Delayed on Wizz Air from Gatwick to Faro?
£350each if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 694
- Landed on time
- 65.0%
- Distance apart
- 1,688 km
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving Gatwick
£350each under UK law
Leaving Faro
€400each under EU law
Gatwick to Faro is 1,688 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 Wizz Air does on this route
Better or worse than the route itself?
Everyone flying Gatwick to Faro 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 Wizz Air is 7 points worse than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 4.8 minutes longer.
Against its own network it is 11.3 points worse than usual: Wizz Air lands on time 76.3% of the time across all 55,842 of its UK flights a year, against 65.0% here.
In money terms: about 7 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 100. Everyone on board one of those is owed £350 each.
Other airlines on this route
Same two airports, same 1,688 km, same £350.
Everything we hold on Gatwick to Faro · Wizz Air 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.