Delayed on KLM from London City to Amsterdam?
£220each if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 4,230
- Landed on time
- 75.2%
- Distance apart
- 335 km
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving London City
£220each under UK law
Leaving Amsterdam
€250each under EU law
London City to Amsterdam is 335 km, which fixes the figure: £220 each leaving London City, 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 KLM does on this route
Better or worse than the route itself?
Everyone flying London City to Amsterdam 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.
Against its own network it is 4.8 points better than usual: KLM lands on time 70.4% of the time across all 34,017 of its UK flights a year, against 75.2% here.
In money terms: about 4 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.
Other airlines on this route
Same two airports, same 335 km, same £220.
Everything we hold on London City to Amsterdam · KLM 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.