Flights between the UK and Hungary: what a delay is worth
Hungary 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 |
|---|---|
| Stansted → Budapest | £220 |
| Heathrow → Budapest | £220 |
| Luton → Budapest | £220 |
| Gatwick → Budapest | £220 |
| Manchester → Budapest | £350 |
| Edinburgh → Budapest | £350 |
| Birmingham → Budapest | £350 |
| Bristol → Budapest | £350 |
| Luton → Debrecen | £350 |
| Liverpool (John Lennon) → Budapest | £350 |
| Newcastle → Budapest | £350 |
| East Midlands International → Budapest | £350 |
| Belfast International → Budapest | £350 |
| Leeds Bradford → Budapest | £350 |
| Glasgow → Budapest | £350 |
All 15 tracked UK ↔ Hungary 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, 13,708 flights operated between the UK and Hungary: 75.1% ran within 15 minutes of schedule, and 0.4% were 3 or more hours late, roughly 55 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: 75.1% of flights ran on time against 70.0% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 18.6 to 14.1 minutes.
Flights (12mo)
13,708
On time
75.1%
▲ 5.1pts vs last year
Avg delay
14.1 min
▼ 4.5 min vs last year
3h+ delayed
0.4%
Cancelled
0.3%
Hungary, month by month
Worst month: July 2025, averaging 21.7 minutes.
Busiest routes between the UK and Hungary
| UK airport | Destination | 3h+ delay pays |
|---|---|---|
| Stansted | Budapest | £220 |
| Heathrow | Budapest | £220 |
| Luton | Budapest | £220 |
| Gatwick | Budapest | £220 |
| Manchester | Budapest | £350 |
| Edinburgh | Budapest | £350 |
| Birmingham | Budapest | £350 |
| Bristol | Budapest | £350 |
| Luton | Debrecen | £350 |
| Liverpool (John Lennon) | Budapest | £350 |
| Newcastle | Budapest | £350 |
| East Midlands International | Budapest | £350 |
| Belfast International | Budapest | £350 |
| Leeds Bradford | Budapest | £350 |
| Glasgow | Budapest | £350 |
UK airports flying to Hungary
| Airport | 3h+ % | On-time % |
|---|---|---|
| Stansted | 0.3% | 75.3% |
| Heathrow | 0.3% | 79.4% |
| Luton | 0.4% | 76.0% |
| Gatwick | 0.5% | 70.8% |
| Manchester | 0.1% | 67.4% |
| Edinburgh | 0.3% | 74.1% |
| Birmingham | 1.1% | 68.6% |
| Bristol | 0.3% | 73.2% |
| Liverpool (John Lennon) | <0.5% | 88.0% |
| Newcastle | 0.4% | 85.6% |
| East Midlands International | 0.9% | 89.6% |
| Belfast International | 1.1% | 73.7% |
| Leeds Bradford | 0.7% | 75.7% |
| Glasgow | 1.0% | 65.6% |
Airlines flying between the UK and Hungary
| Airline | 3h+ % | On-time % |
|---|---|---|
| Ryanair | 0.3% | 75.7% |
| Wizz Air | 0.6% | 73.8% |
| British Airways | 0.3% | 79.4% |
| Jet2.com | 0.7% | 66.0% |
| easyJet | <0.5% | 76.8% |
| TUI Airways | <0.5% | 60.3% |
Your rights on this route
Every flight leaving the UK for Hungary is covered by UK261, whichever airline operates it. Flights the other way, landing in the UK from Hungary, 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 Hungary'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.