Flights between the UK and Cyprus: what a delay is worth
Cyprus 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 → Larnaca | £350 |
| Heathrow → Larnaca | £350 |
| Gatwick → Paphos | £350 |
| Manchester → Paphos | £350 |
| Stansted → Paphos | £350 |
| Luton → Larnaca | £350 |
| Manchester → Larnaca | £350 |
| Birmingham → Paphos | £350 |
| Birmingham → Larnaca | £350 |
| Bristol → Paphos | £350 |
| Newcastle → Paphos | £350 |
| Bristol → Larnaca | £350 |
| East Midlands International → Paphos | £350 |
| Luton → Paphos | £350 |
| Edinburgh → Paphos | £520 |
All 15 tracked UK ↔ Cyprus routes, sorted by yearly flight volume. Figures are per passenger under UK261; EU261 pays €400 or €600 for the same two bands.
In the last 12 months, 18,378 flights operated between the UK and Cyprus: 61.8% ran within 15 minutes of schedule, and 0.5% were 3 or more hours late, roughly 92 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: 61.8% of flights ran on time against 60.2% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 22.8 to 20.2 minutes.
Flights (12mo)
18,378
On time
61.8%
▲ 1.6pts vs last year
Avg delay
20.2 min
▼ 2.6 min vs last year
3h+ delayed
0.5%
Cancelled
0.6%
Cyprus, month by month
Worst month: July 2025, averaging 29.9 minutes.
Busiest routes between the UK and Cyprus
| UK airport | Destination | 3h+ delay pays |
|---|---|---|
| Gatwick | Larnaca | £350 |
| Heathrow | Larnaca | £350 |
| Gatwick | Paphos | £350 |
| Manchester | Paphos | £350 |
| Stansted | Paphos | £350 |
| Luton | Larnaca | £350 |
| Manchester | Larnaca | £350 |
| Birmingham | Paphos | £350 |
| Birmingham | Larnaca | £350 |
| Bristol | Paphos | £350 |
| Newcastle | Paphos | £350 |
| Bristol | Larnaca | £350 |
| East Midlands International | Paphos | £350 |
| Luton | Paphos | £350 |
| Edinburgh | Paphos | £520 |
UK airports flying to Cyprus
| Airport | 3h+ % | On-time % |
|---|---|---|
| Gatwick | 0.7% | 62.0% |
| Heathrow | 0.6% | 77.4% |
| Manchester | 0.5% | 44.9% |
| Stansted | 0.2% | 65.3% |
| Birmingham | 0.5% | 53.2% |
| Luton | 0.5% | 70.1% |
| Bristol | 0.5% | 56.4% |
| Newcastle | 0.1% | 56.7% |
| East Midlands International | 0.3% | 64.9% |
| Leeds Bradford | 0.2% | 59.6% |
| Glasgow | 1.2% | 59.2% |
| Edinburgh | 0.2% | 65.5% |
| Liverpool (John Lennon) | <0.5% | 77.9% |
| Belfast International | <0.5% | 62.5% |
| Cardiff Wales | 1.8% | 53.6% |
| Exeter | <0.5% | 79.8% |
| Bournemouth | <0.5% | 63.3% |
Airlines flying between the UK and Cyprus
| Airline | 3h+ % | On-time % |
|---|---|---|
| Jet2.com | 0.3% | 54.2% |
| easyJet | 0.3% | 58.4% |
| TUI Airways | 0.8% | 57.4% |
| British Airways | 0.8% | 75.3% |
| Wizz Air | 0.8% | 75.3% |
| Ryanair | 0.3% | 62.9% |
Your rights on this route
Every flight leaving the UK for Cyprus is covered by UK261, whichever airline operates it. Flights the other way, landing in the UK from Cyprus, 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 Cyprus'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.