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Delayed on Air Portugal from Gatwick to Lisbon?

£350each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
1,167
Landed on time
64.2%
Distance apart
1,542 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Gatwick

£350each under UK law

Leaving Lisbon

€400each under EU law

Gatwick to Lisbon is 1,542 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 Air Portugal does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Gatwick to Lisbon 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 Air Portugal Everyone
Landed on time 64.2% 63.3%
Average delay 16.8 min 19.8 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.0% 0.5%

Against its own network it is 1.9 points better than usual: Air Portugal lands on time 62.3% of the time across all 7,644 of its UK flights a year, against 64.2% here.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 1,542 km, same £350.

Airline Landed on time
easyJet 62.7%

Everything we hold on Gatwick to Lisbon · Air Portugal 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.