How much compensation for a delayed UK to Malta flight?
£350 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
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Flights between the UK and Malta are better than most of the 71 countries the UK flies to most for 3-hour delays.
- Flights a year
- 12,610
- Routes tracked
- 15
- Land 3 hrs or more late
- 50a year
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
£350each if you land 3 hours or more late
Every route the CAA tracks between the UK and Malta falls in the same distance band (Over 1,500 to 3,500 km), so a delay of 3 hours or more pays a flat £350 each if the flight left the UK (€400 under EU261 if it left Malta instead and the airline was a UK or EU carrier). Find your route below.
| Route | 3 hours or more pays |
|---|---|
| Gatwick → Malta | £350each |
| Manchester → Malta | £350each |
| Stansted → Malta | £350each |
| Heathrow → Malta | £350each |
| Birmingham → Malta | £350each |
| Edinburgh → Malta | £350each |
| Luton → Malta | £350each |
| Liverpool (John Lennon) → Malta | £350each |
| Bristol → Malta | £350each |
| Newcastle → Malta | £350each |
| Glasgow → Malta | £350each |
| Southend → Malta | £350each |
| Bournemouth → Malta | £350each |
| East Midlands International → Malta | £350each |
| Belfast International → Malta | £350each |
All 15 tracked UK ↔ Malta routes, sorted by yearly flight volume. Figures are each; the EU version of the law pays €400 for the same band.
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 Malta 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 50 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 Malta it's €400 rather than £350, because departures from there fall under the EU version of the rules.
When is it worst?
July 2025, when flights between the UK and Malta ran an average of 26.2 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Malta
In the last 12 months, 12,610 flights operated between the UK and Malta: 68.9% ran within 15 minutes of schedule, and 0.4% were 3 or more hours late, roughly 50 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: 68.9% ran on time against 65.2% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 19.7 to 16.7 minutes.
Flights (12mo)
12,610
On time
68.9%
▲ 3.7pts vs last year
Avg delay
16.7 min
▼ 3.0 min vs last year
3 hours or more late
0.4%
Cancelled
0.1%
Malta, month by month
Worst month: July 2025, averaging 26.2 minutes.
Busiest routes between the UK and Malta
| UK airport | Destination | 3 hours or more pays |
|---|---|---|
| Gatwick | Malta | £350each |
| Manchester | Malta | £350each |
| Stansted | Malta | £350each |
| Heathrow | Malta | £350each |
| Birmingham | Malta | £350each |
| Edinburgh | Malta | £350each |
| Luton | Malta | £350each |
| Liverpool (John Lennon) | Malta | £350each |
| Bristol | Malta | £350each |
| Newcastle | Malta | £350each |
| Glasgow | Malta | £350each |
| Southend | Malta | £350each |
| Bournemouth | Malta | £350each |
| East Midlands International | Malta | £350each |
| Belfast International | Malta | £350each |
Where you fly from
UK airports flying to Malta
| Airport | 3 hours or more late | Landed on time |
|---|---|---|
| Gatwick | 0.5% | 69.8% |
| Manchester | 0.7% | 56.3% |
| Stansted | 0.4% | 64.9% |
| Heathrow | 0.3% | 84.2% |
| Birmingham | 0.4% | 66.6% |
| Edinburgh | <0.5% | 64.5% |
| Luton | 0.4% | 56.6% |
| Liverpool (John Lennon) | 0.2% | 78.4% |
| Bristol | 0.8% | 71.9% |
| Newcastle | <0.5% | 76.5% |
| Glasgow | 0.3% | 72.7% |
| Southend | 1.0% | 79.8% |
| Bournemouth | 0.4% | 63.3% |
| East Midlands International | <0.5% | 83.5% |
| Belfast International | <0.5% | 81.0% |
| Leeds Bradford | <0.5% | 83.5% |
Who flies there
Airlines flying between the UK and Malta
| Airline | 3 hours or more late | Landed on time |
|---|---|---|
| Ryanair | 0.3% | 62.2% |
| easyJet | 0.3% | 75.2% |
| Jet2.com | 0.6% | 72.5% |
| Km Malta Airlines | <0.5% | 89.8% |
| British Airways | 0.9% | 61.3% |
| TUI Airways | 1.0% | 33.1% |
| Air Malta | 0.8% | 71.2% |
| Enter Air | <0.5% | 50.0% |
Your rights
Your rights on this corridor
Every flight leaving the UK for Malta is covered by UK law, whichever airline operates it. Flights the other way, landing in the UK from Malta, 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 Malta'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.
From our own tracking
Recent flights from Malta that ran late
Every arrival into the airports we sweep that departed Malta and ran 3 or more hours late, or was cancelled, since August. Newest first, and only flights UK or EU rules cover. A cancelled row carries no figure because what it pays turns on the notice you were given. Amounts are per person on the booking (half on the longest flights that landed 3 to 4 hours late). Airlines can still dispute a claim by proving the cause was outside their control, so check yours for the real answer.
KM Malta Airlines
Luqa → London Heathrow Airport
8 Sept · 19:30
easyJet
Luqa → London Gatwick Airport
29 Aug · 13:45 → 19:40
British Airways
Luqa → London Gatwick Airport
29 Aug · 16:10
Ryanair
Luqa → Manchester Airport
28 Aug · 00:15 → 03:37
easyJet
Luqa → Manchester Airport
28 Aug · 13:35 → 16:39
Delta Air Lines
Luqa → John F. Kennedy International Airport
15 Aug · 14:51
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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.