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Delayed on KLM Cityhopper from Aberdeen to Amsterdam?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
2,684
Landed on time
79.4%
Distance apart
703 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Aberdeen

£220each under UK law

Leaving Amsterdam

€250each under EU law

Aberdeen to Amsterdam is 703 km, which fixes the figure: £220 each leaving Aberdeen, and €250 each coming back the other way, because that leg departs under the EU's version of the rules. It is per person, so four of you is £880.

How KLM Cityhopper does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Aberdeen to Amsterdam hits the same airspace and the same two airports, so the honest question is not whether the route is busy, it is whether this airline handles it better or worse than the others on it.

On this route KLM Cityhopper Everyone
Landed on time 79.4% 77.0%
Average delay 11.9 min 11.5 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.3% 0.3%

KLM Cityhopper flies 82% of this route, so the right-hand column is mostly its own flights being averaged back at it. The comparison that means something here is against the rest of its network.

Against its own network it is 2.3 points better than usual: KLM Cityhopper lands on time 77.1% of the time across all 6,097 of its UK flights a year, against 79.4% here.

In money terms: about 8 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 330. Everyone on board one of those is owed £220 each.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 703 km, same £220.

Airline Landed on time
KLM 65.8%

Everything we hold on Aberdeen to Amsterdam · KLM Cityhopper across every UK airport

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.