Delayed on Vueling Airlines from Gatwick to Barcelona?
£220each if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 5,129
- Landed on time
- 71.3%
- Land 3 hrs or more late
- 31a year
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving Gatwick
£220each under UK law
Leaving Barcelona
€250each under EU law
Gatwick to Barcelona is 1,109 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 Vueling Airlines does on this route
Better or worse than the route itself?
Everyone flying Gatwick to Barcelona 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.
Vueling Airlines flies 65% of this route, so the right-hand column is mostly its own flights being averaged back at it. The comparison that means something here is against the rest of its network.
Against its own network it is 3.4 points worse than usual: Vueling Airlines lands on time 74.7% of the time across all 22,110 of its UK flights a year, against 71.3% here.
In money terms: about 3 flights a month 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 Vueling Airlines.
Other airlines on this route
Same two airports, same 1,109 km, same £220.
Everything we hold on Gatwick to Barcelona · Vueling 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.