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Flights a year
1,834
Landed on time
69.5%
Distance apart
766 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Birmingham

£220each under UK law

Leaving Frankfurt Main

€250each under EU law

Birmingham to Frankfurt Main is 766 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 Lufthansa does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Birmingham to Frankfurt Main 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 Lufthansa Everyone
Landed on time 69.5% 70.1%
Average delay 13.8 min 13.5 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.3% 0.3%

Lufthansa flies 92% 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 about the same as usual: Lufthansa lands on time 70.9% of the time across all 24,592 of its UK flights a year, against 69.5% here.

In money terms: about 6 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 766 km, same £220 each.

Airline Landed on time
Air Dolomiti 76.7%

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Lufthansa flights between Birmingham and Frankfurt Main

Lufthansa flights we saw on this route in the last week. Tap yours, add your date, and we'll check it.

Leaving Birmingham for Frankfurt Main · take-off time

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Source: UK Civil Aviation Authority punctuality statistics, August 2025 to July 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.