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£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
839
Landed on time
54.4%
Distance apart
1,475 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Birmingham

£220each under UK law

Leaving Palma de Mallorca

€250each under EU law

Birmingham to Palma de Mallorca is 1,475 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 Jet2.com does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Birmingham to Palma de Mallorca 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 Jet2.com Everyone
Landed on time 54.4% 54.7%
Average delay 25.6 min 26 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.2% 0.7%

Against its own network it is 12.3 points worse than usual: Jet2.com lands on time 66.7% of the time across all 125,825 of its UK flights a year, against 54.4% here.

In money terms: about 2 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 500. Everyone on board one of those is owed £220 each.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 1,475 km, same £220.

Everything we hold on Birmingham to Palma de Mallorca · Jet2.com 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.