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Flights a year
1,858
Landed on time
76.5%
Distance apart
1,645 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Gatwick

£350each under UK law

Leaving Malaga

€400each under EU law

Gatwick to Malaga is 1,645 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 Vueling Airlines does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Gatwick to Malaga 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 Vueling Everyone
Landed on time 76.5% 72.5%
Average delay 12.9 min 15.9 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.5% 0.7%

On this route Vueling Airlines is 4 points better than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 3 minutes shorter.

Against its own network it is about the same as usual: Vueling Airlines lands on time 76.5% of the time across all 21,926 of its UK flights a year, against 76.5% here.

In money terms: about 9 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 200. Everyone on board one of those is owed £350 each.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 1,645 km, same £350 each.

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Vueling Airlines flights between Gatwick and Malaga

Vueling Airlines flights we saw on this route in the last week. Tap yours, add your date, and we'll check it.

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Source: UK Civil Aviation Authority punctuality statistics, August 2025 to July 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.