How much compensation for a delayed Birmingham to Paris (Charles de Gaulle) flight?
£220each if you land 3 hours or more late (€250 flying home from France)
This route is better than most of Britain's 200 busiest routes for 3-hour delays.
Claim firms take a success fee, typically 20-30% plus VAT, and more again if the case has to go legal. On £220 that leaves you about £100 to £165. A claim firm only gets paid if it wins, so lose and you pay nothing.
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What you're owed
Leaving Birmingham
£220each under UK law
Leaving Paris (Charles de Gaulle)
€250each under EU law
Paris (Charles de Gaulle) is in the EU, so this applies whichever airline you fly.
Either 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.
Birmingham and Paris (Charles de Gaulle) are 488 km apart (1,500 km or less), and that distance is all that decides the amount. Which figure applies depends only on which end of the route you departed from, not which way you were travelling.
How many were on the booking
£220 each. £880 for a family of four.
Flying home from Paris (Charles de Gaulle): €250, €500, €1,000. Everyone with their own seat is paid, children included.
What it pays
Every way a Birmingham to Paris (Charles de Gaulle) flight can pay you
Find the line that matches what happened to you. The money is the same whether you landed 3 hours late or 9, because it is the distance that sets the price, not the wait.
How close the replacement flight has to be before a cancellation stops paying.
How bad is this route
Does this route get delayed a lot?
No, less than most. It's better than most of Britain's 200 busiest routes, with about 1 flight in 500 landing 3 or more hours late (0.2%).
That works out at about 6 flights a year crossing the 3-hour line, which is the point the airline has to pay.
When is it worst?
January 2026, when flights on this route ran an average of 21.3 minutes late.
From our own tracking
Recent delays on this route
Every flight on this route we logged running 3 or more hours late, or cancelled, since August. Each row shows the direction it actually flew, and only flights UK or EU rules cover are listed, so you may see far more of one heading than the other. The amount is what UK or EU rules pay that passenger, per person on the booking: usually the full rate for the distance, and half of it on the longest flights that landed between 3 and 4 hours late. Airlines can still dispute a claim by proving the cause was outside their control, so check yours to get the real answer.
U26606
easyJet
Paris → Birmingham Airport
27 Aug · 21:55
U26606
easyJet
Paris → Birmingham Airport
29 Aug · 11:05
AF1064
Air France
Paris → Birmingham Airport
8 Sept · 17:50
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See all the numbers for this route
In the last 12 months, 3,214 flights operated between Birmingham and Paris (Charles de Gaulle), and 0.2% were 3 or more hours late, the threshold where £220 each becomes payable under UK261 (€250 under EU261).
Flights are landing on time less often than last year: 68.6% ran on time against 76.8% in the twelve months before, and the average delay rose from 11.7 to 15.3 minutes.
| Birmingham to Paris (Charles de Gaulle), last 12 months | Figure | vs year before |
|---|---|---|
| Flights on this route | 3,214 | was 3,125 |
| Ran on time (within 15 min) | 68.6% | ▼ was 76.8% |
| Average delay | 15.3 min | ▲ was 11.7 min |
| 3 hours or more late (the line where they pay) | 0.2% | - |
| Cancelled | 1.6% | - |
| Flights 3 hours or more late (a year) | 6 flights/year | - |
The CAA's figures don't separate arrivals from departures, so this covers the route both ways.
Birmingham to Paris (Charles de Gaulle), month by month
Worst month: January 2026, averaging 21.3 minutes.
Airlines on this route
Airlines flying this route
| Airline | 3 hrs or more late3 hours or more late | Landed on time | If late |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air France | 0.3% | 69.1% | £220each |
| easyJet | 0.1% | 67.6% | £220each |
Your rights
Your rights on this route
Every flight leaving Birmingham for Paris (Charles de Gaulle) is covered by UK law, whichever airline operates it. Flights the other way, leaving Paris (Charles de Gaulle) for Birmingham, are covered too if a UK or EU airline operated them; a flight that way on a non-UK, non-EU carrier falls outside it, though the Montreal Convention 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. Flying somewhere else in France? See every route between the UK and France.
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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.