Delayed on easyJet from Gatwick to Alicante?
£220each if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 2,859
- Landed on time
- 70.1%
- Distance apart
- 1,431 km
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving Gatwick
£220each under UK law
Leaving Alicante
€250each under EU law
Gatwick to Alicante is 1,431 km, which fixes the figure: £220 each leaving Gatwick, 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 easyJet does on this route
Better or worse than the route itself?
Everyone flying Gatwick to Alicante 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.
Against its own network it is 1.8 points worse than usual: easyJet lands on time 71.9% of the time across all 398,684 of its UK flights a year, against 70.1% here.
In money terms: about 9 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 330. Everyone on board one of those is owed £220 each.
Other airlines on this route
Same two airports, same 1,431 km, same £220.
Everything we hold on Gatwick to Alicante · easyJet 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.