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Delayed on British Airways from Gatwick to Nice?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
580
Landed on time
48.1%
Land 3 hours or more late
13 a year

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Gatwick

£220each under UK law

Leaving Nice

€250each under EU law

Gatwick to Nice is 1,001 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 British Airways does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Gatwick to Nice 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 British Everyone
Landed on time 48.1% 59.5%
Average delay 35 min 24.8 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 2.2% 1.0%

On this route British Airways is 11.4 points worse than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 10.2 minutes longer.

Against its own network it is 28.8 points worse than usual: British Airways lands on time 76.9% of the time across all 308,727 of its UK flights a year, against 48.1% here.

In money terms: about 13 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 45. Everyone on board one of those is owed £220 each, so a full aircraft is a five-figure bill for British Airways.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 1,001 km, same £220 each.

Airline Landed on time
easyJet 61.9%

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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.