How much compensation for a delayed Edinburgh to Amsterdam flight?
£220each if you land 3 hours or more late (€250 flying home from Netherlands)
This route is about average for 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 Edinburgh
£220each under UK law
Leaving Amsterdam
€250each under EU law
Amsterdam 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.
Edinburgh and Amsterdam are 666 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 Amsterdam: €250, €500, €1,000. Everyone with their own seat is paid, children included.
What it pays
Every way a Edinburgh to Amsterdam 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?
Not especially. It's about average for Britain's 200 busiest routes, with about 1 flight in 200 landing 3 or more hours late (0.5%).
That works out at about 24 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 26.2 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.
U27837
easyJet
Amsterdam → Edinburgh Airport
14 Aug · 20:20
U27837
easyJet
Amsterdam → Edinburgh Airport
24 Aug · 18:45
KL927
KLM
Amsterdam → Edinburgh Airport
26 Aug · 12:20
KL923
KLM
Amsterdam → Edinburgh Airport
30 Aug · 08:30
U27837
easyJet
Amsterdam → Edinburgh Airport
31 Aug · 18:45
KL931
KLM
Amsterdam → Edinburgh Airport
4 Sept · 16:10
U23304
easyJet
Amsterdam → Edinburgh Airport
21 Sept · 13:35
KL927
KLM
Amsterdam → Edinburgh Airport
23 Sept · 12:20
KL923
KLM
Amsterdam → Edinburgh Airport
28 Sept · 08:30
KL923
KLM
Amsterdam → Edinburgh Airport
29 Sept · 08:30
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See all the numbers for this route
In the last 12 months, 4,721 flights operated between Edinburgh and Amsterdam, and 0.5% 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: 69.7% ran on time against 70.0% in the twelve months before, and the average delay rose from 14.9 to 15.6 minutes.
| Edinburgh to Amsterdam, last 12 months | Figure | vs year before |
|---|---|---|
| Flights on this route | 4,721 | was 4,806 |
| Ran on time (within 15 min) | 69.7% | ▼ was 70.0% |
| Average delay | 15.6 min | ▲ was 14.9 min |
| 3 hours or more late (the line where they pay) | 0.5% | - |
| Cancelled | 2.8% | - |
| Flights 3 hours or more late (a year) | 24 flights/year | - |
The CAA's figures don't separate arrivals from departures, so this covers the route both ways.
Edinburgh to Amsterdam, month by month
Worst month: January 2026, averaging 26.2 minutes.
Airlines on this route
Airlines flying this route
Your rights
Your rights on this route
Every flight leaving Edinburgh for Amsterdam is covered by UK law, whichever airline operates it. Flights the other way, leaving Amsterdam for Edinburgh, 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 Netherlands? See every route between the UK and Netherlands.
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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.