Delayed on Aer Lingus from Heathrow to Cork?
£220each if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 2,889
- Landed on time
- 85.7%
- Distance apart
- 555 km
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving Heathrow
£220each under UK law
Leaving Cork
€250each under EU law
Heathrow to Cork is 555 km, which fixes the figure: £220 each leaving Heathrow, 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 Aer Lingus does on this route
Aer Lingus is the only airline we track on this route
Nobody else we hold data for flies Heathrow to Cork, so these are the route's numbers as well as Aer Lingus's. The comparison worth making is against the rest of its own network, below.
Against its own network it is 12.3 points better than usual: Aer Lingus lands on time 73.4% of the time across all 52,206 of its UK flights a year, against 85.7% here.
In money terms: about 3 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 1,000. Everyone on board one of those is owed £220 each.
Everything we hold on Heathrow to Cork · Aer Lingus 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.