How much compensation for a delayed UK to Romania flight?
£350 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
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Flights between the UK and Romania are about average for the 71 countries the UK flies to most for 3-hour delays.
- Flights a year
- 20,368
- Routes tracked
- 15
- Land 3 hrs or more late
- 122a 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 Romania 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 Romania instead and the airline was a UK or EU carrier). Find your route below.
| Route | 3 hours or more pays |
|---|---|
| Luton → Bucharest (Otopeni) | £350each |
| Stansted → Bucharest (Otopeni) | £350each |
| Heathrow → Bucharest (Otopeni) | £350each |
| Luton → Iasi | £350each |
| Luton → Cluj Napoca | £350each |
| Luton → Suceava | £350each |
| Luton → Bacau | £350each |
| Birmingham → Bucharest (Otopeni) | £350each |
| Luton → Craiova | £350each |
| Luton → Timisoara | £350each |
| Leeds Bradford → Bucharest (Otopeni) | £350each |
| Luton → Sibiu | £350each |
| Luton → Brasov-Ghimbav | £350each |
| Manchester → Bucharest (Otopeni) | £350each |
| Bristol → Bucharest (Otopeni) | £350each |
All 15 tracked UK ↔ Romania 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 Romania get delayed a lot?
Not especially. They're about average for the 71 countries the UK flies to most, with 0.6% of flights landing 3 or more hours late.
That works out at about 122 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 Romania it's €400 rather than £350, because departures from there fall under the EU version of the rules.
When is it worst?
September 2025, when flights between the UK and Romania ran an average of 24 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Romania
In the last 12 months, 20,368 flights operated between the UK and Romania: 76.9% ran within 15 minutes of schedule, and 0.6% were 3 or more hours late, roughly 122 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: 76.9% ran on time against 71.1% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 19.4 to 14.4 minutes.
Flights (12mo)
20,368
On time
76.9%
▲ 5.8pts vs last year
Avg delay
14.4 min
▼ 5.0 min vs last year
3 hours or more late
0.6%
Cancelled
0.4%
Romania, month by month
Worst month: September 2025, averaging 24 minutes.
Busiest routes between the UK and Romania
| UK airport | Destination | 3 hours or more pays |
|---|---|---|
| Luton | Bucharest (Otopeni) | £350each |
| Stansted | Bucharest (Otopeni) | £350each |
| Heathrow | Bucharest (Otopeni) | £350each |
| Luton | Iasi | £350each |
| Luton | Cluj Napoca | £350each |
| Luton | Suceava | £350each |
| Luton | Bacau | £350each |
| Birmingham | Bucharest (Otopeni) | £350each |
| Luton | Craiova | £350each |
| Luton | Timisoara | £350each |
| Leeds Bradford | Bucharest (Otopeni) | £350each |
| Luton | Sibiu | £350each |
| Luton | Brasov-Ghimbav | £350each |
| Manchester | Bucharest (Otopeni) | £350each |
| Bristol | Bucharest (Otopeni) | £350each |
Where you fly from
UK airports flying to Romania
| Airport | 3 hours or more late | Landed on time |
|---|---|---|
| Luton | 0.7% | 79.3% |
| Stansted | 0.3% | 75.0% |
| Birmingham | 0.9% | 71.5% |
| Heathrow | 0.3% | 75.7% |
| Leeds Bradford | 1.8% | 73.0% |
| Liverpool (John Lennon) | 0.3% | 78.3% |
| Manchester | 0.5% | 68.9% |
| Bristol | 0.7% | 73.8% |
| Edinburgh | 0.3% | 70.3% |
| Gatwick | <0.5% | 37.5% |
Who flies there
Airlines flying between the UK and Romania
| Airline | 3 hours or more late | Landed on time |
|---|---|---|
| Wizz Air | 0.7% | 78.8% |
| Ryanair | 0.5% | 73.2% |
| British Airways | 0.3% | 75.7% |
| Dan Air (Aoc) | 1.4% | 55.1% |
| Hisky Europe | <0.5% | 81.3% |
Your rights
Your rights on this corridor
Every flight leaving the UK for Romania is covered by UK law, whichever airline operates it. Flights the other way, landing in the UK from Romania, 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 Romania'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.