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Delayed on Emerald Airlines from Bristol to Dublin?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
1,890
Landed on time
72.9%
Land 3 hrs or more late
15a year

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Bristol

£220each under UK law

Leaving Dublin

€250each under EU law

Bristol to Dublin is 331 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 Emerald Airlines does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Bristol 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 Emerald Everyone
Landed on time 72.9% 73.3%
Average delay 16 min 15.1 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.8% 0.4%

Against its own network it is about the same as usual: Emerald Airlines lands on time 73.7% of the time across all 19,982 of its UK flights a year, against 72.9% here.

In money terms: about 15 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 130. Everyone on board one of those is owed £220 each, so a full aircraft is a five-figure bill for Emerald Airlines.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 331 km, same £220.

Airline Landed on time
Ryanair 73.7%

Everything we hold on Bristol to Dublin · Emerald Airlines 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.