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

85,987 flights a year 0.3% delayed 3h+

Every route the CAA tracks between the UK and Germany 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 Germany instead and the airline was a UK or EU carrier). Find your route below.

Route	Distance	3h+ delay pays
Heathrow → Frankfurt Main	654 km	£220
Heathrow → Munich	941 km	£220
Heathrow → Dusseldorf	502 km	£220
Heathrow → Berlin Brandenburg	961 km	£220
Heathrow → Hamburg	745 km	£220
Heathrow → Stuttgart	756 km	£220
Manchester → Frankfurt Main	832 km	£220
Stansted → Berlin Brandenburg	906 km	£220
London City → Frankfurt Main	620 km	£220
Manchester → Munich	1,130 km	£220
London City → Berlin Brandenburg	925 km	£220
Stansted → Cologne Bonn	492 km	£220
Birmingham → Frankfurt Main	766 km	£220
Gatwick → Berlin Brandenburg	950 km	£220
Heathrow → Cologne Bonn	534 km	£220

All 15 tracked UK ↔ Germany 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, 85,987 flights operated between the UK and Germany: 72.2% ran within 15 minutes of schedule, and 0.3% were 3 or more hours late, roughly 258 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: 72.2% of flights ran on time against 70.1% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 15 to 13.8 minutes.

Flights (12mo)

85,987

On time

72.2%

▲ 2.1pts vs last year

Avg delay

13.8 min

▼ 1.2 min vs last year

3h+ delayed

0.3%

Cancelled

1.7%

Germany, month by month

18.5m

14.3m

19.5m

14.1m

14.4m

18.2m

11.5m

8.6m

7.7m

12m

17.4m

JulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

Worst month: September 2025, averaging 19.5 minutes.

Busiest routes between the UK and Germany

UK airport	Destination	Flights	Distance	Avg delay	3h+ %	3h+ delay pays
Heathrow	Frankfurt Main	10,535	654 km	11.6 min	0.1%	£220
Heathrow	Munich	9,374	941 km	11.7 min	0.1%	£220
Heathrow	Dusseldorf	5,705	502 km	11.4 min	0.2%	£220
Heathrow	Berlin Brandenburg	4,857	961 km	11.5 min	0.4%	£220
Heathrow	Hamburg	4,494	745 km	13.1 min	0.3%	£220
Heathrow	Stuttgart	2,847	756 km	13.8 min	0.1%	£220
Manchester	Frankfurt Main	2,593	832 km	14.2 min	0.1%	£220
Stansted	Berlin Brandenburg	2,385	906 km	14.8 min	0.5%	£220
London City	Frankfurt Main	2,203	620 km	11.6 min	0.3%	£220
Manchester	Munich	2,176	1,130 km	19.2 min	0.4%	£220
London City	Berlin Brandenburg	2,146	925 km	13.9 min	0.1%	£220
Stansted	Cologne Bonn	2,045	492 km	16.2 min	0.3%	£220
Birmingham	Frankfurt Main	2,024	766 km	13.9 min	0.3%	£220
Gatwick	Berlin Brandenburg	1,934	950 km	13.6 min	0.5%	£220
Heathrow	Cologne Bonn	1,914	534 km	15 min	0.3%	£220

UK airports flying to Germany

Airport	Flights	Avg delay	3h+ %	On-time %
Heathrow	41,127	12 min	0.2%	75.1%
Stansted	11,341	15.9 min	0.4%	71.9%
Manchester	9,820	17.5 min	0.3%	64.0%
Edinburgh	5,455	16.5 min	0.4%	65.0%
Gatwick	5,095	13.8 min	0.3%	73.8%
Birmingham	4,844	14.4 min	0.2%	68.5%
London City	4,355	12.7 min	0.2%	74.5%
Glasgow	1,174	10.6 min	0.2%	76.8%
Newcastle	804	13.7 min	0.1%	68.1%
Bristol	739	15.4 min	<0.5%	68.1%
Luton	636	14.2 min	0.8%	73.8%
Liverpool (John Lennon)	164	5.6 min	0.6%	91.4%
East Midlands International	140	15.7 min	1.4%	70.0%
Southend	137	10.2 min	0.7%	80.6%
Jersey	93	32.5 min	<0.5%	41.9%
Leeds Bradford	43	18.6 min	2.3%	76.7%

Airlines flying between the UK and Germany

Airline	Flights	Avg delay	3h+ %	On-time %
Lufthansa	24,860	13.1 min	0.1%	70.2%
British Airways	18,784	10.9 min	0.3%	79.3%
Ryanair	14,852	16.7 min	0.4%	70.0%
Eurowings Luftverkehrs	13,382	14.7 min	0.2%	69.3%
easyJet	8,412	16.2 min	0.3%	69.2%
BA CityFlyer	3,061	13.4 min	0.3%	74.2%
Air Dolomiti	1,483	11.9 min	<0.5%	73.8%
Condor	540	11.2 min	0.4%	80.3%
Jet2.com	223	19.4 min	0.9%	70.0%
Wizz Air	136	5.7 min	<0.5%	86.8%
Med-View Airline	116	24.3 min	<0.5%	48.3%

Your rights on this route

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