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Delayed on Wizz Air from Gatwick to Larnaca?

£350each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
668
Landed on time
67.8%
Distance apart
3,247 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Gatwick

£350each under UK law

Leaving Larnaca

€400each under EU law

Gatwick to Larnaca is 3,247 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 Larnaca 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 Everyone
Landed on time 67.8% 60.8%
Average delay 16.8 min 20.7 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 1.0% 1.0%

On this route Wizz Air is 7 points better than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 3.9 minutes shorter.

Against its own network it is 8.5 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 67.8% 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 3,247 km, same £350.

Everything we hold on Gatwick to Larnaca · 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.