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Delayed on Sky Express from Gatwick to Athens?

£350each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
722
Landed on time
70.5%
Distance apart
2,393 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Gatwick

£350each under UK law

Leaving Athens

€400each under EU law

Gatwick to Athens is 2,393 km, which fixes the figure: £350 each leaving Gatwick, and €400 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 £1,400.

How Sky Express does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Gatwick to Athens 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 Sky Express Everyone
Landed on time 70.5% 65.1%
Average delay 14.6 min 17.8 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.4% 0.4%

On this route Sky Express is 5.4 points better than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 3.2 minutes shorter.

In money terms: about 3 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 250. Everyone on board one of those is owed £350 each.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 2,393 km, same £350.

Everything we hold on Gatwick to Athens

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.