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

14,325 flights a year 0.3% delayed 3h+

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

Route	Distance	3h+ delay pays
Heathrow → Stockholm (Arlanda)	1,463 km	£220
Gatwick → Stockholm (Arlanda)	1,475 km	£220
Stansted → Goteborg (Landvetter)	1,002 km	£220
Heathrow → Goteborg (Landvetter)	1,069 km	£220
Stansted → Stockholm (Arlanda)	1,396 km	£220
Manchester → Stockholm (Arlanda)	1,416 km	£220
Edinburgh → Stockholm (Arlanda)	1,321 km	£220
Manchester → Goteborg (Landvetter)	1,032 km	£220
Stansted → Vasteras	1,331 km	£220
Edinburgh → Goteborg (Landvetter)	969 km	£220
Gatwick → Goteborg (Landvetter)	1,081 km	£220
Birmingham → Stockholm (Arlanda)	1,452 km	£220
Gatwick → Scandinavian Mountains Airport	1,370 km	£220
Stansted → Malmo	953 km	£220
Stansted → Orebro	1,233 km	£220

All 15 tracked UK ↔ Sweden 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, 14,325 flights operated between the UK and Sweden: 79.1% ran within 15 minutes of schedule, and 0.3% were 3 or more hours late, roughly 43 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: 79.1% of flights ran on time against 74.7% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 13.3 to 11.1 minutes.

Flights (12mo)

14,325

On time

79.1%

▲ 4.4pts vs last year

Avg delay

11.1 min

▼ 2.2 min vs last year

3h+ delayed

0.3%

Cancelled

0.6%

Sweden, month by month

13.2m

11.5m

16.6m

10.6m

8.5m

13.4m

16.9m

8.7m

7.1m

8.1m

14m

JulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

Worst month: January 2026, averaging 16.9 minutes.

Busiest routes between the UK and Sweden

UK airport	Destination	Flights	Distance	Avg delay	3h+ %	3h+ delay pays
Heathrow	Stockholm (Arlanda)	5,774	1,463 km	7.9 min	0.1%	£220
Gatwick	Stockholm (Arlanda)	1,831	1,475 km	9.5 min	0.3%	£220
Stansted	Goteborg (Landvetter)	1,461	1,002 km	13.8 min	0.3%	£220
Heathrow	Goteborg (Landvetter)	1,247	1,069 km	10 min	0.5%	£220
Stansted	Stockholm (Arlanda)	1,028	1,396 km	16.4 min	0.7%	£220
Manchester	Stockholm (Arlanda)	825	1,416 km	13.5 min	<0.5%	£220
Edinburgh	Stockholm (Arlanda)	699	1,321 km	8.8 min	0.1%	£220
Manchester	Goteborg (Landvetter)	468	1,032 km	32.7 min	3.4%	£220
Stansted	Vasteras	211	1,331 km	8.5 min	0.5%	£220
Edinburgh	Goteborg (Landvetter)	188	969 km	15.7 min	<0.5%	£220
Gatwick	Goteborg (Landvetter)	186	1,081 km	6.9 min	<0.5%	£220
Birmingham	Stockholm (Arlanda)	166	1,452 km	19.5 min	<0.5%	£220
Gatwick	Scandinavian Mountains Airport	65	1,370 km	16.1 min	<0.5%	£220
Stansted	Malmo	52	953 km	7 min	<0.5%	£220
Stansted	Orebro	52	1,233 km	34 min	<0.5%	£220

UK airports flying to Sweden

Airport	Flights	Avg delay	3h+ %	On-time %
Heathrow	7,026	8.3 min	0.2%	83.7%
Stansted	2,806	14.7 min	0.4%	73.2%
Gatwick	2,088	9.5 min	0.2%	80.7%
Manchester	1,322	20.3 min	1.2%	67.7%
Edinburgh	887	10.3 min	0.1%	77.9%
Birmingham	168	19.5 min	<0.5%	63.1%

Airlines flying between the UK and Sweden

Airline	Flights	Avg delay	3h+ %	On-time %
SAS	3,880	8.1 min	0.1%	82.6%
British Airways	3,744	9.8 min	0.2%	81.6%
Ryanair	3,623	17.2 min	0.8%	71.3%
Norwegian	2,349	9.6 min	0.2%	80.8%
Scandinavian Airlines Ireland	592	6.1 min	<0.5%	86.8%
easyJet	60	16 min	<0.5%	58.5%

Your rights on this route

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