How much compensation for a delayed UK to Turkey flight?
£350 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
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Flights between the UK and Turkey are better than most of the 71 countries the UK flies to most for 3-hour delays.
- Flights a year
- 66,744
- Routes tracked
- 15
- Land 3 hrs or more late
- 267a 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 Turkey 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 Turkey instead and the airline was a UK or EU carrier). Find your route below.
| Route | 3 hours or more pays |
|---|---|
| Heathrow → Istanbul | £350each |
| Stansted → Istanbul (Sabiha Gokcen) | £350each |
| Manchester → Antalya | £350each |
| Gatwick → Antalya | £350each |
| Gatwick → Istanbul | £350each |
| Manchester → Istanbul | £350each |
| Gatwick → Dalaman | £350each |
| Manchester → Dalaman | £350each |
| Stansted → Antalya | £350each |
| Birmingham → Antalya | £350each |
| Birmingham → Istanbul | £350each |
| Stansted → Izmir (Adnan Menderes) | £350each |
| Birmingham → Dalaman | £350each |
| Manchester → Istanbul (Sabiha Gokcen) | £350each |
| Luton → Antalya | £350each |
All 15 tracked UK ↔ Turkey 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 Turkey 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 267 flights a year crossing the 3-hour line, which is the point the airline has to pay.
When is it worst?
July 2025, when flights between the UK and Turkey ran an average of 24.8 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Turkey
In the last 12 months, 66,744 flights operated between the UK and Turkey: 66.0% ran within 15 minutes of schedule, and 0.4% were 3 or more hours late, roughly 267 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: 66.0% ran on time against 61.4% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 21.6 to 17.7 minutes.
Flights (12mo)
66,744
On time
66.0%
▲ 4.6pts vs last year
Avg delay
17.7 min
▼ 3.9 min vs last year
3 hours or more late
0.4%
Cancelled
0.5%
Turkey, month by month
Worst month: July 2025, averaging 24.8 minutes.
Busiest routes between the UK and Turkey
| UK airport | Destination | 3 hours or more pays |
|---|---|---|
| Heathrow | Istanbul | £350each |
| Stansted | Istanbul (Sabiha Gokcen) | £350each |
| Manchester | Antalya | £350each |
| Gatwick | Antalya | £350each |
| Gatwick | Istanbul | £350each |
| Manchester | Istanbul | £350each |
| Gatwick | Dalaman | £350each |
| Manchester | Dalaman | £350each |
| Stansted | Antalya | £350each |
| Birmingham | Antalya | £350each |
| Birmingham | Istanbul | £350each |
| Stansted | Izmir (Adnan Menderes) | £350each |
| Birmingham | Dalaman | £350each |
| Manchester | Istanbul (Sabiha Gokcen) | £350each |
| Luton | Antalya | £350each |
Where you fly from
UK airports flying to Turkey
| Airport | 3 hours or more late | Landed on time |
|---|---|---|
| Stansted | 0.3% | 69.8% |
| Manchester | 0.5% | 58.6% |
| Gatwick | 0.6% | 64.0% |
| Heathrow | 0.2% | 77.6% |
| Birmingham | 0.5% | 62.0% |
| Edinburgh | 0.3% | 68.4% |
| Luton | 0.6% | 67.8% |
| Bristol | 0.4% | 55.3% |
| Newcastle | 0.2% | 71.5% |
| Glasgow | 0.5% | 67.9% |
| Liverpool (John Lennon) | 0.1% | 76.7% |
| Leeds Bradford | 0.4% | 62.2% |
| East Midlands International | 0.2% | 64.8% |
| Belfast International | 0.8% | 62.2% |
| Bournemouth | 0.7% | 45.9% |
| Southend | <0.5% | 76.7% |
| Cardiff Wales | 0.4% | 64.0% |
| Exeter | 0.6% | 65.2% |
| Aberdeen | 1.1% | 72.2% |
Who flies there
Airlines flying between the UK and Turkey
| Airline | 3 hours or more late | Landed on time |
|---|---|---|
| Jet2.com | 0.5% | 55.2% |
| Turkish Airlines | 0.2% | 73.3% |
| easyJet | 0.5% | 61.6% |
| Sunexpress | 0.3% | 68.2% |
| Pegasus Airlines | 0.4% | 68.6% |
| TUI Airways | 0.8% | 58.4% |
| British Airways | 0.3% | 75.8% |
| Wizz Air | 0.9% | 74.0% |
| AJet | <0.5% | 72.8% |
| Corendon Airlines | 1.4% | 70.3% |
| Ryanair | 1.7% | 67.6% |
| Freebird Airlines | 0.5% | 73.3% |
Your rights
Your rights on this corridor
Every flight leaving the UK for Turkey is covered by UK law, whichever airline operates it. Flights the other way, landing in the UK from Turkey, 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 Turkey'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 Turkey that ran late
Every arrival into the airports we sweep that departed Turkey 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.
Jet2
Bodrum → Glasgow Airport
5 Oct · 02:30 → 12:56
Jet2
Antalya → Manchester Airport
4 Oct · 02:40 → 19:45
British Airways
Istanbul → London Heathrow Airport
1 Oct · 10:30
Southwind
Antalya → London Stansted Airport
30 Sept · 12:35
Jet2
Bodrum → Glasgow Airport
28 Sept · 01:10 → 12:31
Southwind
Antalya → London Stansted Airport
26 Sept · 12:35
Southwind
Antalya → London Stansted Airport
23 Sept · 12:35
Jet2
Antalya → Manchester Airport
20 Sept · 02:40 → 20:17
Jet2
Bodrum → Manchester Airport
20 Sept · 02:30 → 18:48
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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.