 3h+ % | On-time % |
|---|---|---|
| Gatwick | 1.0% | 67.4% |
| Stansted | 0.7% | 67.7% |
| Heathrow | 0.6% | 64.0% |
| Manchester | 0.6% | 64.7% |
| Luton | 0.1% | 73.7% |
| Bristol | 0.1% | 78.9% |
| Birmingham | <0.5% | 72.9% |
| Edinburgh | 0.8% | 84.6% |
| Leeds Bradford | 0.5% | 73.8% |
| Newcastle | <0.5% | 89.4% |
| Glasgow | <0.5% | 81.8% |
| East Midlands International | 0.6% | 79.7% |
| Liverpool (John Lennon) | 1.2% | 72.9% |
| Bournemouth | <0.5% | 62.3% |
| Belfast International | 1.7% | 85.0% |
| Cardiff Wales | <0.5% | 66.7% |
| London City | <0.5% | 47.9% |
Airlines flying between the UK and Croatia
| Airline | 3h+ % | On-time % |
|---|---|---|
| easyJet | 0.6% | 72.3% |
| Ryanair | 0.6% | 65.2% |
| Jet2.com | 0.3% | 79.3% |
| British Airways | 1.0% | 69.3% |
| TUI Airways | 0.7% | 65.2% |
| Croatia Airlines | 0.8% | 44.8% |
| Wizz Air | <0.5% | 72.6% |
| Enter Air | <0.5% | 70.6% |
| BA CityFlyer | <0.5% | 47.9% |
Your rights on this route
Every flight leaving the UK for Croatia is covered by UK261, whichever airline operates it. Flights the other way, landing in the UK from Croatia, 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 Croatia'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.