Delayed on Swiss Airlines from Gatwick to Zurich?
£220each if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 966
- Landed on time
- 62.8%
- Distance apart
- 754 km
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving Gatwick
£220each under UK law
Leaving Zurich
£220each under UK law
Zurich is outside the UK and EU, so coming back this only applies if a UK or EU airline operated the flight.
Gatwick to Zurich is 754 km, which fixes the figure: £220 each leaving Gatwick, and the same £220 each coming back if a UK or EU airline operated the flight. It is per person, so four of you is £880.
How Swiss Airlines does on this route
Better or worse than the route itself?
Everyone flying Gatwick to Zurich 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 Swiss Airlines is 4.5 points worse than the other airlines flying it.
Against its own network it is 4.1 points worse than usual: Swiss Airlines lands on time 66.9% of the time across all 14,610 of its UK flights a year, against 62.8% here.
Other airlines on this route
Same two airports, same 754 km, same £220 each.
Everything we hold on Gatwick to Zurich · Swiss Airlines across every UK airport
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.