Delayed on Vueling Airlines from Gatwick to Bilbao?
£220each if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 2,054
- Landed on time
- 84.1%
- Distance apart
- 896 km
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving Gatwick
£220each under UK law
Leaving Bilbao
€250each under EU law
Gatwick to Bilbao is 896 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
Vueling Airlines is the only airline we track on this route
Nobody else we hold data for flies Gatwick to Bilbao, so these are the route's numbers as well as Vueling Airlines's. The comparison worth making is against the rest of its own network, below.
Against its own network it is 9.4 points better than usual: Vueling Airlines lands on time 74.7% of the time across all 22,110 of its UK flights a year, against 84.1% here.
In money terms: about 2 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 1,000. Everyone on board one of those is owed £220 each.
Everything we hold on Gatwick to Bilbao · 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.