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Delayed on KLM from Bristol to Amsterdam?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
2,618
Landed on time
63.3%
Land 3 hrs or more late
24a year

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Bristol

£220each under UK law

Leaving Amsterdam

€250each under EU law

Bristol to Amsterdam is 524 km, which fixes the figure: £220 each leaving Bristol, 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 does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Bristol 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 Everyone
Landed on time 63.3% 67.0%
Average delay 20.9 min 18.3 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.9% 0.7%

KLM flies 61% 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 7.1 points worse than usual: KLM lands on time 70.4% of the time across all 34,017 of its UK flights a year, against 63.3% here.

In money terms: about 2 flights a month on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 110. Everyone on board one of those is owed £220 each, so a full aircraft is a five-figure bill for KLM.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 524 km, same £220.

Airline Landed on time
easyJet 72.8%

Everything we hold on Bristol to Amsterdam · KLM 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.