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How much compensation for a delayed UK to Lithuania flight?

£220 or £350 each, if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights between the UK and Lithuania are better than most of the 71 countries the UK flies to most for 3-hour delays.

Flights a year
5,902
Routes tracked
10
Land 3 hrs or more late
24a year

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

£220 or £350each if you land 3 hours or more late

Lithuania 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 3 hours or more pays
Luton → Kaunas £350each
Luton → Vilnius £350each
Stansted → Vilnius £350each
Stansted → Kaunas £350each
Stansted → Palanga £220each
Liverpool (John Lennon) → Kaunas £350each
London City → Vilnius £350each
Bristol → Kaunas £350each
Edinburgh → Kaunas £350each
Belfast International → Kaunas £350each

All 10 tracked UK ↔ Lithuania routes, sorted by yearly flight volume. Figures are each; the EU version of the law pays €250 or €400 for the same two bands.

The figure is payable only when the delay was within the airline's control. A technical fault, a crew shortage or a late inbound aircraft all count; genuinely extraordinary circumstances such as severe weather or an air traffic control restriction do not.

How bad is it

Do flights between the UK and Lithuania get delayed a lot?

No, less than most. They're better than most of the 71 countries the UK flies to most, with 0.4% of flights landing 3 or more hours late.

That works out at about 24 flights a year crossing the 3-hour line, which is the point the airline has to pay.

Flying home rather than out?

Coming back from Lithuania it's €250 or €400 rather than £220 or £350, because departures from there fall under the EU version of the rules.

When is it worst?

January 2026, when flights between the UK and Lithuania ran an average of 18.2 minutes late.

See all the numbers for Lithuania

In the last 12 months, 5,902 flights operated between the UK and Lithuania: 77.3% ran within 15 minutes of schedule, and 0.4% were 3 or more hours late, roughly 24 flights' worth of eligible passengers in a year. The CAA's figures don't separate arrivals from departures, so this covers the corridor both ways.

Flights are landing on time more often than last year: 77.3% ran on time against 75.7% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 13.9 to 12.4 minutes.

Flights (12mo)

5,902

On time

77.3%

▲ 1.6pts vs last year

Avg delay

12.4 min

▼ 1.5 min vs last year

3 hours or more late

0.4%

Cancelled

0.1%

Lithuania, month by month

13.6m
12.9m
16.4m
13.7m
13.3m
13.8m
18.2m
9.4m
8.4m
6.6m
8.2m
12.6m
JulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

Worst month: January 2026, averaging 18.2 minutes.

Busiest routes between the UK and Lithuania

UK airport Destination 3 hours or more pays
Luton Kaunas £350each
Luton Vilnius £350each
Stansted Vilnius £350each
Stansted Kaunas £350each
Stansted Palanga £220each
Liverpool (John Lennon) Kaunas £350each
London City Vilnius £350each
Bristol Kaunas £350each
Edinburgh Kaunas £350each
Belfast International Kaunas £350each

Where you fly from

UK airports flying to Lithuania

Airport 3 hours or more late Landed on time
Luton 0.2% 82.6%
Stansted 0.9% 70.4%
Liverpool (John Lennon) <0.5% 85.6%
London City <0.5% 69.8%
Bristol 0.6% 80.9%
Edinburgh <0.5% 72.6%
Belfast International <0.5% 79.6%

Who flies there

Airlines flying between the UK and Lithuania

Airline 3 hours or more late Landed on time
Ryanair 0.5% 75.1%
Wizz Air 0.1% 88.9%
LOT Polish Airlines <0.5% 69.8%

Your rights

Your rights on this corridor

Every flight leaving the UK for Lithuania is covered by UK law, whichever airline operates it. Flights the other way, landing in the UK from Lithuania, are covered too if a UK or EU airline operated them; a return flight on a non-UK, non-EU carrier falls outside it, though the Montreal Convention and Lithuania'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. Methodology and limitations.