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Delayed on Aer Lingus from Birmingham to Dublin?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
3,921
Landed on time
68.6%
Land 3 hrs or more late
27a year

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Birmingham

£220each under UK law

Leaving Dublin

€250each under EU law

Birmingham to Dublin is 321 km, which fixes the figure: £220 each leaving Birmingham, 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 Aer Lingus does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Birmingham to Dublin 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 Aer Lingus Everyone
Landed on time 68.6% 70.5%
Average delay 16.3 min 15.6 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.7% 0.6%

On this route Aer Lingus is 1.9 points worse than the other airlines flying it.

Against its own network it is 4.8 points worse than usual: Aer Lingus lands on time 73.4% of the time across all 52,206 of its UK flights a year, against 68.6% here.

In money terms: about 2 flights a month on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 140. Everyone on board one of those is owed £220 each, so a full aircraft is a five-figure bill for Aer Lingus.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 321 km, same £220.

Airline Landed on time
Ryanair 72.4%

Everything we hold on Birmingham to Dublin · Aer Lingus 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.