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Delayed on Air France from Edinburgh to Paris (Charles de Gaulle)?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
1,923
Landed on time
68.8%
Land 3 hrs or more late
12a year

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Edinburgh

£220each under UK law

Leaving Paris (Charles de Gaulle)

€250each under EU law

Edinburgh to Paris (Charles de Gaulle) is 869 km, which fixes the figure: £220 each leaving Edinburgh, 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 Air France does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Edinburgh to Paris (Charles de Gaulle) 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 Air France Everyone
Landed on time 68.8% 67.0%
Average delay 16.5 min 17.6 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.6% 0.6%

On this route Air France is 1.8 points better than the other airlines flying it.

Against its own network it is about the same as usual: Air France lands on time 68.6% of the time across all 13,558 of its UK flights a year, against 68.8% here.

In money terms: about 12 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 170. Everyone on board one of those is owed £220 each, so a full aircraft is a five-figure bill for Air France.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 869 km, same £220.

Airline Landed on time
easyJet 65.1%

Everything we hold on Edinburgh to Paris (Charles de Gaulle) · Air France 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.