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Delayed on TUI Airways from Gatwick to Tenerife South (Reina Sofia)?

£350each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
651
Landed on time
59.6%
Distance apart
2,913 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Gatwick

£350each under UK law

Leaving Tenerife South (Reina Sofia)

€400each under EU law

Gatwick to Tenerife South (Reina Sofia) is 2,913 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 TUI Airways does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Gatwick to Tenerife South (Reina Sofia) 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 TUI Airways Everyone
Landed on time 59.6% 70.6%
Average delay 25.4 min 15.9 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.6% 0.2%

On this route TUI Airways is 11 points worse than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 9.5 minutes longer.

Against its own network it is about the same as usual: TUI Airways lands on time 58.6% of the time across all 61,005 of its UK flights a year, against 59.6% here.

In money terms: about 4 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 170. Everyone on board one of those is owed £350 each.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 2,913 km, same £350.

Everything we hold on Gatwick to Tenerife South (Reina Sofia) · TUI Airways 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.