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Delayed on easyJet from Gatwick to Madrid?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
1,142
Landed on time
80.2%
Distance apart
1,213 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Gatwick

£220each under UK law

Leaving Madrid

€250each under EU law

Gatwick to Madrid is 1,213 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 easyJet does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Gatwick to Madrid 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 80.2% 81.5%
Average delay 11.8 min 9.5 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.3% 0.2%

Against its own network it is 8.3 points better than usual: easyJet lands on time 71.9% of the time across all 398,684 of its UK flights a year, against 80.2% here.

In money terms: about 3 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 330. Everyone on board one of those is owed £220 each.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 1,213 km, same £220.

Everything we hold on Gatwick to Madrid · 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.