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Delayed on Ryanair from Liverpool (John Lennon) to Dublin?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
3,467
Landed on time
81.8%
Land 3 hrs or more late
17a year

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Liverpool (John Lennon)

£220each under UK law

Leaving Dublin

€250each under EU law

Liverpool (John Lennon) to Dublin is 227 km, which fixes the figure: £220 each leaving Liverpool (John Lennon), 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 Ryanair does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Liverpool (John Lennon) to Dublin 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 Ryanair Everyone
Landed on time 81.8% 80.3%
Average delay 9.9 min 11.8 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.5% 0.7%

Ryanair flies 73% of this route, so the right-hand column is mostly its own flights being averaged back at it. The comparison that means something here is against the rest of its network.

Against its own network it is 10.7 points better than usual: Ryanair lands on time 71.1% of the time across all 348,181 of its UK flights a year, against 81.8% here.

In money terms: about 17 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 £220 each, so a full aircraft is a five-figure bill for Ryanair.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 227 km, same £220.

Airline Landed on time
Aer Lingus 76.4%

Everything we hold on Liverpool (John Lennon) to Dublin · Ryanair 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.