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Delayed on easyJet from Gatwick to Lisbon?

£350each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
2,005
Landed on time
62.7%
Land 3 hrs or more late
16a year

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 easyJet 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 easyJet Everyone
Landed on time 62.7% 63.3%
Average delay 21.5 min 19.8 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.8% 0.5%

easyJet flies 63% 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 9.2 points worse than usual: easyJet lands on time 71.9% of the time across all 398,684 of its UK flights a year, against 62.7% here.

In money terms: about 16 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 130. Everyone on board one of those is owed £350 each, so a full aircraft is a five-figure bill for easyJet.

Other airlines on this route

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

Airline Landed on time
Air Portugal 64.2%

Everything we hold on Gatwick to Lisbon · easyJet 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.